AERO-UA Consortium Partners

The AERO-UA consortium is comprised of key EU and UA aviation organisations that will collaborate closely to achieve the project’s high-level objectives.

European partners

Intelligentsia Consultants, Luxembourg (Coordinator)
Intelligentsia Consultants provides high quality, practical, knowledge-based consultancy services to support science, technology and innovation in the public and private sectors. Intelligentsia has extensive experience in managing public funded R&D related projects. The company is located in Luxembourg. Its service portfolio is focused on five key areas: innovation management; technology transfer; policy analysis and design; evaluation and impact assessment; and information and communication services.

Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation, Germany
Fraunhofer Institute for Factory Operation and Automation concentrates its research and development on virtual engineering, logistics, material handling engineering and systems, automation and plant engineering. Fraunhofer-IFF has been collaborating with KhAI in these topics since the early 2000s (e.g. FP7 KhAI-ERA). They are eager to expand these activities across the field of aerospace in Ukraine. Recently, Fraunhofer-IFF coordinated the FP7 VALERI that developed new mobile robots for aircraft component manufacturing operations. Also, they are involved in H2020 e-Airport looking to improve airport logistics.

TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS, Poland
TECPAR is a scientific research and implementation organisation specialised in innovation management and in the performance of large-scale interdisciplinary research projects with special focus on aerospace. It is very eager to explore cooperation possibilities and launch new projects with Ukraine, which has high capabilities in this domain.
ITWL, a member of the Technology Partners Consortium, has been already cooperating with Ukrainian partners for over 7 years. Currently it contemplates to launch new, large-scale initiatives with Ukrainian partners. The participation in this project would allow ITWL to gain a better understanding of the Ukrainian capabilities and prepare detailed concepts for research cooperation under European frameworks.

University of Manchester, UK
UoM’s Aerospace Research Institute pushes the boundaries of aerospace through cutting-edge and cross-disciplinary research. The mission of the Institute is to gain full benefit from the University’s diverse research capability and to be internationally recognised as a centre of excellence in aerospace research and innovation. Due to the historically independent nature of the Ukrainian aerospace industry, UoM see a valuable opportunity for knowledge exchange of different scientific and engineering methods that will enhance the technical skillset of their staff. Also, Ukrainian research is novel within the English-speaking world thus presenting a mutually beneficial occasion for joint publications with UoM in high-impact journals.

Ukrainian partners

Ivchenko-Progress, Zaporozhye
SE Ivchenko-Progress is the representative of Ukrainian aviation engines development and manufacturing sector. It is highly motivated to participate in the project to facilitate creation of new partnerships between European and Ukrainian relevant R&D communities. It will help to encourage joint participations in new projects aimed on increasing of competitiveness, profitability, environmental compatibility, reliability and durability of aero-engines. The project activities will also favour the development and extension of mutually advantageous communications with the European companies for creation and application of promising aero-engines for new flight vehicles, creation of new materials and technological processes for aviation applications.

FED, Kharkov
In AERO.UA consortium the Public Joint Stock Company “FED” represents Ukrainian aerospace cluster “Mechatronics”, which is a group of 20+ Ukrainian industrial enterprises, companies and R&D institutions that work in aerospace field (like ANTONOV SE, MOTOR SICH JSC, Hartron PJSC, etc.) It is motivated to take part in AERO.UA project activities to promote interests of all members of the cluster. This project will help to establish new links with European industrial and research communities, as well as to facilitate coherence of UA aviation stakeholders’ activities to European priorities. It is believed that Ukrainian aerospace players have good potential to contribute to achievement of high-level goals set-up before aviation sector at European level.

Ukrainian Research Institute of Aviation Technology, Kyiv
UkrRIAT has a great experience in aircraft production and manufacturing processes development and has close ties with all Ukrainian players in this area. During its history it has been closely collaborated with industrial enterprises and companies from Russia, China, Iran, etc. However current political situation makes some international collaborations rather difficult, especially in the area of aircraft manufacturing, and Ukraine’s orientation to Europe opens new opportunities for Ukrainian companies and institutes to find ways of cooperation with European partners, in other words to set up a new cooperative model. UkrRIAT considers that research, development, engineering and production works in the area of aviation could become a core of this new cooperative model. Thus, UkrRIAT is strongly motivated to identify barriers for cooperation, and find the ways to overcome them.

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv
The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU) as the largest scientific organization of Ukraine is strongly involved in a wide range of fundamental and applied research. Since the middle of the last century material science and its aerospace applications were priorities for the NASU. Long-term cooperation of the NASU with Antonov Design Office (aircraft) and Yuzhnoye State Design Office (launchers) continues now. Relevant scientific schools of the NASU are recognized in the world and its developments could be used in EU products. But still one of the biggest problems which hamper an integration of Ukraine into the European Research Area is a lack of networking with EU partners. Regarding the abovementioned NASU expects that this project will facilitate identification of potential EU partners and deepening of mutually beneficial cooperation between Ukrainian research institutes and European research community in the field of aviation.

National Aerospace University “KhAI”, Kharkov
KhAI is research-intensive aerospace university and plays an important role in aerospace S&T development of Ukraine: it provides sustainable generation of a new knowledge due to the high-level research potential, and offers excellent education in aerospace field. KhAI is rather experienced in European collaborative research among Ukrainian institutions and companies. Since 2006 it has been participating in a number of FP6 and FP7 projects (incl. 6 aerospace-related ones), and over 45 FP7 and H2020 proposals were submitted with active involvement of KhAI (2008-2015). But it has still low participation compared to the general European level, and like other Ukrainian research actors still suffers from the lack of links with key European aviation players, especially with industrial ones. AERO.UA project will allow KhAI not only to establish contacts with EU aviation stakeholders, but also to share its knowledge and experience in European collaboration with wide Ukrainian research community to facilitate creation of new winning EU-UA partnerships in aeronautics.