Europe’s aerospace technology program Clean Aviation has approved €152 million in EU funding for eight new projects that target breakthrough technologies for commercial aviation. If all public and private investments are included, the latest round totals €380 million.
The eight projects that are part of the Clean Aviation Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) cover three topics. In total €86 million of EU funding is for the development of hydrogen-powered aircraft. Included is Trophy, which stands for Technological Research on Propulsion by Hydrogen and is led by Safran
. Airbus leads the FAM project, which is an acronym for Fuel Cell Propulsion System for Aircraft Megawatt Engines. MTU Aero Engines is behind Herops or Hydrogen-Electric Zero Emission Propulsion System.
