July 2011

FP7 Aeronautics and Air Transport Agenda 18 July 2011

Paul Stewart

 

Airbus A380

FP7 Information Days for Transport (Including Aeronautics) 18 July 2011

Aeronautics and Air Transport Draft Agenda

Brussels (Charlemagne building, Rue de la Loi 170)

Morning: Plenary sessions (Plenary room GASP – second floor) Chairman: Marco Brusati (RTD-H1)

08h00-09h00 Participants registration

Welcome addresses

09h00-09h15 “Research and Innovation for Next Generation Air Transport”

András Siegler, Director for Transport,

Directorate-General Research and Innovation

  • 09h15-09h30 “The Air Transport of Tomorrow”

Matthew Baldwin, Director for Aviation,

Directorate-General Mobility and Transport

Presentation of the Fifth Call for Proposals in Aeronautics and in cross-cutting activities

 

  • “AAT Research in the 7th Framework Programme”

Tiit Jurimae, Head of Unit (RTD-H3)

  • “Aeronautics and Air Transport – 5th call”

Remy Denos (RTD-H3)

  • “Lessons learnt from previous FP7 calls”

Dietrich Knoerzer (RTD-H3)

  • “Transport horizontal call (TPT)”

Frank Smit (RTD-H1)

 

Presentation of the other Aeronautics & Air Transport Activities linked to FP7

How to apply

  • “Opportunities for SMEs”

Michael Kyriakopoulos (RTD-H3)

  • “International Cooperation”

Pablo Perez-Illana (RTD-H3)

  • “How to apply: call, rules, eligibility, e-submission, evaluation overview and contracting” Hans Josef von den Driesch (RTD-H3)

Presentation of Cordis partners services

Magdolna Zsivnovszki & Simon Robinson (Cordis)

“The role of National Contact Points”

David Doerr, ETNA coordinator (TÜV Rheinland PT)

Questions and answers

13h00-14h30 Brokerage/workshops

Opening of the brokerage activities

Tiit Jurimae, Head of Unit (RTD-H3)

Level 2 presentations (4 x 15 min.) EASN presentation

Coffee break

Workshop

Questions and answers

EU FP7 Transport Meetings 2011: Brussels

Paul Stewart
7 Transport Information Days 2011 - 18-19 July 2011

Chris Bingham and Paul Stewart from the UoL School of Engineering will be heading to Brussels on Sunday for a Framework 7 briefing event.

The next round of calls for proposals under the Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7) will be published at the end of July 2011.

In order to support the preparation of proposals, the European Commission’s Research Directorate General will hold two ‘Information Days’ on 18 and 19 July 2011 in the Charlemagne building, rue de la Loi 170, in Brussels.

The aim of the two-day event is to inform potential researchers about FP7 and the new Transport Calls for Proposals under the ‘Co-operation’ Programme. Details will also be given on the main legal and procedural conditions and we will respond to your questions. Participants will also have the chance to network with potential project partners by posting information on the main networking boards, and will also be given the opportunity to give a brief Powerpoint presentation at each full day event.

Gas turbine research past and present

Paul Stewart
First flight of the jet engine powered Gloster E28-39

May 2011 saw the 70th anniversary of the first British jet powered aircraft flight celebrated at RAF Cranwell.

Exactly 70 years ago, on 15 May 1941, the Gloster E28/39 aircraft powered by Sir Frank Whittle’s jet engine taxied over 500 yards down the runway before taking off for a flight that lasted almost 17 minutes.

Organised by the Defence College of Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE) and sponsored by Aviation Heritage Lincolnshire supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund, the event saw the attendance of a wide range of guests including Sir Frank’s son Ian Whittle. Sir Frank began his RAF career as an apprentice and later trained as an RAF officer at RAF Cranwell.

L-R Ian Whittle, Kate Ellis (Lincoln City Council), Dr Jill Stewart (Acting Head of Engineering, University of Lincoln), Rob Smith (City of Lincoln Council)

Dr Jill Stewart, Acting Head of Engineering at the University of Lincoln is pictured in front of the Gloster E28/39 aircraft, and one of Sir Frank Whittle’s jet engines.

Pictured with Jill are Kate Ellis and Rob Smith from Lincoln City Council. We work closely with Kate and Rob, developing links with Lincoln engineering businesses for R&D, and also to raise the profile of Lincoln as a centre of engineering excellence.

Coming right up to date, Jill is currently leading a major research project looking at fundamental combustion in gas turbines for Siemens Industrial Turbomachinery in Lincoln.

ICMAT 2011 Singapore: Final Session – Sensing / Probes

Paul Stewart
Symposium Chair Prof Dave Fernig of the University of Liverpool closing the Symposium

Thursday 1st July was the final day of the Fontiers in Optical Bio-Imaging and Microscopy Symposium

AA8-1 (Invited Talk)

Looking for Clues – Solving Complex Problems with Biologically Inspired Heuristics

Paul Stewart and Jun Chen (University of Lincoln), David Fernig (University of Liverpool), Laurence Duchesne (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

AA8-5

New Probes for Imaging: Ligand Shells for Nanoparticles

David Fernig (University of Liverpool), Laurence Duchesne (Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, France)

Martin Lear, National University of Singapore presents 'Fluorescent Labelling of Drugs and Natural Products'

Finally Colin Dowding closed our participation in the conference today by presenting:

J12.2-1

Topography of Features Machined into Bisphenol A Polycarbonate Using Closed Thick Film Flowing Filtered Water Immersed KrF Excimer Laser Ablation

Colin Dowding, Jonathan Lawrence and Paul Stewart (University of Lincoln.

in the Nanoscale Characterization session