Division Article 2 Tasks

The Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking shall carry out the following tasks:

1. (a)

   providing financial support to research and innovation indirect actions mainly in the form of grants;

2. (b)

   bringing together a range of ITDs and IADPs supported by TAs, with the emphasis on innovative technologies and development of full-scale demonstrators;

3. (c)

   focusing efforts within ITDs, IADPs and TAs on key deliverables that can help the Union meet its environmental and competitiveness goals, including as outlined in the Commission’s White Paper from 2011 entitled ‘Roadmap to a Single European Transport Area – Towards a competitive and resource efficient transport system’;

4. (d)

   enhancing the technology verification process in order to identify and remove obstacles to future market penetration;

5. (e)

   pooling user requirements to guide investment in research and development towards operational and marketable solutions;

6. (f)

   ensuring the provision of procurement contracts, where appropriate, through calls for tender;

7. (g)

   mobilising the public and private-sector funds needed;

8. (h)

   liaising with national and international activities in the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking technical domain, in particular with the SESAR Joint Undertaking established by Council Regulation (EC) No 219/2007^f1;

9. (i)

   stimulating the involvement of SMEs in its activities, in line with the objectives of the Seventh Framework Programme and of Horizon 2020;

10. (j)

    developing close cooperation and ensuring coordination with related European (in particular under the framework programmes), national and transnational activities;

11. (k)

    engaging in information, communication, exploitation and dissemination activities by applying mutatis mutandis Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1291/2013, including making the detailed information on results from calls for proposals available and accessible in a common Horizon 2020 e-database;

12. (l)

    liaising with a broad range of stakeholders including research organisations and universities;

13. (m)

    any other task needed to achieve the objectives set out in Article 2 of this Regulation.