EREA

EREA, the Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics, is a non-profit organisation whose members are Europe's national research centres in the field of aeronautics and air transport, represented in 14 European countries. It was founded in 1994 to meet the European challenges that national research establishments began to face as the aviation industry integrated, air transport consolidated into multinational carriers and regulation became a European responsibility, and it grew out of the earlier Union of European Research Establishments and the AEREA association. EREA's vision is to be the trusted leader in Europe on aviation applied research through expertise and innovation, by enhancing synergies among its members.

Mission

• Intensify cooperation among members in civil, military and space-related aeronautics research
• Facilitate integrated management of joint activities, contributing to Europe's role as a global player in aeronautics
• Improve and intensify cooperation with third parties in aeronautics, including closer European cooperation in security and defence
• Pool capabilities across members, including certification and support to certification, through the Technology and Research Infrastructures Group (TRIG) and the Defence Research Group (DRG), and the EREA Future Sky joint research initiative

Members and activities

Member establishments shown on the site include DLR in Germany, ONERA in France, NLR in the Netherlands, CIRA in Italy, INTA in Spain, INCAS in Romania, VZLU in the Czech Republic, Lukasiewicz ILOT in Poland, FOI in Sweden, AIT in Austria, the von Karman Institute (VKI) in Belgium, CEIIA in Portugal, CSEM in Switzerland, AFIT and the National Composites Centre. EREA has published a vision study on the future of aviation in 2050, supports the PULSAR project coordinated by ONERA to propel European leadership through synergised aviation research, and holds an annual event in Brussels each December, where it celebrated 30 years of EREA in 2024 and presented Designing the Future of Aviation in 2025. Contact topics on its site cover research projects in aeronautics and security and defence, and it issues a newsletter.

Shows

EREA appears in the supporting organisation lists of the 16th EASN International Conference 2026.

Contact

Association of research establishments in 14 European countries; annual event held in Brussels
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