Riga, April 20 - 21, 2005

Brokerage event

The brokerage event will take place on the first day

Scope

This is the second edition after the success in the organisation of the Aerospace brokerage Event in France, Toulouse, January 2005, with participants from 9 countries.
Any companies interested and/or working in the field of Aeronautics and Space are welcome to submit their profile.
The Brokerage event provides an excellent networking environment to discuss problems and new ideas in Aeronautics and Space area, share knowledge and experience and obtain feedback from potential partners and users in Aeronautics and Space. This will help better exploitation of results and better co-ordination of research activities. Enterprises and institutions are invited to present their new products and research results at the fair and to take part with lectures at the Brokerage event. Interested parties will have the opportunity to select individual meetings, which will be coordinated by the Riga Technical University staff. During the event you will have the chance to conduct high-quality face to-face meetings with potential co-operation partners. Event will provide a forum to showcase the achievements of FP6 in Aeronautics and Space in National and International related initiatives, and look forward to the future by focusing on the thematic priorities of FP7. The European Research Area (ERA) and research priorities and trends for the future will also be discussed. The programme will combine strategic keynote presentations of the project partner and SMEs in Aeronautics and Space in Latvia and Partner states.
We hope that brokerage event will be a catalytic forum towards the establishment of European partnerships for R&D, Networking, Technology Transfer and Business development in the field of Aeronautic and Space.

The event is an ideal platform to:
• talk to potential project partner
• develop transnational contacts
• inform yourself about the technological trends and research activities in project partner states

Who should take part:
Companies, research institutes and universities offering or requesting innovative technologies, procedures or products

Language: English

Registration fee: free of charge

Presentations: have to be prepared as PowerPoint Presentations and send in advanced to Ms. Gundega Jakobsone, gundega.jakobsone@rtu.lv before 15.04.2005.

Brokerage event April 20, 2005

AGENDA

Time	Topic	Organization	Name of the speaker
9.00-9.30	Registration
9.30-9.40	Welcome of participants	Riga Technical University	Rector of RTU Prof. I.Knets
9.40-9.55	Introduction of the brokerage event	Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory–Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria	Tsvetan Dachev, Project coordinator
9.55-10.10	Presentation of Bulgarian Potential areas of collaboration	Solar-Terrestrial Influences Laboratory – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria	Tsvetan Dachev
10.10-10.20	Presentation of Latvian Potential areas of collaboration	Riga Technical University, Latvia	Sandra Vasilevska
10.20-10.35	Lithuanian Potential areas of collaboration and 7. Framework Programme.	Agency for International Science and Technology Development Programmes, Vilnius, Lithuania	Birute Mikulskiene
10.35-10.50	Presentation of French potential areas of collaboration	CNRT-AE, PCN Aeronautique & Espace	Th.Schoenfeld
10.50-11.05	Presentation of Malta Potential areas of collaboration	University of Malta	Carl Debono
11.05- 11.35	Coffee break and individual discussions
11.35-11.55	Polish Potential areas of collaboration in the current and 7. Framework Programme.	Institute of Fundamental Technology Research – Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw	Zbigniew Turek
11.55-12.10	Presentation of Romanian Potential areas of collaboration and 7. Framework Programme.	Romanian Space Agency, Bucharest, Romania	Anca Liana Racheru
12.10-12.25	Presentation of Turkish Potential areas of collaboration and 7. Framework Programme.	The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey	Aziz Koru
12.25-12.40	Company presentation, Potential areas of collaboration	TUBITAK-SAGE, Turkey	Sadik Murat Yuksel
12.40-12.55	Presentation of Estonian Potential areas of collaboration	Archimedes Foundation, Tallinn, Estonia	Hillar Toomiste
13.00-14.00	Lunch Break and individual discussions
14.00-14.15	Emission poor burn technologies in flight gas turbines” Potential areas of collaboration and 7. Framework Programme.	Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd & Co KG Combustor Aero-Thermal & Fuel Preparation, Germany	Dr.Ralf v.d.Bank
14.15-14.30	Potential areas of collaboration and 7. Framework Programme.	MTU Aero Engines GmbH, Germany	Dr.Ralf v.d.Bank
14.30-14.45	Galileo – a Constellation to Beacon the Way in the Baltics project	RTU	Viesturs Veckalns
14.45-15.00	Company presentation, Potential areas of collaboration	ROKETSAN, Turkey	Dr.Hasan Tugrul Tinaztepe
15.00-15.15	Company presentation, Potential areas of collaboration	Institute of material Structures of RTU	Assoc.Prof. J.Barkanov
15.15-15.30	Company presentation, Potential areas of collaboration	AERCOM	Dr. N. Tjunins
15.30-15.45	Company presentation, Potential areas of collaboration	Institute of Aviation	Prof. V.Pavelko
15.45-16.00	Conclusion Round table Discussion
16.15	End of Brokerage Event

Consortium Meeting, April 21, 2005

AGENDA

Time	Topic	Organization	Name of the speaker
10.00	Current results of the project	STIL-BAS	Dr. T. Dachev
	Periodical reporting of the 1-st year	All partners
	Definition of the project strategy of the 2-nd year	All partners
12.15.-13.15	Lunch Break
13.30	Next Brokerage events in Malta and Turkey main goals of the events organization (agenda) guest speakers	All partners
	Content of the newsletter for the 2-nd project year	TUBITAK; All partners	Mr. Aziz Koru
15.00-15.30	Coffee break and individual discussions
15.30	Conclusion Round table Discussion
16.00	End of Consortium Meeting
16.30	Guided group tour around Old Riga

Location :
119. Room Riga Technical University, 1. Str. Kalku, Riga, Latvia

Contacts and registration:

Sandra Vasilevska Project manager Riga Technical University sandra.vasilevska@rtu.lv
Gundega Jakobsone Project assistant Riga Technical University gundega.jakobsone@rtu.lv phone: +3717089356

Riga Technical University, 1Str. Kalku, Riga, Latvia

RTU is the oldest and at present the second largest institution of higher education in Latvia, offering advanced study program in Engineering, Technology, Chemistry, Architecture and Business Management.
The history of RTU dates back to the foundation of the Riga Polytechnic in 1862 – a private institution supported by municipal and estate bodies of Baltic Provinces. In 1896 Riga Polytechnic was recognised to become the Riga Polytechnics Institute – the official establishment of higher education in Czarist Russia, and tuition was conducted in Russian and German. In 1919 the Latvian Higher School was established on the bases of the former Riga Polytechnics Institute. In 1922 this institution was renamed as University of Latvia. In 1958 the Riga Polytechnic Institute was re-established to unite all engineering faculties of the University of Latvia. In 1990 the institute got its present name. The change of the name was not a more formality but the result of the long-term reorganisation of all study programs with the aim to qualify for the status of a high-standard European university. At present the number of students in different engineering majors has reached the highest previous level – 14850. Currently the RTU comprises of 8 faculties plus the 6 independent units.

Minutes for START brockerage event

Introduction

The second brokerage event of the EU FP 6 project START was organized by Riga Technical University . 20 participants attended the event altogether: both the project START partners as well as the representatives from the local Latvian aerospace community.

Description: 6. FWP START project 2nd Brokerage event provides an excellent networking environment to discuss problems and new ideas in Aeronautics and Space area, share knowledge and experience and obtain feedback from potential partners and users in Aeronautics and Space. This helps better exploitation of results and better co-ordination of research activities. Enterprises and institutions are invited to present their new products and research results at the fair and to take part with lectures at the Brokerage event. Interested parties will have the opportunity to select individual meetings, which will be coordinated by the Riga Technical University staff. The event offers the chance to conduct high-quality face to-face meetings with potential co-operation partners. Event also provides a forum to showcase the achievements of FP6 in Aeronautics and Space in National and International related initiatives, and looks forward to the future by focusing on the thematic priorities of FP7. The European Research Area (ERA) and research priorities and trends for the future are also discussed. The programme of the event combines strategic keynote presentations of the project partner and SMEs in Aeronautics and Space in Latvia and Partner states.

The event is an ideal platform to:

• talk to potential project partner
• develop transnational contacts
• inform yourself about the technological trends and research activities in project partner states

The special scope of the organization of brokerage events in this project is to allow the key representatives in research from the EU MSs and ACCs to meet the project partners and identify potential areas of collaboration in the aerospace area. Its main target is to establish and strengthen the networking and collaboration between stakeholders. Moreover, it supports the fundamental aims of the START program by contributing in practical terms to the stimulation of research and co-operation between stakeholder organizations in ACCs and MSs. These events will contribute to the integration of the European Research Area and are intended to lead to the increased participation of ACCs in the current and future Framework Programmes.

The list of participants of the 2 nd project START Brokerage Event:

Dr. Tsvetan Dachev – coordinator, STIL-BAS, Bulgaria

Dr. Thilo Schonfeld – partner, CNRT – AE, France

Dr. Anca Racheru – partner, ROSA, Rumania

Dr. Zbigniew Turek – partner, IFTR, Poland

Dr. Birute Mikulskiene – partner, AISTDP, Lithuania

Mr. Hillar Toomiste – partner, Archimedes , Estonia

Dr.Ing. Carl Debono – partner, MCST, Malta

Mr. Reuben Farrugia – MCST, Malta

Mr. Aziz Koru – partner, TUBITAK, Turkey

Mr. Sadik Murat Yuksel – TUBITAK-SAGE , Turkey

Mr. Hasan Tugrul Tinaztepe – Roketsan , Turkey

Ms. Paola Chiarini - AECMA, Belgium

Dr.Ing. Ralf von der Bank – Rolls-Royce, Deutschland

Dr. Nikolai Tionin – AERCOM, Latvia

Dr. Sergey Flerov – AERCOM, Latvia

Dr. Ing. Evgeny Barkanov – IMS, RTU, Latvia

Prof. Vitaly Pavelko – AI, RTU, Latvia

Mr. Viesturs Veckalns – RTU, Latvia

Ms.Sandra Vasilevska – RTU, Latvia

Ms.Gundega Jakobsone – RTU, Latvia

Process of the event

1 st Session: The Brokerage event was divided in two sessions. During the first part of the day all the partners involved in the project START were given the floor to present the aerospace potential in the participating Member State or Accession Candidate Country of the project START. All the presentations were 15 minutes long focusing on the RTD capacity in the particular country.

Dr. Anca Racheru, partner from Romanian Space Agency during her presentation suggested an expression of interest for the 3 rd Call Space 1 in the FP6.

2 nd Session : The second session was held after the lunch break, and it started with a presentation of Dr.Ing. Ralf von der Bank, delegate from Rolls-Royce Deutschland Ltd. who was presenting the project “Emission Poor Burn Technologies in Fight Gas Turbines” as well as speaking on the potential areas of collaboration in the FP 7. Since Dr. Hermann Scheugenpflug, Director of Technology Management of MTU Aero Engines GmbH from Germany was not able to participate in the meeting his presentation on the activities of EIMG (Engine Industry Management Group) in FP6 was also performed by Dr.Ing. Ralf von der Bank. Mr. von der Bank also expressed an interest about the potential partners form new member states for the STREP projects in the 3 rd Call Space 1 in the FP6.

Dr.Ing. Ralf von der Bank's performance was followed by the presentation of Mr. Viesturs Veckalns, representative from Riga Technical University, who introduced the participants of the event with the recently funded Phare CBC project “Galileo – a Constellation to Beacon the Way in the Baltics” the coordinator of which is Riga Technical University.

Several local Latvian organizations and companies such as AERCOM, Ltd., Aviation Institute, RTU and Institute of Materials and Structures, RTU were giving an insight on their activities in the aerospace sector in Latvia . They also presented the potential areas on future collaboration.

Closing part: The final stage of the event was devoted to the interchange of views about the potential collaboration in future projects in the FP 6 Call III as well as different suggestions and ideas were expressed on how to increase the efficiency of the brokerage events of the project START in future.

Dr. Tsvetan Dachev – project coordinator from STIL-BAS , Bulgaria as well as Ms. Paola Chiarini from AECMA in Belgium emphasized the importance of the distribution of information on the project START data base.

Dr. Thilo Schonfeld project partner from CNRT – AE in France proposed to focuss on the next GALILEO call saying that the Brokerage Event in Riga might serve as a good background for the upcoming calls for proposals.

Owing to Mr. von der Bank's impressive performance, Mr. Aziz Koru – project partner from TUBITAK in Turkey considered the possible collaboration in a joint project with German partners in FP 6.

Success story

After the Brokerage Event in Riga , a new collaboration contact was established between Senior researcher Dr. Ing. Evgeny Barkanov from Institute of Materials and Structures, Riga Technical University and University of Malta . An experience exchange visit was also organized between the organizations.