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What is the Alliance?

What is the objective of the Alliance?

Who can join the Alliance and how?

Alliance Membership

  • 27 OCTOBER 2022
AZEA Steering Committee
  • 11 SEPTEMBER 2024
AZEA List of Members

Background: The European aeronautics industry’s commitment to net zero

The European aeronautics industry together with other European players in the aviation sector has taken the strong commitment to ensure that air transport in Europe meets Europe 2050 climate’s objectives. This includes the development of zero-emission aircraft based on novel propulsion technologies (e.g. electric, hydrogen).

In order to prepare this Alliance, the Commission gathered partners’ feedback through an online survey carried out at the end of 2021. The survey largely endorsed the concept on which the Alliance is based, and many companies and organisations offered to play an active role in the Alliance. Download the report.

The Alliance’s objective is in line with the Toulouse Declaration on future sustainability and decarbonisation of aviation [endorsed on 4 February 2022], which calls for sectoral roadmaps and joint efforts towards sustainability and decarbonisation of aviation worldwide.

Milestones of the Alliance

  1. 6 June 2024
    4th AZEA General Assembly & Publication of AZEA Vision
  2. 23 January 2024
    3rd General Assembly of the Alliance
  3. 14 November 2022
    First General Assembly and creation of thematic working groups
  4. 26 September 2022
    Announcement of the first wave of Alliance members
  5. 24 June 2022
    Official launch of the European Alliance for Zero-Emission Aviation
  6. 4 February 2022
    Toulouse Declaration endorsed
  7. 15 October 2021
    EU Commission closes AZEA public consultation
  8. 1 September 2021
    EU Commission launches AZEA public consultation
  9. 5 May 2021
    European Commission announced in its Communication on Updating the 2020 New Industrial Strategy the intention to prepare an Alliance on ZEA

Contacts

DEFIS-AZEAatec [dot] europa [dot] eu (DEFIS-AZEA[at]ec[dot]europa[dot]eu)