Environmentally Friendly Aviation for all Classes of Aircraft
EFACA is a project co-funded by the European Commission through the Horizon Europe Programme, inserted on the Climate, Energy and Mobility cluster aiming at fighting climate change by 2050.
OUR MISSION STATEMENT
EFACA project intends to promote an aviation sector more climate and environmentally friendly with the development of new technologies by using electric and hybrid thermoelectric propulsions and new sustainable fuels to replace fossil fuels.
About EFACA
EFACA is a project funded by the European Commission under the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. It aims to support the greening of the EU’s aviation industry by testing a hybrid turbo-electric propulsion system for a propeller-driven regional aircraft, while also tacking areas such as fuel cells with both conventional and novel cooling mechanisms.
Objectives & Actions
EFACA aims to achieve its goals by putting forward six main objectives divided into three levels which are presented below:
- Level 1: Three TRL3 demonstrations of technologies relevant to the greening of aviation;
- Level 2: Considers 4 clasess of aircraft: (i) small, (ii) regional, (iii) single and (iv) twin aisle, including preliminary designs of (ii) and (iii);
- Level 3: Road map for the achievement of the EU environmental targets for aviation synthetizing.
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News & Events
16th EASN International Conference 2026
Partners of the EFACA consortium participated in the 16th EASN International Conference on Innovation in Aviation & Space, held in Toulouse, France, from 27 to 30 October 2026. The event brought together representatives from the European aerospace research and innovation community to discuss emerging technologies, scientific developments, and the future of sustainable aviation. The conference…
Final Workshop at ISEAS 2026
From 15 to 18 September 2026, the Environmentally Friendly Aviation for All Classes of Aircraft (EFACA) project held its Final Workshop as part of the International Conference on Electric Aviation and Autonomous Systems (ISEAS 2026) in Kharkiv, Ukraine. The event marked a milestone in the project’s 2023–2026 implementation period. Organised by the Sustainable Aviation and…
WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026
The EFACA consortium took part in WCCM-ECCOMAS 2026, held in Munich from July 19th to 24th, 2026. During the conference, EFACA contributed to the special session STS421 – “Technological and Operational Roadmap for Greening of Aviation”, with several papers reflecting the project’s work towards more sustainable and climate-neutral aviation. The contributions covered a wide range…