PREAMA:
PRopellers for
Electric
Air
Mobility
Applications

The Rhine-Meuse region faces a critical challenge to remain competitive within the rapidly emerging electric and urban air mobility (UAM) sector. New markets for drones, air taxis, and VTOL aircrafts might grow exponentially, with forecasts exceeding 1.4 million propeller blades needed by 2035.

Propellers are highly loaded structures requiring advanced carbon-composites for strength, stiffness, and efficiency. Today, however, European manufacturers rely on manual hand lay-up or braiding methods, which are labour-intensive, costly, and too slow to meet the scale-up needed.

The PREAMA project aims to automate the manufacturing process for carbon-composite propellers and demonstrate a scalable, cost-efficient, and efficient production line. The expected change is a competitive, high-throughput composite manufacturing platform that enables European SMEs to serve fast-growing UAM markets.

STIPP

STIPP stands for SME Transition Innovation Partner Projects. The STIPP instrument covers the whole scope for innovative SMEs, from business development and consortium building up to funding for innovative cooperation projects. The STIPP instrument therefore consists of one part aimed at support for SMEs and another part aimed at direct funding. Both STIPP projects are strongly intertwined and aim to support the cross-border innovation development of small

At Interreg Meuse-Rhine (NL-BE-DE), we help innovators in the border region of the Netherlands, Germany and Belgium to get their ideas off the ground. With European funding, we support projects where partners work together across borders to improve social and economic cohesion.
Interreg is a European funding programme from the region and for the region that has been supporting cross-border cooperation projects in the Meuse-Rhine region for more than 30 years. It is one of the key instruments of the European Union to tackle common challenges and develop shared solutions.
The Interreg Meuse-Rhine (NL-BE-DE) programme has a total budget of 125 million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) for the 2021-2027 funding period to make the Meuse-Rhine area a greener, better connected, smarter and more citizen-oriented region.

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