Moving towards AErospace

Dutch Principal Investigator: The Delft MAE team consists of 3 people; Emad Yaghmaei, Jos van den Boom and Victor Rijkaart
Planned period: March 2023 - February 2027

Project summary: MAE’s overall objective is to develop public policies that support a responsible transformation of relevant industrial sectors towards the future orientated, aerospace sector. MAE achieves this by using interregional learning and a responsible innovation approach that reflects on and anticipates potential transformation impact.

About the project

Moving Towards Aerospace (MAE) is an Interreg Europe project. The aim is to kick-start and support the transformation of production chains in the aerospace industry.

8 full partners and 2 associate policy authorities from 7 European regions have joined forces with Interreg Europe co-funding. Together they will improve their regional policies and design aerospace ecosystems.

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Team

Victor Rijkaart and Jos van den Boom are active in building Eco-systems in which TU Delft plays an important role in cooperation with other partners from industry and government for the transformation in sustainability and digitalization in aerospace. The Delft Region is the centre of the Zuid Holland Aerospace Delta. In May 2023, the Aerospace Delta unveiled a comprehensive long-term program, the Aerospace Delta Agenda 2030. The Agenda  involves strengthening and regional collaboration within the Aerospace Delta Cluster.

Emad Yaghmaei from TPM takes care of responsible design of sustainable aviation by considering ethical aspects, developing responsibility-by-design roadmaps and standards for Aerospace ecosystem actors to guide them to develop long-term strategies to innovate responsibly. His work covers governance of organisations and processes with a focus on their ethical, social, and governmental impacts in the aviation sector. In MAE, Emad is especially interested in designing and developing necessary policies and methods for the implementation, evaluation, and assessment of responsible innovation within the Aerospace context. Technology, Policy, and Management (TPM) Faculty research in MAE lies in the intersection of science, innovation, technology, and society. TPM work takes the outset in Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) and its institutionalisation within stakeholders across aerospace innovation ecosystems.