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International – Declaration of the International Forum for Aviation Research IFAR

The second IFAR Summit took place in the frame of the Paris Air show and on invitation of ONERA in Méry-sur-Oise, 18–19 June 2011. The participants represent the heads or the high level representatives from 20 aviation research organisations worldwide.

IFAR is the new international platform of national aviation research organisations. It was founded in 2010.

IFAR is a voluntary cooperative forum for exchange among aviation research organisations in view of the increasing demands to R&T on a global level and aims to support its Members in the implementation of their research aims.

The second IFAR Summit took place in the frame of the Paris Air show and on invitation of ONERA in Méry-sur-Oise, 18 – 19 June 2011. The participants represent the heads or the high level representatives from 20 aviation research organisations worldwide.  With the accession of 5 new members the number of participating organisations in IFAR has increased to 21 (see below).  

See the Declaration of the Paris Summit IFAR

Participating organisations in IFAR:

1. Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
2. Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
3. Central Aerohydrodynamics Institute of Russia (TsAGI), Russia
4. Centro Italiano Ricerche Aerospaziali (CIRA), Italy
5. Chinese Aeronautical Establishment (CAE), China
6. Czech VZLU-Aeronautical Research and Test Institute, Czech Republic
7. French Aerospace Lab (ONERA), France
8. German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany
9. India National Aerospace Laboratories (NAL), India
10. Institute for Aerospace Research – NRC, Canada
11. Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Japan
12. Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI)], Korea
13. Middle East Technical University (METU) Ankara, Turkey
14. National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands (NLR), Netherlands
15. National Institute of Aerospace Research “Elie Carafoli” of Romania (INCAS), Romania
16. National Institute of Aerospace Technology of Spain (INTA), Spain
17. Polish Institute of Aviation (ILOT), Poland
18. Technical Research Centre of Finland (VTT),  Finland
19. The Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOI), Sweden
20. U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), USA
21. von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium