Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

CAER – Alternative Fuels for Aeronautics

CAER is a 6 M-Euro contract with the Civil Aviation Directorate (Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile, DGAC), coordinated by the French Petroleum Institute (Institut français de pétrole-énergies nouvelles, IFPEN) on behalf of a large consortium of industrial (EADS, Dassault, Snecma, Turbomeca, Airbus, Air France, Total) and academic (CNRS, INRA, Inria) partners to explore different technologies for alternative fuels for aviation. Pleiade 's role concerns the genomics of highly-performant oleaginous microorganisms.