MIME team is a well balanced mix of industry and academia, with a proven record of excellence in noise technologies and air transport economics. You can find more about each partner by clicking on its respective link.
EUROCONTROL EXPERIMENTAL CENTRE (Belgium) The EUROCONTROL Experimental Centre (EEC) is a service business unit of the EUROCONTROL Agency. (EUROCONTROL is the European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation.) The EEC is entrusted with executing the research and development programmes of the Agency. The mission of the EEC is to play a leading role in research relevant to the safe, efficient, and environmentally-sustainable management and operation of the European ATM system. Constantly aware of the needs of citizens in the 21st century, and being at the centre of the European ATM research network, the EEC drives research to ensure the timely delivery of the evolutions to the ATM component of the European transport system. |  |
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SINTEF (Norway) The SINTEF Group is the largest independent research organisation in Scandinavia. Every year, SINTEF supports the development of more than 2000 Norwegian and overseas companies via our research and development activity. SINTEF's goal is to contribute to wealth creation and to the sound and sustainable development of society. We generate new knowledge and solutions for our customers, based on research and development in technology, the natural sciences, medicine and the social sciences. SINTEF has approximately 1900 employees, 1300 of which are located in Trondheim and 450 in Oslo. In Norway we have also offices in Bergen, Stavanger and Ålesund, in addition to offices in Houston, Texas (USA), Skopje (Republic of Macedonia), Warsaw and Cracow (Poland), and a laboratory in Hirtshals (Denmark). SINTEF's head office is in Trondheim. |  |
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ENVISA (France) ENVISA specialises in environmental and economics research in the transportation domain, focusing on the aviation sector. The company provides consultancy services, develops tools and participates in R&D programmes related to sustainability issues. ENVISA offers a high level of expertise in addressing air transport environmental issues including noise, local air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, weather modelling and cost benefits. It develops and employs a wide range of modelling tools related to these questions. Based in Paris, ENVISA collaborates with international universities, airports, transportation companies and independent consultants, providing specialised support and complementarities on an ad-hoc basis. |  |
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QINETIQ (United Kingdom) QinetiQ is one of the world's leading defence technology and security companies, with over 11,000 employees. We will be bringing our expertise in the Air Traffic Management and Environmental Assessment domains to MIME. The Air Traffic Management Group has a history, breadth and depth of understanding of the system, technical, operational and procedural issues of CNS/ATM. We have developed a synthetic environment which represents aircraft movements at airports and TMA together with integrated noise and emissions models; also a flexible 4D tool for visualisation of simulation results. The Air Vehicle Studies and Environment team has expertise and experience in aircraft performance and environmental impact, including aircraft design and assessment, as well as noise and emissions prediction. We have developed a number of tools and methods, providing a capability for interdependency modelling and trade studies of technologies and configuration. |  |
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UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS (United Kingdom) The Institute for Transport Studies is a free-standing school of the University of Leeds and sits within the Faculty of the Environment. The Institute's aims are to advance the understanding of transport activity, operations and use and to develop skills and best practice among transport professionals and decision-makers. ITS is a leading centre for transport research. It secured a 5* rating, the highest rank, in the most recent UK Research Assessment Exercise in 2001, maintaining the top ranking it achieved in the 1996 and 1992 assessments. Major funders of research at ITS are the European Commission, Department for Transport and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). ITS maintains two research facilities and was the first academic unit in Britain to achieve ISO 9001 accreditation for research activities. ITS currently has around 90 staff and 30 research students. |   |
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TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY MUNICH (Germany) The TUM started life as one of Germany’s oldest schools of technology. Since its foundation in 1868 it has offered a wide range of scientific and engineering subjects, including architecture. This range has been extended continuously. Today there are twelve faculties and six central institutes with some 480 professors, a staff of 8,500 and approx. 20,000 students. TUM was voted Elite University in a joint decision taken by the Science Council and the German Research Foundation on 13.10.2006. |  |
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NLR (Netherlands) The National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) is an independent aerospace research institute that employs more than 700 highly motivated and highly skilled professionals. With a track record spanning more than 80 years, NLR assists a wide range of national and international aerospace industries, government organisations and research institutes. Tailored R&D solutions are realised with our customers, inserting new technology and using state of the art facilities, like wind tunnels, simulators and research aircraft. NLR covers the broad spectrum of developing, testing, validating and certifying products and processes during the life cycle for civil and military aerospace applications. Please contact us for more detailed information about our products & facilities or visit our website at www.nlr.nl 'NLR, dedicated to innovation in aerospace' |  |