ANIMA

Coordinator:

(1) ONERA - OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET DE RECHERCHES AÉROSPATIALES

Official partners:

(2) THE MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY (MMU)
(3) STICHTING NATIONAAL LUCHT - EN RUIMTEVAARTLABORATORIUM (NLR)
(4) AIRPORT REGIONS CONFERENCE (ARC)
(5) SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES (SAE)
(6) AIRBUS OPERATIONS SAS (AIRBUS)
(7) ANOTEC ENGINEERING, S.L. (ANOTEC)
(8) BUDAPESTI MUSZAKI ES GAZDASAGTUDOMANYI EGYETEM (BME)
(9) DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUER LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV (DLR)
(10) ENVIRONNONS (ENVIRONNONS)
(11) ERDYN CONSULTANTS (ERDYN)
(12) HEATHROW AIRPORT LIMITED (HEATHROW)
(13) INSTITUTUL NATIONAL DE CERCETARE - DEZVOLTARE TURBOMOTOARE COMOTI (INCDT COMOTI)
(14) NATIONAL AVIATION UNIVERSITY (NAU)
(15) NACIONALNI INSTITUT ZA JAVNO ZDRAVJE (NIJZ)
(16) AEROPORTUL IASI RA (IASI AIRPORT)
(17) SCHIPHOL NEDERLAND B.V. (SCHIPHOL)
(18) TRANSPORT SYSTEMS CATAPULT LIMITED (TSC)
(19) UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE (UNIROMA3)
(20) UNIVERSITE DE CERGY - PONTOISE (UCP)
(21) UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON (SOUTHAMPTON)
(22) ZEUS GMBH, ZENTRUM FÜR ANGEWANDTE PSYCHOLOGIE, UMWELT - UND SOZIALFORSCHUNG (ZEUS)

Project Objectives - Abstract:

    Aircraft noise continues to cause adverse effects on quality of life and public health in airports' neighborhood. To address this challenge and ensure airports will have the capability to respond to the growing traffic demand, ANIMA aims to develop new methodologies and tools to manage and mitigate the impact of aviation noise, improving the quality of life near airports while facilitating airports growth and competitiveness of the EU aviation sector within the environmental limits, also considering 24/7 operations.

    Hence, ANIMA carries out critical review and assessment of noise impacts and existing management practices to establish best practices' guidelines for an effective management of annoyance beyond ICAO Balanced Approach (WP2); develops a better understanding to address community annoyance, sleep disturbance and improve quality of life through pilot studies and surveys, assessing new methodologies reducing annoyance, testing novel and cost-effective solutions for land-use planning, using also mobile applications, the whole to derive new indicators (WP3); develops a 24/7 Noise Management Toolset to empower non-specialists with decision support capability and a 24/7 Design Toolset for researchers (WP4); tests and validates with end-users (airports and community) an "Aviation noise community platform", gathering tools and best practices, facilitating consensus building and engaging communities in the mitigation process, ensuring exploitation of the results (WP5); supports the coordination of national and EU research activities, establishing a common strategic research roadmap for aviation noise reduction through the involvement of a pan-European network of experts and project leaders, also addressing international collaboration opportunities (WP6).

    ANIMA, a 4-year cost-effective project (total budget 7 479 618 €) builds on its consortium's multidisciplinary excellence gathering 22 partners (Industry, SMEs, RTOs, Universities, airports and local authorities) from 11 countries.

Dissemination of scientific knowledge:

• Scientific publications in key journals (e.g. Acta Acustica, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America", "Noise & Health", "Journal of Air Transport Management", "International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health")
• Presentation in major international conferences (e.g. Greener Aviation, ICBEN - International Congress on Noise as a Public Health Problem, Euronoise, InterNoise)
• Workshops gathering relevant stakeholders
• Annual Expert Committee Meetings

Fixed EC Keywords: External Noise Prediction (ENP)

Free Keywords: aircraft noise, annoyance, quality of life, sleep disturbance, health impact, land-use planning, Environmental Noise Directive, ICAO Balanced Approach, 24/7 operations, European Research Network

"This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 769627".