The Net Institute conducts a broad range of international cooperation, both within network and direct structures. Its purpose is to actively support the scientific-research community in acquiring new international experience.

The Net Institute actively participates in organizing European and worldwide conferences and seminars. It promotes presentation of Polish scientists' achievements to the world community. It also initiates numerous projects, aimed at exchanging experience with foreign partners and institutions, recruiting prestigious partner organizations and actively participating in the organization of international research projects.

Networks within the Net Institute

X3-NOISE - AIRCRAFT EXTERNAL NOISE RESEARCH NETWORK AND COORDINATION European thematic network focusing on issues connected with aircraft noise. All current European Union member and candidate countries are network participants. This network cooperates with research and development centers around the world, from countries including the United States, Japan, Brazil and Canada. Operation of the network is financed by European Union funds. Based on cooperation with this network, the NET INSTITUTE is creating a national expert network, devoted to aircraft noise issues. Poland's representative in the X3-NOISE European Thematic Network is Dr. Antoni Niepokólczycki, Director of the Net Institute.

THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE ON AERONAUTICAL FATIGUE Activities of the committee focused on issues related to the structural fatigue of aircraft. ICAF members are countries that have highly developed aviation industry, in addition to the requisite research and development facilities, such as: the USA, Canada, Germany, France, Holland, Belgium, Great Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, Japan, Australia, New Zealand and Finland. After several years of efforts, Poland became a member of this group in 2007. As a result of our participation in ICAF, expert networks will be created under the auspices of the Net Institute, devoted to aeronautical fatigue and nondestructive testing. Poland is represented in the ICAF (International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue) committee by Dr. Antoni Niepokólczycki, Net Institute Director.

Poland in AeroPortal project Two unique projects: SCRATCH www.aero-scratch.net and AEROSME www.aerosme.com, working within the framework of Programmes 5 and 6, and assisting ca 7000 small and medium European aircraft industry enterprises, have been combined into one project: Support Action "AeroPortal" www.aeroportal.eu (website temporarily under construction). Project partners come from 14 countries such as France, Belgium, Israel, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Romania, Poland, the Czech Republic, Canada, Hungary, Italy, Spain and Russia who recently also joined the project, expecting tangible benefits from Programme 7, just like Canada and Israel do (www.aero-scratch.net/contact.html). In Poland, the Contact Point for AeroPortal is located at the Institute of Aviation, which has been an active member of the SCRATCH project since 2004. Amongst the project's participants there have been two Polish companies: Rector in Zielona Gora and Ultratech in Rzeszow. The "AeroPortal" started on 1st December 2007 with the participants' meeting in Brussels, and will be carried out over the next 30 moths, with its end date in 2010. Currently, one may take part in AeroPortal projects within the 2nd Aeronautics contest of the 7th Programme, announced on 30th November 2007, to end on 7th May 2008. Proposals are to be submitted at the Country Contact Point at the Institute or Aviation (from Poland SHECOSS project is starting) or in co-operation with the projects presented at www.aero-scratch.net/prepare.html.

Partners of the Net Institute:

• A2 Acoustics AB, Szwecja
• Alenia Aeronautica Spa, Włochy
• Anotec Consulting, Hiszpania
• Airbus SA, Francja
• Airbus UK, Wielka Brytania
• Air Force Research Laboratory, Analytical Structural Mechanics Branch, USA
• Airworthiness and Structural Integrity, Wielka Brytania
• Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Węgry
• Czech Technical University, Czechy
• Dassault Aviation, Francja
• Deutches Zentrum fur Luft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Niemcy
• EADS (Corporate Research Center), Niemcy
• Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Szwajcaria
• FOI Swedish Defence Research Agency, Szwecja
• Free Field Technologies, Belgia
• GFCI, Francja
• Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugalia
• Institute for Aerospace research (NRCC), Kanada
• Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (INRIA), Francja
• Integrated Aerospace Sciences Corporation, Grecja
• Israel Aircraft Industries, Izrael
• Japan Aerospace Technology Foundation, Japonia
• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgia
• Lambert Aircraft Engineering bvba, Belgia
• LMS International N.V., Belgia
• Manchester Metropolitan University, Wielka Brytania
• National Aerospace Laboratory, Holandia
• National Research & Development Intitute for Gas Turbines (COMOTI), Rumunia
• ONERA, Francja
• Rolls_Royce plc, Wielka Brytania
• RUAG Aerospace, Szwajcaria
• Société pour le Perfectionnement des Matériels et Equipements Aérospatiaux (SOPEMEA), Francja
• Saab Aerosystems, Szwecja
• Snecma, Francja
• Stichting National Lucht en Ruimtevaart Laboratorium, Holandia
• Structural Monitoring Systems, Australia
• Swedish Defence Research Agency, Szwecja
• To70 B. V, Holandia
• Toulouse Aeronautical Test Center (CEAT), Francja
• Trinity College Dublin, Irlandia
• Universitá di Pisa, Włochy
• University of Southampton, Wielka Brytania
• Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Litwa
• Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgia
• VTT Machine and Vehicle Industries, Finlandia
• Zara Web Services, Francja