ITAKA Final Workshop
The event took place on 13-14 September in Madrid. Project partners and key stakeholders discussed the final results, shared and exchanged best practices, evaluated emerging issues and jointly took the next steps towards the successful development of biofuels for aviation.
The KLM flight campaign at Oslo Airport has been completed
Flight campaign has been successfully completed KLM Royal Dutch Airlines has completed a series of 80 biofuel flights from Oslo to Amsterdam operated with an EMBRAER 190. The flight data is being processed to measure the efficiency of biofuel produced within Itaka.
Camelina oil production
A 4th camelina oil plantation is currently growing in Spain to complement the highly valuable information made already available from the project in the previous plantations. Information gathered about the crop in the European Union focus on improve social, economic and environmental performance of the crop.
This plantations in Spain are complemented with smaller plantations in Romania to consider different climate and socioeconomic conditions.