Airbus-backed ZEROe hydrogen aviation research has secured funding support in Clean Aviation’s latest project selection round, which allocates €290 million across 19 projects for future zero-emission aircraft development. The funding includes hydrogen-propulsion work linked to Airbus’s ZEROe programme, with the selection published on Wednesday and covered by FlightGlobal.
The round forms part of Clean Aviation’s broader push to mature technologies for lower-emission flight, including hydrogen propulsion systems for next-generation aircraft. Exact project-level allocations were not disclosed in the available material, leaving the Airbus share and consortium structure unconfirmed. The programme sits within Europe’s public-private aviation research framework and is aimed at advancing ground and flight demonstration work rather than immediate commercial deployment.
Hydrogen remains one of the key technology pathways under scrutiny for long-term decarbonisation of aviation, and Airbus has positioned ZEROe as its main research effort in that field. The latest funding support extends that work through Clean Aviation, which has steadily directed resources towards hydrogen-related concepts alongside other advanced propulsion projects.