Embraer enters new partnership to accelerate research in sustainable aircraft technologies

Embraer along with Brazil’s ministry of science and technology and innovation (MCTI) and the Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos (Finep) – which promotes Brazil’s economic and social development through public funding for science, technology and innovation – have signed an agreement for R$126.7 million ($23 million) investment in sustainable aircraft technologies research. Finep will use resources from non-reimbursable funding originating from the national development, scientific and technological funding (FNDCT) to support 50% of this research agreement, with Embraer supporting the other half of the investment. “The technological innovations generated by this project will pave the way for the Brazilian aerospace