A. ENTITY DESCRIPTION

INTA is a government research institution mainly funded by the Spanish Ministry of Defence. Since its establishment in 1942, INTA became the reference Spanish center for the development of aeronautic technologies. Later on INTA became a focus of technology emission, which did not circumscribe itself exclusively to the aeronautic and aerospace fields, and has participated in solving technological problems in a wide variety of industrial activities including renewal energies, astrobiology, automotive, materials, etc. INTA is also one the Spanish Reference centres for metrology and certification. INTA is member of RTO (NATO research Office), of EREA (Association of European Research Establishments in Aeronautics) and GARTEUR (European Group for Aeronautical Research and Technology).

B. ROLE IN THE HERFUSE PROJECT

INTA will be in charge of Certification Compliance Verification tasks inside WP9 (Final Assessment).