The Council of European Aerospace Societies was formed in 1993 as the Confederation of European Aerospace Societies in recognition of the increasingly international nature of aerospace business. The transition from Confederation to Council took place in 2003 with the intention of providing improved collaboration, legal status and use of the resources of the constituent societies.
CEAS primary objective is to enhance the value of the diverse services offered by the Member Societies at a European level, facilitating greater dialogue between them and European institutions, governments, the aerospace and defence industries, and academia.
CEAS is governed by a Board of Trustees, which includes representatives from each Member Society. Its head office is located in Brussels, Belgium. [1]
CEAS currently comprises eleven Trustee Member Societies (with a combined roughly 35.000 individual members):
and seven Corporate Members:
CEAS organises or co-sponsors various conferences and in particular the CEAS Aerospace Europe Conference (AEC). The previous CEAS conferences were Berlin (2007), Manchester (2009), Venice (2011), Linkoping (2013), Delft (2015), Bucharest (2017), Bordeaux (2020), Warsaw (2021), Lausanne (2023) and Turin in December 2025 (cf. CEAS AEC 2025 website).
CEAS recognises outstanding achievements and contributions through various awards: