A good European ATM Master Plan is one for which the entire air traffic management community feels ownership; that's why collective effort and co-creation are essential in designing the next edition. This was the key message that Andreas Boschen, Executive Director of the SESAR 3 Jointing Undertaking (SESAR 3 JU) conveyed to over 100 stakeholders participating at a vision workshop this week in Braunschweig, Germany.

Alain Siebert, Chief Technology and Strategy, SESAR 3 JU, said that the time was now to take collective responsibility and shape the vision for the Master Plan and deliver a roadmap for establishing Europe as the most efficient and most environmentally friendly sky to fly in the world.

Hosted by SESAR 3 JU founding member, DLR, the workshop featured “world café” sessions aimed at getting the creative juices flowing. These techniques generated a wide range of ideas, which will now be developed further in the six expert working groups. The ideas covered:

• Delivering an ATM system, which by design, enables each flight to minimise its climate impact;
• Enabling the human and machine to team up, where decision-making is transparent and trustworthy and where safety remains the top priority;
• Implementing an advanced open architecture that is data rich, flexible and standardised.
• Upgrading the U-space concept and enable new forms of air mobility  ; 
• Future civil-military capabilities and how to increase our cybersecurity posture;
• Setting investment priorities to complete the defragmentation of European skies through virtualisation.

The SESAR 3 JU and the larger community will have nine months to lead and build consensus on the Master Plan’s vision and the key research and deployment priorities it should contain. This phase will be followed by a more formal consultation phase ahead of the Master Plan’s adoption towards the end of next year.

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