Proposal Acronym

Flagship

Proposal Name

Coordinating entity

EU requested contribution

Summary

AEROPLANE

Aviation green deal

Advancing mEasures to Reduce aviatiOn imPact on cLimate and enhAnce resilieNce to climate-changE

DEEP BLUE SRL

€992.626,25

Aviation and climate are inextricably linked. Air traffic emits greenhouse gas emissions that alter the composition of the atmosphere globally. In turn, these changes to the atmosphere increasingly result in extreme weather phenomena, which can adversely affect aircraft performance, leading to air traffic rerouting, delays and cancellations. The project aims to develop a toolkit to mitigate the climate impact of aviation and improve the sector’s resilience to climate change.

AI4HyDrop

U-space and urban air mobility

An AI-based Holistic Dynamic Framework for a safe Drone’s Operations in restricted and urban areas

UNIVERSITETET I SOROST-NORGE

€1.993.112,50

Drones are already used in an array of sectors, from agriculture, construction and surveillance to film-making, healthcare and emergency services. Given the scale and complexity of drone operations that are expected in the coming years, a holistic approach needs to be taken to managing the airspace. The project will develop a framework that incorporates various AI-based tools and associated information flows to enable future drone operations at scale. The proposed framework will represent a digital step change in ATM, using AI as a means to move to more automated U-space services.

ASTAIR

Connected and automated ATM

Auto-Steer Taxi at AIRport

ECOLE NATIONALE DE L AVIATION CIVILE

€986.483,75

The project will design a support tool to fully automate the supervision of airport ground operations. The partners will prototype a human-machine interface that will make use of algorithms to autonomously manage vehicle movements on the airport surface. The project aims to provide the controller with enough flexibility to locally tweak the algorithm rules to cope with operational events.

ASTRA

Artificial intelligence for aviation

AI-enabled tactical FMP hotspot prediction and resolution

UNIVERSITA TA MALTA

€1.139.244,00

Today, air traffic congestion or hotspots are identified using flight plan data and are managed in the pre-tactical stage of the flight. However, on the day of operation, an aircraft's actual trajectory may differ significantly from its flight plan and, as a result, hotspots still occur and these have to be resolved by the controllers (ATCOs) without sufficient advance notice. With today's tools, tactical hotspots are only identified up to around 20 minutes in advance. The aim of ASTRA is to predict and resolve hotspots much earlier than today using an AI-enabled tool. The overall aim is to optimise capacity while enabling aircraft to adhere to more efficient and green trajectories.

CODA

Connected and automated ATM

COntroller adaptive Digital Assistant

DEEP BLUE SRL

€1.929.486,00

Air traffic control is reputed as one of the five most stressful professions there is. Addressing the mental workload of controllers is therefore an important area of SESAR research and innovation and one that can be addressed using artificial intelligence. The project aims to
develop a digital assistant capable of predicting future traffic, and assessing controllers’ stress levels and attention span, and whether they would be capable of handling the anticipated workload. The assistant would decide how to act, following an adaptation strategy: it may, for instance, increase the level of automation, enable additional AI-based tools, or request changes to the airspace (sector splitting).

E-CONTRAIL

Aviation green deal

Artificial Neural Networks for the Prediction of Contrails and Aviation Induced Cloudiness

UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID

€997.500,00

Contrails and increased cloudiness caused by aviation can trap heat and lead to a net warming effect on our planet. However their impact on climate can depend on weather, regional and seasonal variations. The project will blend cutting-edge AI techniques and climate science to better predict and understand the non-CO2 impact of aviation on global warming and reduce uncertainties as an essential step towards greener aviation.

Engage 2

Knowledge transfer

The SESAR 3 Knowledge Transfer Network

DEEP BLUE SRL

€3.749.987,50

The Engage knowledge transfer network (KTN) aims to share the resources and findings of the SESAR research and innovation programme with a view to informing future fundamental research, as well as transferring results towards application-oriented work. The network will build on the work of its predecessor, which developed a number of instruments to facilitate knowledge transfer, including a knowledge hub, thematic challenges, catalyst funding and summer schools, to name but a few.

Green-GEAR

Aviation green deal

Green operations with Geometric altitude, Advanced separation and Route charging Solutions

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

€1.999.998,75

Since the early days of aviation, barometric pressure measurements have been a simple and robust method for altimetry. However, it has some drawbacks including having no direct reference to terrain and vertical profile variabilities restricting capacity and flight efficiency. The project will investigate the environmental potential of geometric altimetry enabled by satellite navigation, to increase safety, support greener climb and descent operations, while also optimising capacity. At the same time, the project will investigate the potential of environmentally-driven route charging to incentivise airspace users to avoid volumes of airspace with a high climate impact and disincentivise flight planning through high demand sectors / flight altitudes.

HUCAN

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

Holistic Unified Certification Approach for Novel systems based on advanced automation

DEEP BLUE SRL

€998.900,00

The adoption in ATM of increasingly automated technologies, enabled by artificial intelligence, raises new challenges around liability and certification that must be addressed at the point of design. The project proposes a novel and holistic approach for the certification and approval of AI-enabled ATM airborne and ground systems, targeting EASA, national authorities and air navigation service providers. The project will also develop a set of suitable design guidelines and associated toolkit for streamlining the development of automation and AI-powered technologies, targeting manufacturers. A parallel analysis of certification approaches, legal and regulatory features and critical issues of such technologies will be carried out.

HYPERSOLVER

Connected and automated ATM

Artificial Intelligence controller able to manage Air traffic Control (ATC) and Air Traffic Flow Management (ATFM) within a single framework

NeoMetSys

€982.746,25

In air traffic flow management (ATFM), measures are issued when traffic demand exceeds capacity usually in advance of take-off. Controllers then give different aircraft instructions to separate them when airborne. The challenges facing ATFM and air traffic control may differ and solutions to them are often developed in isolation of one another. The project aims to develop a “hyper solver” based on an advanced artificial intelligent reinforcement learning method with continuous reassessment and dynamic updates. The tool is a holistic solver from end-to-end, covering the whole process to manage density of aircraft, complexity of trajectories, interactions (potential conflict in dynamic capacity balancing timeframe) of trajectories, conflict of trajectories at medium-term and conflict of trajectories at short-term.

ImAFUSA

U-space and urban air mobility

Impact and capacity Assessment Framework for U-space Societal Acceptance

Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

€999.331,25

Citizens’ confidence and acceptance is critical to the further development of the drone services market in Europe, especially urban air mobility (UAM). The project will develop an impact and capacity assessment framework for U-space societal acceptance to assist local authorities, other U-space stakeholders and users with the implementation of socially acceptable and beneficial urban air mobility in cities. The framework and its tools will address matters which influence public opinion, such as the environment (e.g. noise, visual pollution and air quality), and safety and socio-economics (e.g. affordability, accessibility, economic development, public space use and connectivity).

MAIA

Multimodality and passenger experience

Multimodal Access for Intelligent Airports

NOMMON SOLUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES SL

€1.000.000,00

Cooperative, connected and automated mobility and urban air mobility are the next big trends in transport, and represent viable and innovative solutions to expand mobility choices for getting to, from and around airports. The project will develop a set of data analytics and modelling tools to support the implementation of multimodal airport access solutions based on two passenger mobility innovations: shared autonomous vehicle fleets and unmanned aerial vehicle fleets. The tools will monitor and anticipate passenger behaviour changes due to these new options, optimise vehicle dispatching under multimodal disruptions and recommend appropriate locations for vertiports, with the aim of maximising the contribution of these mobility innovations to the competitiveness and sustainability of the European aviation sector. The overall goal is to enable multimodal services for airport access that balance passenger experience with capacity and environmental sustainability.

MultiModX

Multimodality and passenger experience

Integrated Passenger-Centric Planning of Multimodal Transport Networks

BAUHAUS LUFTFAHRT EV

€1.750.380,00

Air and rail are natural multimodal partners and their collaboration is key to assuring a more efficient, predictable, and environmentally sustainable door-to-door passenger journey. The project will develop a set of innovative solutions and decision-making tools to support the coordinated planning and management of multimodal transport networks. Specifically, the project will develop a modelling and evaluation framework, and a solution to enable the coordinated design of air and rail schedules according to expected demand behaviour.

MUSE

U-space and urban air mobility

Measuring U-Space Social and Environmental Impact

NOMMON SOLUTIONS AND TECHNOLOGIES SL

€999.731,25

The project will develop a set of key performance indicators, methods and tools for the comprehensive and rigorous assessment of the impact of urban air mobility (UAM) operations on the quality of life in European cities, with particular focus on drone-generated noise and visual pollution. The project will develop a new toolset capable of generating accurate drone 4D trajectories in urban areas, modelling UAM’s noise and visual footprints, high-resolution dynamic population mapping and calculation of population exposure indicators segmented by type of day and time of the day, citizens’ sociodemographic profile, type of activity being performed and other relevant variables.

SEC-AIRSPACE

Virtualisation and cyber-secure data sharing

Cyber SECurity Risk Assessment in virtualized AIRSPACE scenarios and stakeholders’ awareness of building resilient ATM

SINTEF AS

€999.764,00

The digitalisation and modernisation of air traffic management will bring many advantages to aviation, but these will come with challenges in managing cyber vulnerabilities. The project aims to introduce cyber security components into the state-of-the-art security risk assessment methodology (ies) currently already in use in ATM. The project will also investigate the potential of applying the concept of people analytics (PA) to increase cyber security awareness in ATM organisations. The project results will be validated and demonstrated through two real use cases, involving relevant stakeholders.

SMARTS

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

Smart sectors

UNIVERSITY OF LANCASTER

€1.614.521,25

Optimising airspace capacity is a key to accommodating current and future air traffic, while maintaining safety, improving efficiency and reducing aviation’s environmental impact.
The project will focus on dynamic airspace configuration and the design of “smart sectors”. This covers the design of basic volumes of airspace with optimal distribution of workload, tailored around specific safety and operational requirements, including complexity. As a by-product, the application of cost-efficient capacity actions allows for more accurate demand and capacity balancing planning, thus reducing the number of required demand measures.

SynthAIR

Artificial intelligence for aviation

SyntAIr - IMPROVED ATM AUTOMATION AND SIMULATION THROUGH AI-BASED UNIVERSAL MODELS FOR SYNTHETIC DATA GENERATION

SINTEF AS

€993.550,00

The availability of a wide variety of labelled data (e.g. safety related) is major bottleneck impeding the accuracy of AI models developed for ATM. One possible solution is to generate synthetic data from original data and a model that is trained to reproduce the characteristics and structure of the original data. The project will explore and define AI-based methods to generate synthetic data. These methods are attractive since they require less user knowledge expertise and better generalisation capabilities. The project will take advantage of advances in computer vision and language technology to develop a universal time series generator (UTG). The generator can be trained on a certain set of data obtained from a small number of airports in order to generate synthetic data about a new airport.

TRUSTY

Artificial intelligence for aviation

TRUSTWORTHY INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIGITAL TOWER

MALARDALENS UNIVERSITET

€999.967,50

Remote digital towers are capable of delivering affordable air traffic services as safely and efficiently as physical towers. The project aims to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance the capabilities of digital towers in terms of resilience, capacity and efficiency. The overall goal is to enhance the trustworthiness of AI-powered decisions in the context of remote digital towers on specific tasks, such as runway and taxiway monitoring. The project will apply information visualisation techniques like visual analytics, data-driven storytelling, and immersive analytics in human-machine interactions (HMI). In doing so, the project is at the crossroads of trustworthy AI, multi-model machine learning, active learning, and UX for human and AI model interaction.

Proposal Acronym

Flagship

Proposal Name

Coordinating entity

EU requested contribution

Summary

PEARL

Transversal

Performance Estimation, Assessment, Reporting and simuLation

ENAIRE

€1.999.859,27

Performance is at the heart of the SESAR research and innovation programme. In support of this, the project will carry out the SESAR performance management process, under the leadership of SESAR 3 JU. The project will assess every solution and research outcome and how they contribute to meeting the overall performance ambitions of the European ATM Master Plan. The project will maintain the SESAR Performance Framework and related material, as well as provide support to project maturity gates.

AMPLE3

Transversal

SESAR3 ATM Master Planning and Monitoring

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€1.954.872,34

The project will support the SESAR JU in planning and reporting on deployment activities in both industrialisation and implementation, and to update the European ATM Master Plan, when needed. The project will carry out content integration (CI) activities to support the SESAR 3 JU’s programme management of development activities and the delivery of a coherent set of SESAR Solutions aligned at content level with the direction and ambitions set by the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and the European ATM Master Plan.

CICONIA

Aviation green deal

Climate effects reduced by Innovative Concept of Operations - Needs and Impacts Assessment

AIRBUS

€5.618.724,13

As much as the goal of reducing aviation’s carbon emissions is critical, the warming impact of aviation caused by the other chemicals emitted by jet engines should not be overlooked. In this respect, the project will focus on non-CO2 effects of aviation, and how they can be measured. The project will work closely with airlines, the network and air traffic control to ensure these effects can be taken into account in operational planning and design.

CONCERTO

Aviation green deal

dynamicC cOllaboration to geNeralize eCo-friEndly tRajecTOries

THALES LAS FRANCE SAS

€5.054.856,64

The project aims to make eco-friendly trajectories an everyday occurrence in order to reduce the CO2 and non-CO2 impact of aviation. The project aims to integrate green ATC capacity into the system, with the appropriate level of automation, and support stakeholders in balancing regularity and environmental performance at local and network levels. The project will do so by leveraging state-of-the-art climate science and data to allow ATM stakeholders to take their “eco-responsibility” to the next level. At the same time the project aims to demonstrate that mitigation measures can be deployed progressively at network level, in sync with scientific progress.

DYN-MARS

Aviation green deal

DYNamic Management of Aircraft Configuration and Route Structures

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

€4.155.315,68

The way an aircraft climbs or descends can make a significant difference to the environment, from reducing fuel burn, to minimising gaseous emissions and noise over the surrounding airport communities. The project aims to minimise the environmental footprint of flights during climb, descent and approach through novel avionics functions and improved arrival routes and procedures. It provides, for the first time, a holistic solution that combines airborne and ATM improvements enabled by enhanced communication capabilities.
 

GALAAD

Aviation green deal

Green Aviation – Lean Arrivals And Dynamicity

ENAV SPA

€3.848.817,01

The project will develop and validate a concept for dynamic required navigation performance (RNP) route allocation in the terminal area in order to make air traffic control operations more sustainable, resilient, responsive and adaptive towards changes in operational conditions and variations in traffic demand. The aim is to deliver an end-to-end concept, including relevant decision-support tools evolution and taking into account cross-border operations. A move to dynamic routing is expected to result in improved fuel efficiency and environmental sustainability without negatively impacting capacity, while improving safety and cost efficiency.

GEESE

Aviation green deal

Gain Environmental Efficiency by Saving Energy

AIRBUS

€5.874.611,76

Migratory birds such as geese often fly in formation to save energy by taking advantage of the changed airflow in each bird's wake. Like a bird, a moving airplane leaves a wake of disturbed air, creating an updraft that allows a following aircraft to cut down on engine thrust, fuel use and emissions. The project will seek to introduce this notion of wake energy retrieval (WER) into air traffic operations within Europe. Specifically, the project will elaborate an initial concept of operations (CONOPS) to enable Europe to North Atlantic WER operations, analysing safety aspects and the impact on legacy systems. The project will also provide operational solutions for the extension of WER operations within European domestic airspace. As an enabler to operations, the project will investigate non-CO2 potential benefits of formations, in addition to better known CO2 benefits.

FCDI

Connected and automated ATM

Future Connectivity and Digital Infrastructure

LEONARDO - SOCIETA PER AZIONI

€11.998.964,65

The project aims to specify and develop the future communications, navigation and surveillance technologies to support and manage the operational services, like the four-dimensional trajectory management, in the future ATM system. Performance requirements for CNS systems are becoming increasingly complex and demanding and need to be considered as part of an integrated and holistic system of systems, which includes air and ground CNS solutions considering convergence towards a common infrastructure, and a unified concept of operations, where possible. In parallel, CNS systems and infrastructure for both airborne and ground must take a more business- and performance oriented approach with efficient use of resources delivering the required capability in a cost-effective and spectrum efficient manner.

SOLO

Air-ground integration and autonomy

Single pilOt Line Operations

AIRBUS

€4.886.912,63

Under current EU regulations, at least two pilots must be present within the cockpit of commercial flights. But new advances in technologies open up the possibility to certify single pilot operations (SPO), either for certain portions of the journey, such as when cruising, or for the whole flight once the technology is mature. The introduction of greater levels of automation in the cockpit would therefore allow the pilot to focus on more strategic and safety-critical tasks. The project aims to develop a concept for single pilot operations, ensuring minimal changes to current ATC tools and procedures. The aim is to feed standardisation and regulatory developments on SPO.

NETWORK TBO

Air-ground integration and autonomy

Network Trajectory Based Operations

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€5.628.987,51

Trajectory-based operations (TBO) is a cornerstone of the SESAR vision paving the way for more predictable air traffic management. TBO is about sharing a common plan for a flight’s trajectory; matching that trajectory to the performance needs of the circumstances; and delivering the trajectory via ATC clearances. The project aims to deliver several solutions to enable trajectory-based operations during the planning and execution phases, taking a network view. Specifically, solutions will address flight and flow in a collaborative environment, making use of downlinked data from the aircraft (EPP) and improving both ATC and network processes through synchronisation of network and local trajectories.

ECHO 2

Air-ground integration and autonomy

European Concept for Higher Altitude Operations Phase 2: Towards the integration between Air Traffic Management and Higher Altitude Operations

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€10.793.067,87

The higher airspace (airspace approximately 60,000 ft) is no longer exclusive to space rockets and military planes, but hosts an expanding range of vehicles, including long-endurance balloons, high altitude platform stations (HAPS), supersonic and hypersonic aircraft. With missions varying from connectivity and surveillance to passenger transport and satellite services, these vehicles with vastly different operating characteristics present a new airspace management challenge. The project will build on research from the ECHO project on developing a concept of operations (CONOPS) for higher airspace. Specifically, the project will focus on introducing to the CONOPS a module on space launch real-time monitoring, and packages covering ground and air-ground operational integration procedures.

ISLAND

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

INTELLIGENT SUITE FOR LOCAL AND NETWORK DEMAND AND CAPACITY BALANCING

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€9.183.570,97

Managing demand for access to the airspace and available capacity is a balancing act in ATM. The project will develop dynamic airspace configuration solutions by leveraging artificial intelligence (including machine learning), various virtualisation models, digital integrated network and ATC planning (INAP) applications, as well as network-wide monitoring. The project addresses the need for on-demand air traffic services reflective of traffic demand, and the continuity of ATM services despite disruptions. The solutions are expected to enable increased en-route capacity and improved cost-efficiency of air traffic service provision, without compromising the current safety levels.

JARVIS

Artificial intelligence for aviation

JUST A RATHER VERY INTELLIGENT SYSTEM

COLLINS AEROSPACE IRELAND, LIMITED

€10.847.805,53

Digitalisation holds great promise especially for complex ecosystems like the aviation value chain (aircraft, air traffic control – ATC, airports). By teaming up with their human counterparts (pilots, ATC operators, airport operators), digital assistants (DAs) can support the execution of tasks to ensure safe and efficient operations in complex scenarios. The project will develop three AI based solutions: an airborne digital assistant to support crew and single pilot operations; an ATC digital assistant to support more efficient and green tower operations; and an airport digital assistant will increase the level of automation in airports, enhancing safety and security for intrusion detection scenarios.

MITRANO

Civil-military interoperability & coordination

Mission Trajectory in ATC and Network Management Operations

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€7.564.523,28

Europe’s armed forces operate more than 150,000 flights per year. To accommodate these flights, the airspace is often closed, sometimes at short notice, to civil traffic. Given the growth of air traffic demand and complexity, SESAR is developing operational and technical solutions that allow more flexible civil-military cooperation to maximise the use of airspace. Key to this cooperation is the integration of military operations. The project aims to advance solutions to manage mission trajectories and collaborative decision-making at network level and in ATC operations, including advanced design principles for military access to the airspace.

EUREKA

U-space and urban air mobility

EUropean Key solutions for vertiports and UAM

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€6.924.045,14

Air taxis are an exciting development in air mobility, but to get off the ground, these vehicles rely on infrastructure like vertiports and accompanying air traffic management procedures. The project will develop the complete arrival, departure and turnaround process for vertiports. The proposed solutions will take into account collaborative traffic management, how to deal with emergencies and disruptions and network flow and capacity management. The project will provide recommendations for regulation/standardisation and any information that will accelerate and harmonise the development of UAM, VTOL operations and vertiports across Europe.

OperA

U-space and urban air mobility

Operate Anywhere

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL SRO

€6.988.488,74

Urban air mobility (UAM) has the potential to revolutionise last-mile transportation. To pave the way and accelerate market uptake, the project will validate complex UAM operations (piloted air taxi and unmanned cargo) in real-life air traffic control conditions, including contingency and non-nominal situations. It will specifically address air/ground integration and the critical transition from piloted towards automated flights, making use of several key autonomy-enabling technologies. In addition, it will ensure environmental sustainability compared to the next-best transport alternative, and enhance it, by optimising flight routing for minimum noise footprint and aircraft energy utilisation.

ENSURE

U-space and urban air mobility

atm-uspacE iNterface and airSpace reconfigURation sErvice

INDRA SISTEMAS SA

€6.983.742,55

Ensuring an interoperable and effective interface between unmanned and conventional traffic and air traffic control is critical for the delivery of the future Digital European Sky. This project aims to refine and complete the definition of a common interface and services for U-space and ATM. The project will develop a standardised data model, architecture and an operational methodology. The project will also develop a dynamic airspace configuration service to help ATC actors in charge of airspace reconfigurations to maintain traffic segregation and to avoid proximity between manned and unmanned aircraft within the designated U-space airspace.
 

SPATIO

U-space and urban air mobility

u-Space sePAraTIOn management

ENAIRE

€6.996.206,01

Keeping aircraft safely separated is one of, if not the core function of air traffic management today. As larger numbers of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) take to the skies, separation management becomes more important to avoid mid-air collisions. The project will address separation between unmanned air vehicles, in particular, strategic and tactical conflict resolution services and the relationship between separation and capacity in U-space airspace.

SAFIR-Ready

U-space and urban air mobility

Obtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-space services.

HELICUS BVBA

€6.997.758,25

The project aims to develop new U-space advanced services together with a central command and control centre (C2C), as well as an automated ground integration (Drone Cargo Port - DCP) to facilitate automated time-critical drone-based services for medical and non-medical use cases. Specifically, research will focus on a dynamic capacity management system (U3), detect and avoid algorithms (U3) and machine to machine communication and decision making (U4). The project will extend use cases to non-medical critical missions, such as shore to ship for the transport of materials and the inspection of railway and electric grids in case of unforeseen issues with the infrastructure (e.g. tree fallen on high tension cable).
 

FASTNet

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

Future dAta Services and applicaTions for airports and Network

INDRA SISTEMAS SA

€4.803.147,13

Every flight begins and ends at airports, which makes them essential nodes in the aviation network. The project will make use of advances in data technologies to help fully integrate airport operations into the network (AOP-NOP integration). The project will focus on the pre-tactical and strategic planning, using artificial intelligence to enable airport-to-airport collaborative planning within the network operations plan. The project also aims to extend the timeframe of the AOP-NOP integration, from months to days in advance of departure. The project will rely on state-of-the-art technologies to integrate new datasets available at local level, such as local restrictions, pre-tactical flight information and strategic local information in order to enrich demand and capacity balancing information and ensure efficient planning from the strategic phase.

KAIROS

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

unlocKing the potential of AI-based weatheR forecasts for Operational benefitS

INTELMET SOLUTIONS, S.L.

€3.819.921,88

Bad weather can play havoc with the best-laid plans. This is especially true in air traffic management, where poor meteorological conditions are a primary cause for traffic delays in Europe. Performing better during adverse weather relies on timely and accurate forecasts, which is easier said than done given how quickly the conditions can evolve. The project aims to improve the quality of meteorological information through the use of artificial intelligence. Specifically, it will integrate live weather information from AI forecasts with existing decision support tools and platforms to assess the operational benefits to several end-users. The aim is to improve the management of demand and capacity balancing across the network level, but also for local flow management, and urban air mobility.

CNS DSP

Virtualisation and cyber-secure data sharing

Demonstration of a CNS data service provision (CNS DSP)

EUROPEAN SATELLITE SERVICES PROVIDER SAS

€2.845.214,46

Communication, navigation, and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure is the foundation for the provision of air navigation services. To make CNS more resilient and efficient, the Digital European Sky will see a move away from CNS as physical assets towards a service-based approach. Mindful of this needed change, the project will develop digital platforms and services leveraging state-of-the-art technologies to enable future data-sharing service delivery models. It aims at sharing CNS data between air navigation service providers (ANSPs) and other aviation stakeholders (e.g. civil and military airspace users, airports, national authorities, etc). The project will carry out tests using data from several ANSPs for the use by third-party application/service developers.

VITACY

Virtualisation and cyber-secure data sharing

VIrtual center with Triangle Architecture and CYber-resilience

INDRA SISTEMAS SA

€4.493.118,01

Today, ATM in Europe mostly consists of country-based systems and processes, which require customised systems and solutions at each ATM provider. This has led inevitably to a lack of interoperability and higher costs of air navigation services across Europe and an inefficient usage of resources. The virtual centre refers to the decoupling air traffic management (ATM) data services, such as flight data, radar, and weather information, from the physical controller working position (CWP). The project will a “triangle architecture”, a powerful type of architecture based on disaggregating services currently offered by one main ATM data service provider (ADSP) into new specific functionality-oriented ADSPs for arrival ,management, time-based separation and conflict detection and resolution. The project will also develop cyber-resilience tools focused to monitor attacks and display alerts if detected.

SIGN-AIR

Multimodality and passenger experience

implemented SynergIes, data sharing contracts and Goals between transport modes and AIR tansportation

UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE CATALUNYA

€3.562.807,51

The project will develop and pilot a new platform for the sharing of data in multimodal travel. The platform will provide the means for transport service providers (TSPs) to register, reach data sharing agreements with other TSPs and manage their contractual relationships. The project will address contract templates to simplify the legal management, the electronic management and information provision about each specific contract, routing information for travel companions (TCs) with enriched information about the specific contracts for their customers. The ultimate aim is to facilitate single ticketing through a comprehensive understanding of the contracts and the data managed, among others.
 

DARWIN

Artificial intelligence for aviation

Digital Assistants for Reducing Workload & Increasing collaboratioN

HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL SRO

€3.460.077,00

AI-based automation for cockpit and flight operations are the key enabler for single pilot operations (SPO). The project aims to develop digital assistants to support SPO operations, assuring the same (or higher) level of safety and same (or lower) workload as operations with a full crew today. The project will deliver solutions that enable operational efficiency and route flexibility, taking into account the complexity of the future airspace. The results will support the commercial and operational viability of those new airspace users.

MIAR

Connected and automated ATM

Making I-CNSS a Reality

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

€4.714.029,85

The L-band digital aeronautical communication system - LDACS – is a digital broadband radio link that enables a connection between an aircraft and the terrestrial infrastructure, just like in cellular telephony. This secure, scalable and spectrum efficient data link also boasts of having navigation and surveillance capabilities, thereby offering an attractive integrated CNS solution for the sector. The project will carry out flight tests to demonstrate how LDACs can enable optimised separation between aircraft in real time and the use of multiple non-GNSS technologies to provide an integrated navigation solution.

FCA

Connected and automated ATM

Flight Centric ATC Project

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

€2.555.672,89

European airspace is divided into flight information regions, which are subdivided into sectors to provide safe separation services for aircraft travelling through the airspace. Changing this to a flight-centred structure without reference to geographical sectors opens up the opportunity to distribute the traffic more evenly, and to avoid lost productivity in under-loaded sectors.  The project will develop the flight-centric concept for an ECAC-wide implementation in medium density traffic areas considering the existing national boundaries. Furthermore, the project includes the development of *ECAC-wide deployment scenarios, which are consistent with the limitations of the VHF spectrum for voice communications.

*European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC) covers the 27 EU Member States and 15 other states.

IRINA

Air-ground integration and autonomy

IFR RPAS Integration into EuropeaN Airspace

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€4.979.600,01

Remotely-piloted aircraft System (RPAS) is a specific set of unmanned aircraft, which is remotely operated by a pilot in a control station. Managing RPAS traffic is challenging for controllers since RPAS fly significantly slower than conventional jet airliners and experience latency in communicating or loss of communications link with the ground. The project will build on the results of the ERICA project to continue the research work on the integration of IFR RPAS into the airspace, addressing the required infrastructure, services and detect and avoid functionalities.

IFAV3

Capacity on demand and dynamic airspace

INCREASED FLEXIBILITY OF ATCO VALIDATIONS – V3

DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM FUR LUFT - UND RAUMFAHRT EV

€4.701.999,59

Air traffic controllers are a key resource in air traffic management. Deploying controllers more flexibly to specific portions of en-route airspace, sectors and working positions, when and where needed, can help ATM become more resilient and responsive to unexpected events, changes in traffic demand or staff shortages. The project aims to advance the concept behind increased flexibility of controller validations (IFAV) based on technical enablers, such as specific controller assistance systems that provide support on sector specific procedures and rules. The project will focus on the use of IFAV in upper area control and in remote tower centres.

HARMONIC

Civil-military interoperability & coordination

HARMONIsed network through smart technology and Collaboration

EUROCONTROL - EUROPEAN ORGANISATION FOR THE SAFETY OF AIR NAVIGATION

€5.035.794,29

The project completes key aspects of the demand and capacity balancing (DCB) operational concept in those areas where improvements would make the implementation of the operational concept more efficient. Solutions will cover automatic support for spot analysis and resolution, integration of constraints and dynamic airspace configuration (DAC). The overall aim prepare these solutions for early deployment, integrating the new architecture of integrated Network Management (iNM).