SESAR technologies bring an array of benefits for transport that can be integrated into the longer term strategy for Europe’s mobility post 2020. The European Commission’s Flightpath 2050, Europe’s vision for long term air transport in 2050, addressed the future research challenges and broadened the scope of the former ACARE (Advisory Council for Aeronautics Research in Europe) * work. SESAR ( Patrick Ky) was a core member of the High Level Group on Aviation Research, the ‘authors’ of this vision, which now steers aeronautical research towards a more global air transport orientation, enhancing the “societal benefits” dimension and improving links with the other transport modes. SESAR is chairing one of the main working groups to define this new European air transport research and innovation perspective. This “mobility” working group will play a key role in the elaboration of the future long term research strategy for Air traffic management as well as placing aviation in a global, intermodal context that will put the air transport passenger/customer at the core of the system. The work will form part of the Commission Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda, incorporating the elements of its policy on “Horizon 2020” and the Future of Transport White Paper, for release by mid 2012.