The SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU) is delighted to announce that the 2017 SESAR JU Award for Young Scientists is now open for applications.

The SESAR Young Scientist Award, aims to recognise young scientists with high potential contributing to any SESAR activity by supporting the scientific development of “Air Traffic Management and Enabling Technologies”. In addition, the award also provides a mechanism for further personal development.

Candidates must be a Young Scientist who has contributed to scientific achievements within a Bachelor or Master Thesis (which must have been completed not more than 2 years ago) or part of an on-going PhD, and who are resident of an EU Member State or an Associated Country to the Horizon2020 Research and Development Framework Programme (H2020). The Young Scientist applying must be able to show scientific achievement that is clearly relevant to the Single European Sky (SES) and in particular SESAR, covering ATM, related Airport and Air Vehicle areas of research.

A full description of the contest rules can be found here . If you wish to present your candidacy for this Award, please prepare a complete Application as described in the contest rules as well as a Declaration of Honour and send both documents to: [email protected]

The SESAR Young Scientist Award will be awarded at the 2017 SESAR Innovation Days, taking place in Belgrade from 28 – 30 November 2017. See www.sesarju.eu/sesarinnovationdays for more information.

The deadline for applications was 1 October 2017.

Registrations are now closed