• 10 - 12 March 2020
  • IFEMA
    Madrid
    ,
    Spain
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"Europe for Aviation” teaming up to tackle sustainability, capacity and innovation at the 2020 World ATM Congress 

Important Notice: World ATM Congress cancellation

Due to the inordinate amount of travel restrictions imposed on exhibitors and attendees at both national and organisational levels, ATCA and CANSO have decided to cancel World ATM Congress 2020.

As a consequence, SESAR JU theatre sessions and Walking Tours are also cancelled.

 

The “Europe for Aviation” team, made up of eight European aviation organisations working to implement the Single European Sky (SES) will gather at this year's World ATM Congress, from 10 to 12 March in Madrid, Spain. Over the course of the 3-day Congress, these organisations will showcase how through collaboration they can go much further tackling the most pressing challenges facing aviation, such as sustainability, capacity and innovation.

The “Europe for Aviation” stand and theatre (#849 and #1151) will host a wide range of debates, presentations and guided SESAR walking tours, illustrating the collaboration in action between the European aviation organisations working to implement SES, namely the European Commission, EUROCONTROL, SESAR Joint Undertaking (SESAR JU), SESAR Deployment Manager (SESAR DM), European Union Aviation Safety Agency, European Defence Agency, Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA), and EUROCAE. In doing so, these EU bodies will show how between them they cover the full project management cycle from policy and funding to research and deployment.

Look out for:

  • Official opening by Director General of DG MOVE, Henrik Hololei with high level representatives of each of the participating organisations.
  • A series of briefings on policy developments, such as the Green Deal, SES reform and the future of SESAR, as well as the U-space regulation and the Pilot Common Project review.
  • Technical sessions will also take place to brief audiences on what ATM can do to reduce carbon emissions, the action plan for summer 2020 capacity, SESAR performance, datalink services and ADS-B implementation and cybersecurity.
  • A series of SESAR walking tours on the latest technological advances underway by SESAR partners, and their status in terms of research, development and deployment.
  • Dedicated stand for networking with SES partners, featuring live traffic updates, an airport demo tower, an interactive SESAR wall and virtual reality experiences.

See detailed programme hereunder.

Register at the Congress and gain free access to the “Europe for Aviation” stand and theatre.

Social media: 

Follow #EuropeForAviation for updates from: @Transport_EU @eurocontrol @SESAR_JU @SESAR_DM @EASA ‏ @EUDefenceAgency @INEA_EU @EUROCAE1

Walking Tours

Organised jointly by the SESAR Joint Undertaking and the SESAR Deployment Manager, the walking tours will give visitors an opportunity to meet with experts from the SESAR community and see first-hand the wide variety of solutions that are being delivered and deployed across Europe.

Find hereafter the schedule and description of the walking tours.

In order to participate in the walking tours, visitors must register in advance via:

WALKING TOURS REGISTRATION

Please note that walking tour registrations will close when the maximum capacity is reached (25 visitors per walking tour). 
Walking Tour 1, 3, 7, 10 and 13 have already reached maximum capacity
Make sure not to select walking tours with overlapping schedules. 

Tuesday 10 March, Stand #1151 (Europe for Aviation theatre)

10:10 – 10:45

Nurturing young talent in aviation

With: Luca Crecco, SESAR JU
Floris Herrema, EUROCONTROL
Junzi Sun, TU Delft
11:00-11:45 SESAR Performance

With: Cristobal Millan de La Lastra, INEA
Benoit Fonck, SESAR Joint Undertaking
Mariagrazia La Piscopia, SESAR Deployment Manager
Antoine Hottelart, SESAR Deployment Manager
12:00 – 12:30 Supporting the implementation of a harmonised cybersecurity approach

With:Patrick Mana, EUROCONTROL
12:45 – 13:15

EUROCONTROL’s Network Operational Excellence Programme 
(operational and technical measures to improve the capacity, efficiency and sustainability of the network)

With: Razvan Bucuroiu, EUROCONTROL
Paul Bosman, EUROCONTROL
13:20 – 13:50

U-space – from R&D to industrialisation

With: Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner, Secretary General, European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE)
14:10 – 14:30

OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE “EUROPE FOR AVIATION” STAND

With: Henrik Hololei, Director General Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE), European Commission  
Eamonn Brennan, Director General, EUROCONTROL
Patrick Ky, Executive Director, European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA)
Florian Guillermet, Executive Director, SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU)
Nicolas Warinsko, General Manager, SESAR Deployment Manager (SDM)
Emilio Fajardo, Director Industry, Synergies and Enablers, European Defence Agency (EDA)
Cristobal Millan de La Lastra, Head of Unit, Innovation and Network Executive Agency (INEA) 
Christian Schleifer-Heingärtner, Secretary General, European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE)

Session moderated by Filip Cornelis, European Commission
14:40 – 15:10

The EU Green Deal and Single European Sky reform
 
Interview session with
Henrik Hololei, Director General DG MOVE, European Commission
 Johann Friedrich Colsman, Director General DG Civil Aviation, Germany  

Moderated by Andrew Charlton, Managing Director, Aviation Advocacy
15:20 – 15:50

Future of ATM research in Europe

Panel discussion with
Christine Berg, Head of Single European Sky Unit, European Commission
Peter Hotham, Deputy Executive Director, SESAR Joint Undertaking
            
Moderated by Filip Cornelis, Director Aviation, European Commission
16:00 – 16:30

U-Space: driving innovative and sustainable aviation
Keynote by
Patrick Ky, Executive Director, EASA

Panel discussion with
Eduardo Dominguez Puerta, SVP and Head of UAM
Eduardo García González, Manager European ATM Coordination and Safety, CANSO
Joachim Luecking, Head of Unit Aviation Safety, DG MOVE, European Commission

Moderated by Filip Cornelis, Director Aviation, European Commission  

 

Wednesday 11 March, Stand #1151 (Europe for Aviation theatre)

10:05 – 10:45 

Common Projects: From a Pilot Experience to assured deployment

Panel discussion with :
Erki Must (European Commission)
Mariagrazia La Piscopia (SESAR Deployment Manager)
Luc Laveyne (Senior Advisor ACI Europe - representing the Airports)
Estibaliz Salazar Fernandez (Enaire)
Paul Bosman (Network Manager)
Regina Klotz (Senior Advisor to the A4 Airline Grouping - representing the Airlines)

Moderated by Christine Berg, Head of Single European Sky Unit, European Commission
 
11:00 – 11:30

Master Plan briefing
With:François, Huet, SESAR JU
Hortensia Caballero, SESAR JU
Marie-France Deslandes, EUROCONTROL
11:45– 12:15 What air traffic management can do to reduce aviation emissions
            
With: Eamonn Brennan, Director General, EUROCONTROL
12:45 – 13:15 Break 
13:30 – 14:15

Civil-military collaboration in SESAR

Moderated by the European Defence Agency (EDA)
14:30 – 15:00

European Artificial Intelligence High Level Group Report – exploring the potential of AI to transform aviation
 

Moderated by Paul Bosman, Head of Infrastructure Division, EUROCONTROL
 
15:15 – 15:45 Status of datalink and ADS-B implementation 
Presentations by :
Jose Luis Garcia-Chico, European Commission
Cristian Pradera, SESAR Deployment Manager
16:00 – 16:30 EUROCONTROL Network Manager Action Plan for Summer 2020 
With: Iacopo Prissinotti, Director Network Management Directorate, EUROCONTROL
 
16:45 – 17:15 Releasing capacity and efficiency through automation at Maastricht UAC 
With: Peter Hendrickx, EUROCONTROL MUAC
 

 

Thursday 12 March, Stand #1151 (Europe for Aviation theatre)

10:15 – 10:45 Nurturing young aviation talent in aviation
With:Andreas Hasselberg, SESAR JU
Dimitrios Xenias, JBM
Theo Depresle, SopraSteria
Gianmaria Giaconia, Innov’ATM
11:00 – 11:30 Artificial intelligence at Maastricht UAC 
With: Herbert Naessens, EUROCONTROL MUAC

 

Tour 1 Ensuring the safe and secure integration of drones (U-space)

SESAR JU members and partners are bringing to a close two years of research and development (R&D) on how to integrate safely and securely drones across Europe, within the framework of U-space, an initiative by the European Commission. This tour will present the work of some of these projects addressing the concept of operations for U-space, critical communications, surveillance and tracking, information management and exchange, detect and avoid, and CNS technologies.

 Digitalisation 10.30-12.15

Tour 2 Safer and more efficient airport surface operations

Airport safety is top priority for SESAR R&D and deployment. Far from being a constraint, it is a factor of development. This tour will present the wide range of solutions that have been either delivered or that are in the pipeline. These range from surface management systems to alert pilots of imminent runway collisions, tools to improve the situational awareness of vehicle drivers and affordable AI-enabled video systems for tracking all vehicles. Together these solutions are mitigating the risks of runway incursions, runway excursions and more generally the risk of incidents and accidents involving aircraft, as well as better integrating remotely piloted aircraft and mobiles in the airport environment.

 Digitalisation 10.45-13.15

Tour 3 Virtualisation in tower and radar environments

SESAR R&D has led to the implementation of single remote air traffic control service provision for several small and medium-sized airports in Europe. The tour will present an update on research into remote air traffic services to multiple airports, looking at solution from a technological as well as an operational viewpoint. The tour will also present virtual centres, which decouples data services from physical air traffic service units (ATSUs), and some of the technologies which are being introduced into the human machine interface (HMI) of the controller working position (CWP) to support controllers in dealing with increased traffic and complex operations. Finally, the tour will see how virtualisation meets remote towers, focusing on low-cost solutions for uncontrolled towers

 Digitalisation 11.00-13.30

Tour 4 The role of automation in managing complex traffic

Automation is a key enabler for managing the growing and increasingly complex air traffic across Europe. With automated tools dealing with routine tasks, air traffic controllers can concentrate on those situations where human intervention is most critical. This tour will look at the results from the PROSA project and tools providing resolution advisories and flight trajectory monitoring, and supporting demand and capacity balancing. The project also addresses new ways of working together through changing the traditional setup to multi-planner setup, collaborative control and generic controller validations and speech recognition technologies.

 Digitalisation 11.00-13.45

Tour 5 Enabling the perfect flight (I)

SESAR is playing an important role, alongside other stakeholders in the ATM value chain, to address inefficiencies in air traffic management in order to reduce its environmental impact. This tour looks at some of the solutions that are helping to deliver a “perfect flight” in terms of carbon emissions reduction. These include the latest validations on free route in complex airspace (i.e. cross border) and supporting technologies, as well as the implementation of cross-border arrival management tools to reduce holding times at busy airports

 Environment 11.30-13.30

Tour 6 Enhanced network performance

This tour will present a number of ways in which SESAR partners are delivering enhanced network operations in Europe with a view to improving traffic flow and optimising capacity. These include collaborative advanced planning, solutions to better coordinate short-term ATFCM measures (STAMs), network collaborative management, dynamic cross-border service provision in support of free route, as well as an overview of some of the key technologies and platforms supporting these solutions

 Capacity 11.30-13.45

Tour 7 Intelligent solutions for optimising airspace capacity

Europe’s skies are experiencing unprecedented congestion with traffic is predicted to increase in the coming years. SESAR partners are looking at a portfolio of intelligent solutions that can bring capacity to the airspace in the right place and the right time. These include addressing dynamic airspace configuration, flow management shared trajectory planning, assessing traffic complexity, and using artificial intelligence techniques to improve predictions made by the Network Manager

 Capacity 10.30-12.45

Tour 8 Boosting approach and runway throughput

It is estimated that by 2035, more than 20 airports will be operating at 80% or more of capacity on a daily basis, resulting in delays of up to 5-6 minutes. This session will look at some of the solutions in the pipeline or already delivered improving runway and airport throughput considering wake-vortex, weather, environment and noise, while taking account of different traffic demand, future aircraft capability and airport configurations. Visitors will also get to see an enhanced vision system to enable pilots land in poor weather conditions – a solution of great interest to smaller airports and the business aviation community

 Capacity 10.30-12.15

Tour 9 Communications, navigation and surveillance

The historical national ownership of communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) infrastructure, as well as the need to support a variety of heterogeneously equipped airspace users (civil and military), has led to inefficiencies in the system. In addition, some technologies still in operation have overlapping capabilities and, in a context of steady growth, may not be able to provide the required performance to deliver the SESAR vision. Therefore, the main challenge is to optimise the infrastructure and rationalise it both on the ground and in the air. This tour provide an overview of SESAR’s CNS roadmap, presenting key terrestrial and satellite-based technologies and measures that make up the roadmap

 Digitalisation 11.00-13.15

Tour 10 Ensuring the safe and secure integration of drones (U-space) (II)

SESAR JU members and partners are bringing to a close two years of research and development (R&D) on how to integrate safely and securely drones across Europe, within the framework of U-space, an initiative by the European Commission. This tour will present the work of some of SESAR’s research and demonstrations projects addressing geofencing, integration with manned aviation, surveillance and tracking, detect and avoid, multiple service provision, and urban air mobility operations

 Digitalisation 11.00-12.45

Tour 11 Enabling the perfect flight (II)

SESAR is seeking to bring about a digital transformation in ATM, developing technological solutions that can deliver a “perfect flight” in terms of carbon emissions reduction and that can create a fully connected airspace. This involves advancing innovative solutions to enhance arrivals, departures and runway throughput, as well as to ensure free routing and smoother traffic flows. The tour will give visitors a real taste of the validation and demonstration work undertaken, which has paved the way for the implementation of some of the solutions and which are already bringing benefits

 Environment 14.00-15.45

Tour 12 Harnessing the power of data

Data is at the heart of modern air traffic management. The synchronised exchange of reliable data through system-wide information management ensures more efficient operations during all phases of flight. Making use of data ensures that safe separation of aircraft, while data about the weather can enable better planning and decision making. More data also calls for applications to ensure that systems for conventional ATM and drone traffic are cyber-secure. This tour will showcase some of the solutions developed in SESAR that are harnessing data

 Digitalisation 13.45-16.15

Tour 13 Enabling trajectory-based operations

The global concept of trajectory-based operations (TBO) is a cornerstone of the SESAR vision to optimise the capacity of Europe’s skies, while enabling greener and more predictable air travel. It requires addressing many inter-dependent factors, often conflicting priorities between stakeholders and ultimately a complex overhaul of the ATM system. Progress is being made on some key capabilities and solutions that make TBO possible, such as the interoperability between ground systems, the downlinking of aircraft trajectories into ground systems, the extended management of arrival traffic. The tour showcases on these and hears from airspace users and air navigation service providers on how they are making these TBO enablers operational.

 Capacity 15.00-16.45

Tour 14 Civil-Military collaborations

Europe’s armed forces operate more than 150,000 flights per year. To accommodate certain types of these flights the airspace is segregated sometimes at short notice. Given the growth of air traffic, SESAR is looking at systems and solutions that allow more flexible civil-military collaboration to maximise the use of the airspace. This tour will zoom in on some of these solutions that facilitate this collaboration, such as dynamic airspace configuration and a better integration of military flight plans and dual use of CNS. The tour will also feature a presentation of the impact of digitalisation on military operations.

 Capacity 14.30-16.30