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Programme Name
Programme Description
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is an institutionalised European partnership between private and public sector partners set up to accelerate through research and innovation the delivery of the Digital European Sky.
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Summary
WA1 (ATM excellent science and outreach) comprises the exploratory research activities necessary to develop new concepts for ATM beyond those identified in the European ATM Master Plan and will help to develop emerging technologies and methods to the level of maturity required to feed the applied research conducted by the SESAR 3 JU. WA1 covers innovative content at pre‐TRL1 (TRL0) maturity level and the minimum target maturity level is to complete TRL1.
The Digital European Sky vision aims at removing the close coupling of ATM service provision to the ATS systems and operational procedures. The challenge is to propose innovative (or unconventional) ideas that will enable data-sharing, foster a more dynamic and resilient airspace management and ATM service provision, allowing air traffic service units (ATSU) to improve capacity in portions of airspace where traffic demand exceeds the available capacity. A more flexible use of external data services, considering data properties and access rights, would allow the infrastructure to be rationalised, reducing the related costs. The proposed solutions shall aim at rationalising and harmonising the ATM infrastructure while reducing the defragmentation. Virtualization solutions shall aim at completely decoupling ATM service provision from the physical location of the personnel and equipment, while scaling up and down of system performance in quasi-real time, as and when required.
Detailed Call Description
The SESAR 3 JU has identified the following innovative research elements that could be used to meet the challenge described above and achieve the expected outcomes.
- Quantum computing in ATM. Research aims at exploring how quantum computing could be applied in ATM and how it could impact ATM. The definition of potential measures to mitigate such impact (e.g., the impact of quantum computing on future security needs in ATM, etc.) is also under scope.
- Distributed/federated simulation in ATM. This research element focuses on the use of distributed/federated simulations in ATM as a means of boosting participant numbers by being location and time-zone independent and allowing for a more flexible and iterative design process, especially for design evaluation in the lower maturity phases of system development.
- ATM data management. Proposals should describe a specific ATM data management challenge, selecting one or more ways to store (e.g., data spaces), buy (e.g., data markets) and transmit ATM data so that the security and traceability is improved and propose a plan to validate the relevant hypothesis.
- Cyber threat intelligence services in aviation. Research may address dynamic risk assessment (DRA) and business impact assessment (BIA) techniques and improve information sharing and federated learning architectures aimed at anomaly detection.
- ATM digital transformation. Research aims at advancing towards the digital transformation in ATM facilitating data exchange and decision-making thanks to innovative, unconventional and breakthrough solutions at all stages of the lifecycle, from research using open science frameworks, through to tactical and operational optimisation.
- Enhanced techniques to empower NM operations. Research aims also at investigating how business intelligence strategies and technologies can be applied to improve the efficiency, stability and resilience of the network through data analysis of business information (R&I need: free flow of data among trusted users across borders).
- Innovation in route-charging schemes. This research element addresses how the route charging and cost-recovery mechanisms should evolve in order to move towards a service oriented provision scheme and how to better connect technological innovation with the SES performance scheme. Proposals addressing this area may build on this previous research or propose other innovative charging schemes (e.g., modulation of charges).
Call Total Budget
Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 1 is €1 000 000.
The maximum expected EU contribution per project for each of the topics under Work Area 2 is €2 000 000.
Thematic Categories
- Information Technology
- Other Thematic Category
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
Eligibility For Participation Notes
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:
- Beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share, on a royalty-free basis, in a timely manner and as appropriate, all relevant results with the other grants awarded under the same call;
- Beneficiaries must acknowledge these obligations and incorporate them into the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make to meet them, and into Annex I to the grant agreement.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional exploitation obligations:
- beneficiaries must make available for reuse under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions all relevant results generated, through a well-defined mechanism using a trusted repository;
- if the purpose of the specific identified measures to exploit the results of the action is related to standardisation, beneficiaries must grant a non-exclusive licence to the results royalty-free;
- if working on linked actions, beneficiaries must ensure mutual access to the background to and to the results of ongoing and closed linked actions, should this be necessary to implement tasks under the linked actions or to exploit results generated by the linked actions as defined in the conditions laid down in this biannual work programme and in the call for proposals.
Call Opening Date
Call Closing Date
EU Contact Point
SESAR 3 JU
Email: info-call@sesarju.eu