Support to programme execution on SESAR architecture and on Strategic deployment planning and monitoring

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Programme Category

EU Competitive Programmes

Programme Name

SESAR Joint Undertaking

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.

Programme Details

Identifier Code

HORIZON-SESAR-2025-DES-IR-02-WA7-2

Call

Support to programme execution on SESAR architecture and on Strategic deployment planning and monitoring

Summary

The scope covers deployment activities on the ATM Master Plan and the support to SESAR architecture activities (i.e., architecture modelling framework and support).

Regarding the support to SESAR 3 JU in the management of the SESAR architecture (e.g., common taxonomy maintenance, content integration analysis, etc.).

Detailed Call Description

The scope covers the following activities:

  • Upon the explicit request of the SESAR 3 JU, maintain architecture modelling methodology and framework and extend it if justified by programme needs (e.g., supporting the cyber risk assessment of supporting assets).
  • Monitor SESAR architecture modelling, consistency / coherency analysis of architectural information, etc., applying the methodology defined and agreed during DES IR1 call activities under project AMPLE-3, and documented in the SESAR project handbook.
  • Monitor and report SESAR architecture progress at programme level, as the architecture modelling point of contact, within each SESAR 3 JU programme management team through monitoring and consolidation of each SESAR Solution architecture.
  • Support to SESAR 3 JU on monitoring the progress of the R&I programme on key dimensions of the ATM Master Plan such as trajectory based operations (TBO), dynamic airspace configuration levels, automation levels, etc.
  • (At the request of the SESAR 3 JU), contribute to maturity gates (as prioritised by SESAR 3 JU) to confirm that performance benefits and architecture progress are not only robust enough, but also aligned to the ATM Master Plan vision (i.e., performance ambitions and benefits, new service delivery model and target architecture), etc.).

On the deployment dimension, this includes supporting the SESAR 3 JU to report on deployment activities in both industrialisation and implementation. To achieve the expected outcomes, the activities to be performed under the leadership of the SESAR 3 JU will focus on the following areas:

Main activities:

  • Support the SESAR 3 JU for the elaboration of the annual strategic deployment monitoring report, covering both voluntary deployment (e.g., by early movers associated to SDOs) and mandatory (e.g., regulated by Common Project CP1) deployment activities in both industrialisation (i.e., standardisation and regulation/certification) and implementation. This report should also establish a clear link and capture synergies with the implementation of the performance scheme and the mechanisms in place to monitor related investments (e.g., Performance Review Body (PRB) annual reports).
  • Encourage market uptake of SESAR Solutions throughout the European network, provide support in updating the SESAR Solutions catalogue and the SESAR 3 JU website, regarding links to deployment, as a communications and dissemination tool.
  • Support market uptake through deployment guidance (e.g., focusing on the human dimension of SDOs, etc.). Support on CBA activities in support of market uptake (e.g., keeping consolidated SDOs CBAs updated and deep-dive on some deployment actions when necessary to support market uptake) developing the required material for supporting decision makers. This may include network impact assessment activities, running integrated simulation on multiple SESAR Solutions, duly replicating observed real world operational environments to assess the impact that they could have at network level.
  • Support SESAR 3 JU in maintaining the links between standardisation and regulatory needs (and corresponding enablers) and the European ATM standards coordination group (EASCG) and the European UAS standards coordination group (EUSCG) rolling plans.

Additional support activities (on the request of the SESAR 3 JU):

  • Support (at the request of the SESAR 3 JU) other ad hoc strategic planning and monitoring activities (e.g., airspace architecture study-type activities, definition of future common project proposals where and when mandated, update of SRIA, etc.).
  • Support the alignment of the ICAO aviation system block upgrade with the evolution of the European ATM Master Plan.
  • Support preparation for performance impact plans on future reference periods (at national and ECAC levels).
  • Support to a potential ATM Mater Plan update campaign.

Call Total Budget

€1.000.000

Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan

A funding rate of 70% applies to all beneficiaries (regardless of their legal status).

Thematic Categories

  • Other Thematic Category
  • Research, Technological Development and Innovation
  • Transport

Eligibility for Participation

  • Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions

Eligibility For Participation Notes

A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects.

Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:

  • beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share, on a royalty-freebasis, 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:

  1. 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;
  2. 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;
  3. 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 the biannual work programme and in the call for proposals.

Beneficiaries must acknowledge these obligations and incorporate them into the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make to meet them.

Call Opening Date

01/04/2025

Call Closing Date

16/09/2025

EU Contact Point

SESAR 3 JU – Helpdesk: info-call@sesarju.eu