SESAR Innovation Pipeline

The SESAR 3 JU has created an innovation pipeline through which promising ideas are explored and then moved out of the ‘lab’ into real operations. The pipeline consists of four distinct strands:

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SESAR innovation pipeline - 2023 highlights

Get the highlights from some of the SESAR research and development (R&D) activities that took place over the course of 2023. The brochure features updates from each strand of the programme: exploratory research, industrial research and very-large scale demonstrations.

Flagships

To deliver the Digital European Sky, the SESAR JU has designed a portfolio of research and innovation activities for delivering solutions across nine flagships.

conn Connected and automated ATM
The future ATM system will deliver hyper connectivity between all stakeholders (vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-infrastructure) via high bandwidth, low latency fixed and mobile networks. Highly automated systems with numerous actors will interact with each other seamlessly, making the system scalable and even safer than today.
air Air-ground integration and autonomy
The progressive move towards autonomous flying enabled by self-piloting technologies requires a closer integration between vehicle and infrastructure capabilities so that the infrastructure can act as a digital twin of the aircraft.
dynam Capacity-on-demand and dynamic airspace
Technology will enable the dynamic reconfiguration and the activation of cross-border capacity-on-demand services to maintain smooth traffic services at busy times.
u-space U-space and urban air mobility
A digitally native traffic management system will ensure the safe and secure integration of drones in the airspace especially in urban areas, taking into account ew and existing air vehicles and autonomous operations. One of the most challenging use cases from U-space will be to enable urban air mobility, which is expected to advance autonomous technologies in a number of areas.
cyber Virtualisation and cyber-secure data sharing
Service provision will be decoupled from the physical infrastructure, enabling air traffic and data service providers, irrespective of national borders, to plug in their operations where needed in a secure manner.
passenger Multimodality and passenger experience
Considering ATM to be an integrated part of an intermodal transport system will make it possible to share data between modes and to collaborate better to optimise the performance of both the overall transport system and the door-to-door journey.
green Aviation green deal
Europe should be the world’s most environmentally-friendly continent to fly. This requires putting in place solutions to enable aircraft to fly their optimum fuel-efficient 4D trajectory gate-to-gate, and integrating next generation aircraft that will be cleaner and quieter.
AI Artificial intelligence (AI) for aviation
Tomorrow's aviation infrastructure will be more data-intensive. Thanks to the pplication of machine learning, deep learning and big data analytics, we will be able to design an ATM system that is smarter and safer by constantly analysing and learning from the ATM environment.
mil Civil/Military interoperability and coordination
Dual-use technologies such as those for communications, navigation and surveillance, and other solutions that allow real-time exchange of trajectory information will improve the predictability of military operations and overall network capacity.

Projects Portal

The SESAR 3 JU Projects Portal provides all information about the projects currently underway in the Digital European Sky research and innovation programme (2021 – 2028). The portal also provides information about completed projects from SESAR 2020 (2017 – 2023). Filter with ease the contents to access quickly the projects that interest you most!

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SESAR Solutions

SESAR Solutions refer to new or improved operational procedures or technologies that aim to contribute to the modernisation of the European and global ATM system.  Framed within the European ATM Master Plan, these solutions address all parts of the ATM value chain, from airports, air traffic services to the network, as well as the underlying systems architectures and technological enablers, which are validated in real day-to-day operations.