HORIZON EUROPE
European
Specific Challenge:This topic looks at the development of innovative concepts air traffic services with the objective of enabling the extension of air traffic services beyond what is possible today.
The evolution of demand for new kind of operations made possible by new technologies requires air traffic services to evolve accordingly. This topic develops applications to cater to emerging challenges and opportunities, like the advent of very-high level operations, the need to respond to the demand for civilian formation flying, or the reduced dependence on the magnetic compass for navigation.
Scope:The objective is for the exploratory research projects to support the development of the concept of operations, rather than the enablers required to support it. The link to the European ATM Master Plan must be addressed.
The following two innovative areas of interest have been identified by the SESAR Joint Undertaking:
Application area 1: ‘Higher airspace’ operations
Demand for use of very high-level airspace has increased in the last years, and this trend is expected to gain momentum in the coming years. ICAO has pr...
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Specific Challenge:This topic looks at the development of innovative concepts air traffic services with the objective of enabling the extension of air traffic services beyond what is possible today.
The evolution of demand for new kind of operations made possible by new technologies requires air traffic services to evolve accordingly. This topic develops applications to cater to emerging challenges and opportunities, like the advent of very-high level operations, the need to respond to the demand for civilian formation flying, or the reduced dependence on the magnetic compass for navigation.
Scope:The objective is for the exploratory research projects to support the development of the concept of operations, rather than the enablers required to support it. The link to the European ATM Master Plan must be addressed.
The following two innovative areas of interest have been identified by the SESAR Joint Undertaking:
Application area 1: ‘Higher airspace’ operations
Demand for use of very high-level airspace has increased in the last years, and this trend is expected to gain momentum in the coming years. ICAO has provisionally adopted the term ‘higher airspace’ to refer to that volume of airspace between airspace where ATM provides services (typical upper level of FL600) and the boundary between airspace and space (approximately 100 km). AU operating in this airspace are sometimes referred to as ‘New Entrants’, and have many different operating characteristics, such as unmanned HALE vehicles providing internet coverage or surveillance over large areas and Unmanned Free Balloons (UFB), as well as manned sub-orbital flights for leisure or scientific purposes (e.g. experiments, films or tourism at zero gravity) and supersonic or hyper-sonic passenger aircraft. This volume of airspace will, therefore, be used by all classes of air vehicle, from static, barely manoeuvrable unmanned balloons, through high-speed passenger aircraft to rapidly-climbing rockets.
Although State and commercial space launchers will transit this volume of airspace, space operations, or ‘space traffic control’, are not in the scope of this topic. However, research should reflect that higher airspace is capable of allowing such operations to proceed without undue hindrance to them, and without adversely affecting the safety of higher-airspace vehicles.
The management of higher airspace is only just being considered by ICAO, and even its vertical boundaries are, as yet, undefined. The exploitation of space is a politically very sensitive issue and so research into this topic, at the boundary with space, should consider, inter alia, political sensitivities, operational concepts and CNS issues, while performing a thorough, global analysis of operational and business needs.
Proposals need to plan effort for:
Ad-hoc participation in the European Commission New Entries working group.Developing the European Concept of Operations for Higher-Airspace operations, or supporting its development if such an initiative has already commenced in the context of the European Commission New Entries working group.Addressing the link with the European ATM Mater Plan and the SESAR Concept of Operations. Proposals addressing this application area must plan the following milestones:
A public deliverable should be delivered to the SJU 12 months after the start of the project describing the current global demand for higher-airspace operations, how States and businesses are addressing it, and their interface with space agencies and operations, with the aim of generating a detailed picture of demand, barriers, opportunities and possibilities. This deliverable should be presented in a public event with the objective of collecting feedback on how this demand can be best addressed.A public deliverable with the report of the project’s analysis of the feedback collected during the event with recommendations for further work in the area should be delivered 14 months after the start of the project. The work in the last ten months of the research activities should be focused on developing or supporting the development of the European Concept of Operations for Higher-Airspace operations, potentially including in-depth concept development to address one or more of the challenges that are specific to high-level operations.
Application area 2: Moving from magnetic to geographic bearings
Even though the magnetic compass is not as essential to navigation as it used to be, magnetic bearings are still the main reference in aeronautical charts and runway markings, and all aircraft feature magnetic deviation plates, and changes of deviation require periodic update of charts, plates and runway markings. It has been suggested that moving to geographic bearings may enable significant cost savings, and also be advantageous for operations in polar routes, for which demand has already increased and is expected to continue to do so. The research challenge is to investigate whether this would be a feasible alternative in the medium- to long-term future, and if so identify the operational changes that would be required and perform an initial high-level identification of the potential benefits.
Please note that this list of innovative areas is not intended as prescriptive; bids addressing alternative areas of innovation in air traffic services are welcome, provided adequate justification and background are provided in the bid.
Proposals must demonstrate operational knowledge of current operations, familiarity with the aspects of the SESAR concept of operations that will be impacted by the innovative concept and an understanding of the innovative concept and the related state-of-the-art.
It is expected that the development of the new concept of operations will need to start with an in-depth analysis of the state-of-the-art through literature review and interviews to relevant experts, followed by workshops with experts and stakeholders to discuss the future operational concept. The conduct of model-based simulations should neither be the main objective of the project nor take most of the effort, limited model based simulations may be used if adequately justified, e.g. to support quantification of benefits of formation flying.
The output of the project must be a high-level concept of operations describing an innovative air traffic service application. The objective of the concept of operations is to provide a vision of how the innovative concept will work within the current system and how it will change the operations from the point of view of all stakeholders. By its nature, the final concept of operations deliverable must be public. It is expected that intermediate deliverables supporting the development of the concept of operations (e.g. literature reviews, reports of workshops or interviews) will usually also be marked as public unless there is a specific reason for not doing so. Proposal including any deliverables as confidential are strongly advised to provide adequate justification for the need for confidentiality.
Expected Impact:Research in innovative Air Traffic Services concepts will support the development of the SESAR concept of operations in support of the objective of the ATM Master Plan and ACARE Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.
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Consortium characteristics
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The aid is European, you can apply to this line any company that is part of the European Community.
characteristics of the Proyecto
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La subcontratación en ayudas europeas no debe tratarse del core de actividades de I+D del proyecto. El contratista debe ser seleccionado por el beneficiario de acuerdo con el principio de mejor relación calidad-precio bajo las condiciones de transparencia e igualdad (en ningún caso consistirá en solicitar menos de 3 ofertas). En el caso de entidades públicas, para la subcontratación se deberán de seguir las leyes que rijan en el país al que pertenezca el contratante
Characteristics of financing
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 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the H2020 Work Programme and in the SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021.
Proposal page limits and layout:
The title, list of participants and sections 1, 2 and 3, together, should not be longer than 35 pages, as established in the Call conditions for this call.
Please note that this page limit is lower than the standard one for Research and Innovation Actions.
Please refer to Part B of the SJU proposal template in the electronic submission system.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in the SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual.
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreement:
... 1. List of countries and applicable rules for funding: described in Annex A of the H2020 Work Programme and in the SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021.
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 2020 projects. See the information in the Online Manual.
2. Eligibility and admissibility conditions: described in Annex B and Annex C of the H2020 Work Programme and in the SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021.
Proposal page limits and layout:
The title, list of participants and sections 1, 2 and 3, together, should not be longer than 35 pages, as established in the Call conditions for this call.
Please note that this page limit is lower than the standard one for Research and Innovation Actions.
Please refer to Part B of the SJU proposal template in the electronic submission system.
3. Evaluation:
Evaluation criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in the SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021.
Submission and evaluation processes are described in the Online Manual.
4. Indicative time for evaluation and grant agreement:
Information on the outcome of single-stage evaluation: maximum 5 months from the deadline for submission.
Signature of grant agreements: maximum 8 months from the deadline for submission.
5. Proposal templates, evaluation forms and model grant agreements (MGA):
SESAR JU Research and Innovation Action (SESAR-RIA)
Specific rules and funding rates
Proposal templates are available after entering the submission tool below.
ER4 Proposal templates
SESAR JU MGA - Multi-Beneficiary
H2020 Annotated Grant Agreement
6. Additional requirements:
The SESAR JU considers that proposals addressing topics in Work Area 2 can request a contribution from the EU between EUR 1.000.000 minimum and EUR 2.000.000 maximum and should end no later than Q4 2022 (including 6 months for dissemination activities after delivering final results). These conditions are intended to allow the specific challenges to be addressed appropriately.
Horizon 2020 budget flexibility
Classified information
Financial support to Third Parties
Members of consortium are required to conclude a consortium agreement, in principle prior to the signature of the grant agreement.
7. Open access must be granted to all scientific publications resulting from Horizon 2020 actions.
Where relevant, proposals should also provide information on how the participants will manage the research data generated and/or collected during the project, such as details on what types of data the project will generate, whether and how this data will be exploited or made accessible for verification and re-use, and how it will be curated and preserved.
Open access to research data
The Open Research Data Pilot has been extended to cover all Horizon 2020 topics for which the submission is opened on 26 July 2016 or later. Projects funded under this topic will therefore by default provide open access to the research data they generate, except if they decide to opt-out under the conditions described in Annex L of the H2020 main Work Programme. Projects can opt-out at any stage, that is both before and after the grant signature.
Note that the evaluation phase proposals will not be evaluated more favourably because they plan to open or share their data, and will not be penalised for opting out.
Open research data sharing applies to the data needed to validate the results presented in scientific publications. Additionally, projects can choose to make other data available open access and need to describe their approach in a Data Management Plan.
Projects need to create a Data Management Plan (DMP), except if they opt-out of making their research data open access. A first version of the DMP must be provided as an early deliverable within six months of the project and should be updated during the project as appropriate. The Commission already provides guidance documents, including a template for DMPs. See the Online Manual.
Eligibility of costs: costs related to data management and data sharing are eligible for reimbursement during the project duration.
The legal requirements for projects participating in this pilot are in the article 29.3 of the Model Grant Agreement.
8. Additional documents
Please read carefully all documents below before the preparation of your application. The key reference documents below set out the purpose and scope of the Exploratory Research 4 Call for Proposals and describe the activities that will be implemented via the resulting Grant Agreements as well as the conditions for participation and award.
SJU Single Programming Document 2019-2021
Project Handbook of SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research Call ER4 - Programme Execution Guidance
Technical Specification of SESAR 2020 Exploratory Research 4 Call - ER4
ATM Master Plan
Communication Guidelines S2020 Projects
Frequently Asked Questions & Answers (all updates are constantly reflected in the document)
H2020 Regulation of Establishment
H2020 Rules for Participation
H2020 Specific Programme
Additional information about the call
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