STARGATE is the response of a consortium of 22 entities led by Brussels Airport committing to create green airports as multimodal hubs for sustainable and smart mobility. STARGATE follows an ambitious strategy to impactfully contribute to the strengthening of the competitiveness of the European air transport ecosystem. The mission of the STARGATE consortium is to develop, test and deploy a set of innovative solutions making the airport ecosystem significantly more sustainable. Our vision is to build with STARGATE a benchmark and be source of inspiration to other airports in Europe and the world.
STARGATE is grounded on five main pillars. The first one is the application of a Digital Twin ecosystem for airports and extensive development to model the Lighthouse Airport, its transport flows, airport process, energy production and supply and emissions management. The second, important pillar is the focus on multimodal, sustainable and smart mobility through an innovative mobility governance practice to create an intermodal hub, and dedicated tools to enhance digitalisation and decarbonisation of transport for both people and goods. Aim is to create an intermodal product that is up to standard. Third, the optimisation of terminal operations, including the deployment of a Terminal Command Centre, a novel approach to circular resource management and the minimisation of resources and waste generated. The fourth pillar tackles the investigation in the energy field and production and use of SAF. Finally, the fifth pillar covers cross-cutting aspects such as minimisation of noise and emissions, assessing non-technological framework conditions and promoting new multi-actor governance arrangements. The STARGATE project will serve as a valuable tool for the EU to reach the Green Deal Plan bold targets of 55% carbon emission reduction by 2030 and a carbon net-zero region by 2050.
STARGATE sets out the following 7 overarching objectives:
1) Provide the airport sector with a set of real-life tested innovative initiatives aimed at significant and feasible decarbonization of the airport activity.
2) Create a Digital Twin offering for airports to enable the transition towards a Net-Zero-Carbon airport.
3) Demonstrate and validate innovative initiatives at the Lighthouse airport
4) Replicate the results in the Fellow Airports
5) Build new business models to enable feasible replication and scalability
6) Set up new methods of sustainable integration of the airport within its surrounding communi-ties, minimising the environmental negative impact
7)Communicate, disseminate results, building knowledge and cooperation
