Project description
Bridging academia and industry in the air traffic management domain
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (S3JU) is a European partnership between private- and public-sector partners set up to accelerate the delivery of the Digital European Sky through research and innovation. The EU-funded Engage 2 project represents a bridge between academia and industry in the air traffic management (ATM) domain. Its mission is to support S3JU and contribute to the implementation of the SESAR Digital Academy (SDA) to empower the next-generation aviation workforce in the evolving digital economy. Engage 2 builds on the success of the Engage KTN platform. Drawing on lessons learned and adding new partners, the project aims to deliver cross-disciplinary knowledge and research to stimulate inputs from innovative, future scoping and unconventional research into the domain of ATM.
Objective
Based on the experience of the previous Engage Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN), it will support the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (S3JU) and contribute to the development and implementation of the SESAR Digital Academy (SDA), created by SESAR 2020 Joint Undertaking in order to train and inspire the next generation aviation workforce in anticipation of the digital economy. In particular, the consortium will build on the platform of Engage KTN (“Engage”), taking forward the success story of its previous 4.5 years of work, drawing on lessons learned, and complementing the partnership with invaluable new partners. “Engage 2” will build on the existing brand and awareness of the Engage KTN, to deliver excellence across the elements of the expected outcomes, as delineated task-by-task through this proposal. Lean and efficient implementation from a tightly knit and highly effective consortium, whilst ensuring experienced and competent delivery, has enabled Engage 2 to maximise its potential and outreach into the ATM community and beyond, both directly through maximised ‘externalised’ budget (e.g. through PhD funding and catalyst funds) and indirectly (e.g. through continued development of the Engage knowledge hub, or wiki, and its multiple resources). Engage 2 will deliver cross-fertilisation of knowledge from other disciplines to stimulate inputs from innovative, future-scoping and unconventional research into the domain of ATM: a focal point here is the ATM concepts roadmap, which will be developed further as a core element of the Engage wiki. The KTN will continue to forge strong links between research at the leading edge of apposite fields and establish alignment and synergies with the operational challenges facing SESAR.This will be achieved across multiple activities and underpinned by the ‘thematic challenges’ – a key success story of the Engage KTN.
Programme(s)
- HORIZON.2.5 - Climate, Energy and Mobility Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-JU-CSA - HORIZON JU Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
00185 Roma
Italy
The organization defined itself as SME (small and medium-sized enterprise) at the time the Grant Agreement was signed.