Work Package 1 refined the assessment methodology for the state-of-the-art review of safety and security, taking into account the OPTICS lessons learnt and the required adaption to assess security research projects. WP1 defined the methodology used for the integration of the bottom-up and top-down findings. It designed and implemented the Internal Security & Safety OPTICS2 Research Dataset. The refinement of the dataset allowed to collect, organise and assess all the data relative to the project assessed. Based on this work, WP1 produced the yearly release of the Internal Security & Safety OPTICS2 Research Dataset, by aggregating input from Safety and Security Assessments.
Work Package 2 provided on an annual basis a review of the state of the art of safety research and innovation. The state of the art is defined as the current progress towards Flightpath 2050 and intermediate goals. The review considered the specific contribution of EU and national funded research projects. WP2 benchmarked the state of the art of safety research and innovation in Europe against international safety research and innovation. It identified gaps in the current research landscape that could become bottlenecks to innovation and industry uptake and, thus, it formulated specific recommendations accordingly for each Action Area.
Similarly, Work Package 3 provided review of the state-of-the-art of security research, it assessed the contribution of EU and national funded projects towards achieving ACARE goals and other relevant security goals, it benchmarked technological gaps and bottlenecks to innovation and, based on the findings, it formulated specific strategic recommendations for the five security areas considered.
The State-of-the-art review carried out in Y4 included also international benchmarking for both safety and security proojects, as well as considerations on additional metrics: metric 5 (Investment in research) and metric 6 (Research contribution to competitiveness, standards and regulations).
In the four years of the project, OPTICS2 covered and assessed about 402 different projects for Safety and 198 projects for Security for a total of 600 projects.
Work Package 4 listed, contacted and engaged the relevant stakeholders. WP4 defined the scope, objectives and means for Stakeholders’ engagement, in coordination with WP2 and WP3 in order to gain more in-depth understanding of specific issues and to collect their assessment of research benefits and impact. The best format and technique to engage with stakeholders were identified in workshops, roundtable consultations, ad-hoc meetings that were organised and performed to collect and refine findings. Three Workshops were conducted to develop recommendations considering: the input from the review, the assessment of EU research strategy, the international benchmarking, and outcomes of the stakeholders’ engagement. OPTICS2 participated to the activity of ACARE Working Group 4. In addition, a TRA invited sessions and a first “Roundtable Consultation” were organised around particular type of bottleneck / gap identified for research security on Human and Organisational topics.
Work Package 5 worked to raise the awareness on the project activities to all the relevant aviation stakeholders, and supported WP4 activities. WP5 promoted the exploitation of the project results to further guide safety (and relevant security) research policies and research activities in the industrial and scientific domains. Among the producst, we must mention the website and the “OPTICS2 interactive narratives” as well as by participantion to dissemination Events & Networking like the AeroDays 2019 that contributed to the aviation community with the OPTICS2 results in keep improving and maintaining the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and its continued applicability in achieving Flightpath 2050 goals.
