Engage was the SESAR Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) from 2018 to 2022. The KTN was managed by a consortium of academia and industry, supporting the SESAR Joint Undertaking (SJU), to promote and facilitate the development of air traffic management research in Europe. The focus was two-fold: inspiring new researchers and helping to align exploratory and industrial research, through a wide range of activities and financial support actions.
Engage was coordinated by the University of Westminster, with the Innaxis Research Institute, University of Trieste, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Transport and Traffic Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Frequentis, EUROCONTROL and the European Aviation Safety Agency as consortium members.
The objectives of Engage were to:
* Stimulate the transfer of exploratory research towards ATM application-oriented research by directly supporting the development to higher-maturity results.
* Support European ATM education and training in the community by developing new talent with a deep knowledge of future scientific research needs; to thus sustain and stimulate the next generation of ATM operational and engineering staff.
* Build an inspiring and user-friendly ATM observatory (wiki) to monitor, identify and analyse relevant new opportunities for innovative ATM research, with a repository to host reports and publications, plus a roadmap of innovative and interdisciplinary ATM concepts (beyond SESAR 2020) and an interactive research map.
* Deliver high quality communication and dissemination activities, both on-line (e.g. website and social media) and physical (e.g. organising workshops), whilst also supporting SJU initiatives such as the organisation of the SESAR Innovations Days and coordination with the SESAR 2020 Scientific Committee.
