Call for Contributions now open!

Call for Contributions (papers, posters and exhibits): www.sesarju.eu/news/call-contributions-9th-sesar-innovation-days

This year’s SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs) will be hosted by the University of Piraeus and the National Centre of Scientific Research (NCSR) “Demokritos” in Athens, Greece, during the week of 02-06 December 2019. The main conference will take place from 03-05 December and will showcase results from European exploratory research and discuss how to advance promising concepts towards industrial research within the SESAR innovation pipeline. The SIDs are based on an open call soliciting contributions from ATM research. Exhibitions and poster, keynotes and networking events will provide further opportunities to learn about interesting projects and meet like-minded researchers.

Researchers from universities, research institutions, airlines, air traffic service providers and industry are invited to submit papers (up to 8 pages) presenting exploratory research within the areas of interest listed below. Papers will be evaluated based on the innovative nature of the ideas, as well as the approach and methods applied.

Areas of interest include:
● Safety, security and resilience
● Automation, autonomy and robotics
● Human factors and decision support tools
● Uncertainty, applied modelling and optimisation techniques
● Complexity, data science and information management
● Machine learning and artificial intelligence
● Aviation economics and business models
● Legal and regulatory aspects and the ATM innovation process
● ATM operations, architecture and performance
● Airspace design and network and flow management
● High performing airport operations
● Advanced air traffic services
● Innovative approaches in environment and meteorology
● Integrated solutions for communications, navigation and surveillance (iCNS)
● Unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and UAS traffic management

All papers (including SESAR contributions) will be peer-reviewed to ensure that high standards are maintained. The proceedings will be available for download in electronic form on both the event website and SESAR JU website prior to the event. All SIDs papers are listed in Elsevier’s Scopus database. A special edition in a renowned ATM research journal will be published with selected articles from SIDs 2019.

Call for posters and exhibits: partners from academia and industry are invited to submit proposals for posters (max 2 posters per subject) and technical exhibits or demonstrations. As well as showing innovative solutions to traditional problems of air traffic management, posters and exhibits may also address wider air transport and air traffic issues, including drone traffic management. Proposals of one page shall be submitted with a detailed description of the subject matter.

Poster/exhibit submission deadline: 13 September 2019
Paper submission deadline: 27 September 2019

To coordinate with other Engage activities, such as catalyst-funded projects and PhDs, the four-day summer schools will be organised in years 2-4 of the KTN, i.e. August or September of 2019-2021 inclusive.

The first summer school will take place 09-13 September 2019, in Belgrade, Serbia. This will include tutorials on key ATM concepts and challenges as well as on research methodologies, including case studies and presentations of prominent SESAR exploratory research projects.

Further information

● The Engage thematic workshops (details here) kicked-off in autumn 2018 and are linked with the thematic challenges. Further details and booking information for the second series of workshops will be available by 30 August, however the dates, locations and topics are:

05 November 2019, Brussels, Belgium – Efficient provision and use of meteorological information in ATM
12 November 2019, Madrid, Spain – Novel and more effective allocation markets in ATM
02 December 2019, Athens, Greece (co-located with SIDs) – Data-driven trajectory prediction
A fourth, cybersecurity workshop, on Vulnerabilities and global security of the CNS/ATM system, will follow in 2020.

● We’re working on bringing you a comprehensive list of other workshops and events. Meanwhile, please note:

01 July 2019, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 16th Aviation Student Research Workshop
09 July 2019, Brussels, Belgium – CAMERA workshop – Validation of CAMERA methodology
02-10 October 2019, venue TBC, Italy – Convective and Volcanic Clouds detection, monitoring and modeling training school

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