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SESAR Innovation Days 2022

The SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs) are the main vehicle for SESAR Joint Undertaking to share progress and disseminate exploratory research results. Unlike other scientific events in air traffic management (ATM) research, the SIDs focus explicitly on exploratory research. Organised annually since 2011, the SIDS have become a landmark event in the European aviation research calendar.

The 12th edition of the SIDs will be held on 05-08 December 2022 and hosted by HungaroControl at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.

With the event coinciding with the closure of several SESAR 2020 research projects, the 2022 event promises to be a valuable event, showcasing the latest research and innovation results and reflecting Europe’s commitment to the long-term sustainability of the aviation industry, as well as its recovery from the Covid-19 crisis.

The SIDs are based on an open Call soliciting contributions from the ATM research community. Exhibitions and poster, keynotes and several networking events will provide further opportunities to learn about interesting projects and meet like-minded researchers.

Once again, this year’s SIDs will host the annual Young Scientist Award, recognising young scientists, who have demonstrated excellence in ATM and aviation-related research fields.

Registration

Engage thematic workshops

● The Engage thematic workshops (details here) kicked-off in autumn 2018 and are linked with the thematic challenges. The final series of workshops were held in 2021:

21 June 2021, virtual event – Engage workshop – Economic incentives for future ATM implementation – programme
03 September 2021, virtual event – Engage workshop – AI, ML and Automation – programme
09 September 2021, virtual event – Engage workshop – Efficient provision and use of MET information in ATM – programme
15 September 2021, virtual event – Engage workshop – Vulnerabilities and global security of the CNS/ATM system – programme

Other workshops and webinars

18 October 2022, virtual event – SESAR Deployment Manager workshop – ADS-B implementation
25 October 2022, Paris, France – Modus final results workshop
25-26 October 2022, Forlì, Italy – SESAR PJ05-W2 – Digital Technologies for Tower open day on validation exercises
03-04 November 2022, Rome, Italy – Artimation, Mahalo, INVIRCAT, URClearED, SAFELAND, SafeOPS joint event – RPAS and AI in Aviation
09 November 2022, Toulouse, France – Artimation and AEON final event – Increasing automation in ATM and airport operations
10 November 2022, virtual event – ACI EUROPE-SESAR webinar – SESAR and multimodality: for an optimal door-to-door journey
25 November 2022, Brussels, Belgium – TRANSIT and IMHOTEP joint event – Passenger-centric planning and management of multimodal transport networks
02 December 2022, virtual event – SESAR PJ.14-W2 I-CNSS navigation webinar
12 December 2022, virtual event – SESAR PJ.33-W3 FALCO open day: increased flexibility in ATCO validation
14 December 2022, virtual event – Flying Forward 2020, AiRMOUR and AURORA joint event – Navigating the opportunities and obstacles in UAM: First findings from hands-on practical experience with use cases
14 December 2022, virtual event – SESAR joint open day on future communication technologies: FCI, LDACS complement and SATCOM (PJ.14-W2-77, PJ.14-W2-60, PJ.33-W3-02, PJ.14-W2-107)
14 February 2023, Vienna, Austria – SESAR VLD3-W2 SORT visitor day for “Wake Decay Enhancing Concepts”
28-29 March 2023, Brétigny, France – SESAR PJ.02-W2 AART project final event

SESAR Digital Academy

(all times CET/CEST unless stated)

● Exploring the boundaries of ATM sessions (replay webinar):
15 June 2020 11.00-12.00: Project results on enabling trajectory-based operations
23 June 2020 10.00-11.00: ATM architecture and CNS

● Nurturing Young Talent sessions (replay webinar):
29 June 2020 10.00-11.00: Recognising excellence through the SESAR Young Scientist Award
30 June 2020 11.00-12.00: A look back on the Digital Sky Challenge Hackathon

● Digitalising Europe’s Aviation Infrastructure sessions (replay webinar):
30 June 2020 15.00-16.00: The European ATM Master Plan in a nutshell

● Towards higher levels of automation (replay webinar):
22 July 2020 09.30-11.00: Artificial Intelligence (part 1)
24 July 2020 09.30-11.00: Artificial Intelligence (part 2)

● Virtualisation (replay webinar):
15 September 2020 10.00-11.30: Remote Towers
29 September 2020 10.00-11.30: Virtual Centres

● Digitalising Europe’s Aviation Infrastructure sessions (replay webinar):
06 October 2020 10.30-12.00: A holistic approach towards CNS
22 October 2020 14.00-15.30: Exploring the future vision and technological innovations in CNS

● U-space (replay webinar):
12 November 2020 10.30-12.00: SESAR U-space consolidated research results

● Smart and sustainable solutions for greener ATM (replay webinar):
19 November 2020 14.30-16.00: Greener airport operations
04 December 2020 14.30-16.00: Greener arrivals and departures
14 December 2020 14.30-16.00: Greener en-route

● Cyber Security (replay webinar):
25 February 2021 14.00-15.30: ATM cyber-security – The industry perspective

● Innovation in airspace utilisation:
29 April 2021 14.30-16.00: Innovation in airspace utilisation (replay session)
11 May 2021 14.30-16.00: Automated Speech Recognition for Air Traffic Control (replay session)

● Smarter, safer and more efficient arrivals:
28 September 2021 14.30-16.00: Smarter, safer and more efficient arrivals (part 1) (replay session)
21 October 2021 14.30-16.00: Smarter, safer and more efficient arrivals (part 2) (replay session)

● SESAR performance framework:
24 March 2022 14.30-16.00: Unpacking SESAR’s performance measurement framework (replay session)

● Resilience:
28 April 2022 14.30-16.00: Innovative solutions for ATM Resilience (replay session)

Conferences

12 October 2022, Brussels, Belgium – SESAR 3 JU 1st Annual Conference
18-20 October 2022, Toulouse, France – Towards Sustainable Aviation Summit (TSAS 2022)
18-21 October 2022, Barcelona, Spain – 12th EASN International Conference
10-11 November 2022, Delft, The Netherlands – 10th OpenSky Symposium
14-17 November 2022, Lisbon, Portugal – Transport Research Arena (TRA2022)
17-18 November 2022, Bari, Italy – Drones Beyond. 2022: Urban Air Mobility – Evolutions and perspectives
29-30 November 2022, Brussels, Belgium – EU Drone Days (incl. launch of the European Drone Strategy 2.0 and U-space Showcase)
30 November – 01 December 2022, Heilbronn, Germany – 10th European Aviation Conference (EAC)
30 November – 01 December 2022, Prague, Czech Republic – 2022 EASA Annual Safety Conference – Airport Safety & Environmental Sustainability through Innovation
05-08 December 2022, Budapest, Hungary – SESAR Innovation Days 2022
08-09 December 2022, Brétigny-Sur-Orge, France – 1st EUROCONTROL Environmental Impact Assessment Forum
22-23 March 2023, Brussels, Belgium and virtual – Clean Aviation Annual Forum
23-24 March 2023, Cologne, Germany – 1st European_Academia @EASA conference 2023
30-31 March 2023, Toulouse, France – 4th Symposium on Aviation Research (SoAR)
16-19 April 2023, Bertinoro, Italy – 3rd Aerospace PhD Days 2023
05-09 June 2023, Savannah, USA – 15th USA/Europe ATM R&D Seminar
03-05 July 2023, Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 11th EUROSIM Congress

Summer schools

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

The first summer school took place 09-13 September 2019, in Belgrade, Serbia. This included 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 about the first summer school.

The second summer school was rescheduled due to COVID-19 and held virtually 21-25 September 2020. Further information about the second summer school.

The third summer school was held virtually 30 August – 02 September 2021. Further information about the third summer school.

Competitions and awards

SESAR Young Scientist Award 2022

The SESAR Young Scientist Award 2022 aims to recognise young scientists, who have demonstrated excellence in ATM and aviation-related research fields. The award also provides researchers starting out in their career with an opportunity for further professional development. A further objective of the award is to showcase the potential of young talent to formulate fresh ideas and solutions to the challenges facing ATM and aviation.

The 2022 edition of the award is open to two categories:
● PhD scientists; with the chance to receive a prize of EUR 5000
● Undergraduate and Masters students; with the chance to win a prize of EUR 1500

Contributions are welcome from citizens or residents in an EU Member State or an Associated Country to the Horizon 2020 Research and Development Framework Programme (Horizon 2020).

Up to three short-listed candidates for each category will be invited to join the SESAR Innovation Days 2022, where the winner of each category will be publicly announced during a dedicated ceremony.

The deadline for applications closed on 04 September 2022

Contest rules and how to apply

Courses

Please browse the Engage wiki for a list of undergraduate programmes relating to air transport engineering and aviation management, and postgraduate programmes that perform ATM-related research (regardless of the main research field).

Jobs and internships

Jobs and internships have been moved to the Engage wiki.

This project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 783287.

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