European UnionDeadline PassedNon-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
Support to programme execution on SESAR architecture and on Strategic deployment planning and monitoring
HORIZON-SESAR-2025-DES-IR-02-WA7-2 Coordination and Support Actions
Funding Amount
€500K - €1.0M
Deadline
16/09/2025
Eligible Organization Types
Non-profit, Private Business, Research Institution, Public Institution, Other
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What is the Support to programme execution on SESAR architecture and on Strategic deployment planning and monitoring Call?
Grant Description
Support to SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking for coordination and support actions to maintain and develop the SESAR architecture modelling framework, monitor and report progress of the ATM Master Plan deployment, prepare annual strategic deployment monitoring reports, facilitate market uptake of Strategic Deployment Objectives through guidance, cost–benefit analysis and simulation studies, coordinate standardisation and regulatory efforts, and perform ad hoc strategic planning and monitoring activities ...
Required Results for Successful Funding
Expected Outcomes
• A consistent SESAR architecture design (and modelling, where necessary) tightly integrated across the programme.
• Regulatory frameworks for Future Common Projects that support synchronised and harmonised roll-out of Strategic Deployment Objectives (SDOs) at European level.
• Active involvement of the ATM workforce through professional staff in deployment planning, training and engagement, ensuring social acceptance of SDO-driven changes.
• Accelerated market deployment of priority SDO elements by a critical mass of early movers.
• Enhanced technical coordination by SESAR 3 JU with key stakeholders (EASA, SDM, EUROCAE, EDA, CNS Programme and Network Managers) and improved strategic-level reporting to the Governing Board on prioritised deployment activities.
• Full alignment of EASA’s European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS) and its standardisation framework with the priorities and timelines of the European ATM Master Plan.
• Co-ordination and synergy among SES policy instruments from Reference Period 4 to promote investments in SDOs.
• Recognition of ATM functionalities requiring global harmonisation in the ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP), promoting adaptation of the global regulatory framework to European SDO priorities.
• Regulatory frameworks for Future Common Projects that support synchronised and harmonised roll-out of Strategic Deployment Objectives (SDOs) at European level.
• Active involvement of the ATM workforce through professional staff in deployment planning, training and engagement, ensuring social acceptance of SDO-driven changes.
• Accelerated market deployment of priority SDO elements by a critical mass of early movers.
• Enhanced technical coordination by SESAR 3 JU with key stakeholders (EASA, SDM, EUROCAE, EDA, CNS Programme and Network Managers) and improved strategic-level reporting to the Governing Board on prioritised deployment activities.
• Full alignment of EASA’s European Plan for Aviation Safety (EPAS) and its standardisation framework with the priorities and timelines of the European ATM Master Plan.
• Co-ordination and synergy among SES policy instruments from Reference Period 4 to promote investments in SDOs.
• Recognition of ATM functionalities requiring global harmonisation in the ICAO Global Air Navigation Plan (GANP), promoting adaptation of the global regulatory framework to European SDO priorities.
Funded areas
Scope Requirements
• Deployment activities supporting the ATM Master Plan and technical support to SESAR architecture (taxonomy maintenance, content integration analysis).
• Upon explicit SESAR 3 JU request: maintain and, if justified, extend architecture modelling methodology and framework.
• Monitor and analyse consistency/coherency of architecture modelling, applying the agreed DES IR 1 methodology (project AMPLE-3) and SESAR project handbook.
• Monitor and report architecture progress at programme level, liaising with each SESAR 3 JU programme management team to consolidate SESAR Solution architectures.
• Support monitoring of R&I programme performance on key ATM Master Plan dimensions (TBO, dynamic airspace, automation levels).
• Contribute to maturity gate reviews to confirm robustness of performance benefits and alignment with ATM Master Plan vision and target architecture.
• Support reporting of deployment activities in industrialisation and implementation phases, including standardisation, certification, and operational roll-out.
• Lead and deliver the annual strategic deployment monitoring report covering voluntary and mandatory deployments, with clear linkages to the performance scheme and investment monitoring mechanisms.
• Encourage market uptake: maintain SESAR Solutions catalogue, website updates, and communicate deployment priorities; produce deployment guidance focusing on human and organisational dimensions.
• Support cost-benefit analysis: maintain consolidated SDO CBAs, perform focused assessments, network impact simulations, and integrated operational simulations.
• Maintain coordination between standardisation/regulatory requirements and the EASCG/EUSCG rolling plans.
• Provide additional SESAR 3 JU-mandated strategic planning and monitoring activities: airspace architecture studies, Common Project proposal definitions, SRIA updates, ICAO ASBU alignment, performance impact plan preparation, ATM Master Plan update support.
• Upon explicit SESAR 3 JU request: maintain and, if justified, extend architecture modelling methodology and framework.
• Monitor and analyse consistency/coherency of architecture modelling, applying the agreed DES IR 1 methodology (project AMPLE-3) and SESAR project handbook.
• Monitor and report architecture progress at programme level, liaising with each SESAR 3 JU programme management team to consolidate SESAR Solution architectures.
• Support monitoring of R&I programme performance on key ATM Master Plan dimensions (TBO, dynamic airspace, automation levels).
• Contribute to maturity gate reviews to confirm robustness of performance benefits and alignment with ATM Master Plan vision and target architecture.
• Support reporting of deployment activities in industrialisation and implementation phases, including standardisation, certification, and operational roll-out.
• Lead and deliver the annual strategic deployment monitoring report covering voluntary and mandatory deployments, with clear linkages to the performance scheme and investment monitoring mechanisms.
• Encourage market uptake: maintain SESAR Solutions catalogue, website updates, and communicate deployment priorities; produce deployment guidance focusing on human and organisational dimensions.
• Support cost-benefit analysis: maintain consolidated SDO CBAs, perform focused assessments, network impact simulations, and integrated operational simulations.
• Maintain coordination between standardisation/regulatory requirements and the EASCG/EUSCG rolling plans.
• Provide additional SESAR 3 JU-mandated strategic planning and monitoring activities: airspace architecture studies, Common Project proposal definitions, SRIA updates, ICAO ASBU alignment, performance impact plan preparation, ATM Master Plan update support.
Additional Conditions for Applicants
Special Conditions
• Action type: HORIZON-JU Coordination and Support Action under Horizon Europe; lump sum grant (HORIZON-AG-LS).
• Funding rate: 70% of eligible costs; lump sum contributions as per 7 July 2021 Decision.
• Maximum project duration: 36 months.
• Admissibility and eligibility per Horizon Europe WP General Annexes (Annexes A, B, C, E).
• Call restrictions for protection of European communication networks.
• Evaluation criteria and weighting: Excellence 40%, Impact 40%, Implementation 20%.
• Additional dissemination obligations: proactive, royalty-free sharing of relevant results among grants under the same call; must be acknowledged in proposal and Grant Agreement Annex I.
• Additional exploitation obligations: make relevant results available under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions via a trusted repository; non-exclusive royalty-free licensing for standardisation-related results; mutual access to background and results of linked actions (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01 and DES-ER-01) with a required collaboration agreement.
• Gender dimension integration is encouraged but not mandatory.
• Applicants must comply with lump sum MGA model and call-specific instructions.
• Funding rate: 70% of eligible costs; lump sum contributions as per 7 July 2021 Decision.
• Maximum project duration: 36 months.
• Admissibility and eligibility per Horizon Europe WP General Annexes (Annexes A, B, C, E).
• Call restrictions for protection of European communication networks.
• Evaluation criteria and weighting: Excellence 40%, Impact 40%, Implementation 20%.
• Additional dissemination obligations: proactive, royalty-free sharing of relevant results among grants under the same call; must be acknowledged in proposal and Grant Agreement Annex I.
• Additional exploitation obligations: make relevant results available under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions via a trusted repository; non-exclusive royalty-free licensing for standardisation-related results; mutual access to background and results of linked actions (HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01 and DES-ER-01) with a required collaboration agreement.
• Gender dimension integration is encouraged but not mandatory.
• Applicants must comply with lump sum MGA model and call-specific instructions.
Important dates
Open from: 01/04/2025
Deadline:16/09/2025
Application period has ended
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