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One step closer to the SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking

3 March 2021

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Digitalisation and information management

The recent adoption by the European Commission of a regulatory proposal to set up nine new European Partnerships including the Single European Sky ATM Research – SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking (JU), brings us one important step closer to a smarter and more sustainable European aviation sector. SESAR 3 aims to accelerate the rollout of innovative digital solutions, with EUROCONTROL, as a founding Joint Undertaking member, continuing to play a key role.

The new SESAR 3 partnership will develop further the role of the Joint Undertaking, with a much greater emphasis on innovation rather than pure research and development (R&D), with the clear objective of accelerating change to facilitate a quicker integration of solutions into operations. SESAR 3 will seek to involve EASA and EUROCAE at an early stage to prepare the certification, industrialisation and standardisation aspects, enabling solutions to move quicker from R&D to deployment without losing the innovation momentum.

“With the publication of the regulatory proposal to set up SESAR 3, we’re really putting the bricks in place for a programme that is key to efforts to build back better European aviation. We expect SESAR 3 to take a decisive step forward towards delivering a smarter, more sustainable, Digital European Sky. SESAR 3 is all about quickly deploying innovative digital solutions into operations – and EUROCONTROL will play a key part in accelerating change.”

Eamonn Brennan Director General, EUROCONTROL

The next key milestone will be the adoption of a Single Basic Act establishing the future SESAR 3 JU as well as the other partnerships by the Council of the European Union, which is expected later this year.