Safety is at the core of ATC. However, safety is interrelated with efficiency. Air and Ground Safety Nets have been developed to increase the achieved level of safety. Necessarily, Ground and Air Safety Nets have to evolve to keep up with the challenges originating from ever increasing traffic density and complexity. ATM evolutions necessary to safely handle increasing traffic demand or to improve efficiency of air transportation impose new challenging requirements on existing Safety Nets. Future Air and Ground safety nets need to support Trajectory Based Operations and new separation modes: they must provide necessary alerts for actual or potential hazardous situations in an efficient way and avoid or minimise unnecessary alerts. The SESAR 2020 PJ11-CAPITO project will anticipate these required evolutions to maintain, and if possible improve the level of safety. It will also support the safe integration of new airspace users such as Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS) in ATM. PJ11-CAPITO work is focussed on developing and validating requirements in five solutions: one addressing the ground safety nets (in particular Short Term Conflict Alert) and four focussing on the development of specific variants of the new generation of Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems: ACAS Xa for commercial aviation, ACAS Xu for RPAS, ACAS Xo for Specific operations such as parallel approaches, and ACAS Xp for General Aviation. Airborne Collision Avoidance Systems need to be interoperable worldwide, which is primarily ensured through the standardisation process. PJ11 CAPITO will federate European requirements’ capture and ensure that they are taken into account in the global standardisation processes. PJ11 CAPITO unites key European aviation partners including Air Navigation Service Providers, Ground Industry, Airborne industry and EUROCONTROL so that required complementary expertise is available to achieve these ambitious objectives.

The EUREKA project aims at enabling the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) accommodation (SESAR3 R&I need: Enabling UAM) in all types of airspace (R&I need: support the development of the U-space regulatory framework and required standards) with a focus on the vertiports operations. Main airports players and U-space/UAM developers team up under the leadership of EUROCONTROL to move the lines and develop the enabling vertiport solutions. The project outcomes will trigger a major update of the U-space/UAM operational concept with new procedures and tools dedicated to vertiport integration into the airspace. The EUREKA project will develop the complete arrival, departure and turnaround process for vertiports. The proposed four (4) SESAR Solutions at TRL7. These solutions are essential elements of a process required for integration of vertiports operations into the airspace: • Solution 1: Arrival/ departure to/ from vertiport including route and trajectory • Solution 2: Vertiport collaborative traffic management • Solution 3: Vertiport disruption and emergency management • Solution 4: Vertiport Network Flow, Capacity & Operational Management The EUREKA project will enable widely accepted solutions that relate to operational procedures and tools usable as a deployable blueprint in all EASA Members States (and possibly beyond) by the end of the project. The proposed solutions will develop procedures and systems consistent with the regulation when possible and that go even beyond as these solutions will be for manned and unmanned VTOL aircraft, and not only for UAV. The ultimate objective is to deliver EUREKA outcomes in a way Europe can (re)use its operational procedures, performance and safety requirements, validation results, recommendations for regulation/standardisation and any information that will accelerate and harmonize the development of UAM, VTOL operations and vertiport development across Europe.

The SES Performance Scheme established the principles of performance-driven ATM and Network-wide Collaborative decision making including Civil and State Airspace Users. Hence, it is critical that Flight and Wings Operation Centres processes and tools be enriched for more efficient interaction with ATM Network stakeholders including Airports. Improved performance of ATM depends on a higher certainty of the demand during the planning phase; and on improved adherence to the plan during operations. Improved Collaborative Decision Making (CDM) incorporating Airspace Users evolving business needs is key to improve ATM operations and Airspace Users performance. PJ07-OAUO project brings together key European aviation industry partners with the right expertise to achieve a breakthrough improvement to Airspace Users collaboration with ATM. Cooperation with PJ04, PJ09 and PJ18 will assure a good integration with ATM processes. Aligned with the ATM Masterplan, OAUO focusses on flight planning supported by improved tra

CONCERTO aims to provide the means to maximize the opportunities for CO2 reduction and to introduce non-CO2 impact management in daily operations. The goal is to reach TRL6 processes and tools that allow the ecosystem to achieve more eco-friendly trajectories and thus higher climate impact reduction without requiring major changes on legacy ATM and airlines systems. To do so, two specific objectives are declined for CONCERTO. The first one focuses on CO2 emissions reduction when the second one introduces non-CO2 climate impact reduction mitigation means. Finally, as CONCERTO is a data driven project, generating data on CO2 and non-CO2 effects and opportunities at TMA, ATSU and possibly network level, the project presents the opportunity to contribute to the improvement of european environmental performances dashboards. Ambition #1- Keep the pace on CO2 emissions reduction, integrate Green ATC capacity in ATM processes, with the appropriate level of automation, and support ATM actors in balancing permanently regularity and environmental performance at local and network level. Ambition #2- By leveraging state-of-the-art climate science, allow ATM actors to take their “eco-responsibility” to the next level Ambition #3- Strengthen cooperation, anticipation and exchange of information between NM, Air Traffic Control, Airlines and Flight Planning Service providers. Ambition #4- Demonstrate that mitigation measures such as the eco-friendly orchestrator and ECHO area avoidance concepts can be deployed progressively at network level, in close connection with scientific progress

The aim of SESAR2020.PJ22 is to address one of the Transversal Activities, specifically Validation & Demonstration Engineering. In SESAR 1, the application of an engineering methodology defining the process for development of verification and validation platforms, was optionally mandated to the primary projects, leading to a different level of information available across the Programme. The delivery of information to SJU did not always reach the necessary consistency and quality, e.g. preventing the understanding of coverage and traceability of operational requirements vs. technical requirements. SE data were typically captured via Word templates requiring significant effort to extract the information with not homogeneous level of details thus insufficient to guarantee the usability and significance for the SESAR Community. In SESAR 2020 there is a demand to improve consistently the situation and PJ22 will provide a System Engineering Data Management Framework (SE-DMF), aiming to support all SESAR Solutions with a (web based) platform for Requirements Management to capture data in a structured way ensuring consistency, coherence and coverage at Programme level. PJ22 will develop an efficient approach based on a data-centric, data-driven rather than document-based paradigm. SE-DMF will be set up as a service and run in a secured IaaS infrastructure to enable cost reduction, high level of ROI, ease of use and scalability. The project will support the SESAR Solution Maturity Lifecycle and Gates. Another challenge is to identify a set of strategic validation tools and interoperability solutions to improve the SESAR 2020 validation process. Maintaining and improving the development methodologies for the SESAR solution and VLSD projects together with managing the catalogue of the V&V and Demonstration Platforms and associated documentation describing their current capabilities and their planned evolution is under the scope of the project.