Close to 7,000 delegates gathered at the airspace management industry’s annual global meeting in Geneva from 19-21 March for Airspace World where SESAR JU as part “Europe for Aviation” team showcased the latest from the Digital European Sky programme. Airspace World was also the backdrop to the annual gathering of the JU's members and partners, which took place on 18 March.

The “Europe for Aviation” stand (#H22) hosted a range of briefings, exhibits and demos illustrating collaboration in action between the European aviation organisations working to implement the Single European Sky - the European Commission, EASA, EDA, EUROCONTROL, EUROCAE, EUSPA,  the CINEA, SESAR JU and the SESAR Deployment Manager (SESAR DM). The event was an opportunity for the SESAR JU and the SESAR DM to reinforce their collaboration with the signing of a memorandum of cooperation.

SESAR Walking Tours

The SESAR JU in partnership with the SESAR Deployment Manager organised 10 walking tours attracting close to 500 participants, who had a chance meet with experts from the SESAR community and see first-hand the wide variety of solutions that are being delivered and deployed across Europe.

The tours covered all areas of air traffic management, namely airport operations, network operations, air traffic service provision, as well as showcasing the enabling the technologies (CNS, etc), as well as all phases from innovation to deployment.

Read about our virtualisation tour.

SESAR research and innovation onstage

The SESAR JU and its projects took part in a number of the panel discussions as part of the main Airspace World conference agenda, addressing digital transformation, air-ground connectivity, urban air mobility, etc. On 19 March, the JU organised a panel discussion on the campaign to update the European ATM Master Plan, which presented everything from the vision of the plan to the concrete measures to ensure prioritisation in research and effective deployment. Watch the short video.

Read the LinkedIn blog by Andreas Boschen on the campaign

Meeting the experts Visitors had a chance to connect with SESAR JU experts to to take a deep dive into in the field of digitalisation, sustainability, trajectory based operations, as well as hear the latest about the European ATM Master Plan update campaign.
Future skies Engage 2, SESAR’s Knowledge Transfer Hub, took centre stage on 21 March with "Future Skies: TOMORROW’S VOICES", an event to enable young graduates and professionals (to exchange with with industry CEOs. The event coincided with the announcement for the call to find the next SESAR Young Scientist.
SESAR JU Quiz Visitors had chance to test their knowledge about SESAR research and innovation with a quiz during Airspace World. Congratulations to Mark Watson, EUROCAE, for scoring top marks! Interested in boosting your knowledge? Check out our projects portal and online solutions catalogue