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This round is closed. The next round and similar open calls are listed below. Synced from the EU Funding & Tenders Portal on 9 November 2026.
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Projects the EU funded under this call, with the organisation that led each one.
DiFeRentDigital Flight enhanced Rules, enabling new technologies
Led by Eurocontrol - European Organisation for the Safety of Air Navigation · Belgium · 2026 · Official record ↗
Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.
FCAFlight Centric ATC Project
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA6-1 · 2023 · Official record ↗
SAFIR-ReadyObtain flight mission readiness, enabling rapid intervention for healthcare and critical infrastructure, leveraging all value chain actors and U-Space services.
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA4-1 · 2023 · Official record ↗
DARWINDigital Assistants for Reducing Workload & Increasing collaboratioN
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA5-4 · 2023 · Official record ↗
TADATerminal Airspace Digital Assistant
HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER2-WA2-1 · 2024 · Official record ↗
GARDAGNSS Applications for Resilient and Digital Aviation
HORIZON-SESAR-2025-DES-IR-02-WA5-2 · 2026 · Official record ↗
TRUSTYTRUSTWORTHY INTELLIGENT SYSTEM FOR REMOTE DIGITAL TOWER
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-7 · 2023 · Official record ↗
CODACOntroller adaptive Digital Assistant
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-1 · 2023 · Official record ↗
JARVIS-CONNECTJust A Rather Very Intelligent and Connected System
HORIZON-SESAR-2025-DES-IR-02-WA5-1 · 2026 · Official record ↗
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To significantly advance the following development priority:
The following aspects are in scope:
This concept builds on previous SESAR research for the integration of IFR RPAS integration in airspace A-G, where the ICAO Annex II responsibility to exercise on-board vigilance to avoid collisions is fulfilled by using CDTI traffic information instead of the traditional out-the-window vigilance used by crewed aircraft. The objective is to analyse how previous research performed in SESAR 2020 PJ.13, PJ.13-W2 and ongoing project IRINA and provide foundational conceptual work to support the development and validation of a new flight rules concept (“digital flight rules”) to complement VFR and IFR, to be applied in environments where all aircraft are equipped with cooperative surveillance.
The new rules should be applicable to certified aircraft, crewed or uncrewed, as a complement IFR and VFR to allow the use a certified on-board system to perform:
It is anticipated that digital flight rules will initially be applied only in a cooperative environment; the research should perform an initial analysis on whether in some cases on-board sensors for the detection of non-cooperative traffic may be required to support the safety case (e.g., this might be a requirement for uncrewed aircraft).
Digital flight rules should be compatible with both VFR and IFR and should provide support to crews that need to manoeuvre in accordance with the Annex II right-of-way rules (e.g., with a remain-well-clear system providing guidance for horizontal manoeuvring as per ED-271). Aircraft flying with digital flight rules would not have to maintain visual meteorological conditions (e.g., minimum visibility, distance from clouds, etc.). The research should describe the full operational concept and analyse how ICAO Annex II (rules of the air) and annex XI (ATS services, including flight planning aspects and appendix 4 – airspace classification) would need to evolve to allow this new concept. The research should also perform an initial assessment of the human performance aspects for both on-board pilots and remote pilots.
The objective is to analyse the potential need for evolution other ICAO Annexes and documents (e.g., Annex 11 (Air Traffic Services), PANS OPS (doc. 8168), PANS ATM (Doc. 4444), Manual on ATCO competency-based training and assessment (Doc 10056), airworthiness and certification material, Annex 10 “aeronautical communications”, ICAO doc. 9771 "Manual on Collaborative Air Traffic Flow Management”, etc.) to allow the implementation of the highly automated vision put forward by the European ATM Master Plan at a global level. The research should consider the potential impact of the evolution of the role of the human operator in the ATM system required to achieve the MP vision. Analysing the changes to the ICAO documentation that might be required to cover the possibility that the functions that are allocated to the controller in the current text be performed by a certified ATC ground system instead of by the human operator, considering, for example CPDLC being handled on the ground side by the ATC system instead of the human operator, automatic delivery of ATC clearances by the ATC ground system without prior validation by a human operator, the move from voice to CPDLC as primary means of communication, etc.
[1] Note that in airspace D and E, IFR aircraft must follow their IFR ATC clearance, which provides separation from all aircraft (VFR or IFR) in class A-C, and from IFR aircraft in class D and E. In airspace D and E, VFR aircraft are not subject to ATC clearance, while IFR aircraft are subject to ATC clearance and the clearance provides separation from other IFR aircraft but not with VFR aircraft.
1. Admissibility Conditions
described in Annex A and Annex E of the Horizon Europe Work Programme General Annexes.
Proposal page limits and layout: described in Part B of the Application Form available in the Submission System.
2. Eligible Countries
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
A number of non-EU/non-Associated Countries that are not automatically eligible for funding have made specific provisions for making funding available for their participants in Horizon Europe projects. See the information in the Horizon Europe Programme Guide.
3. Other Eligible Conditions
described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes.
This call is subject to restrictions for the protection of European communication networks.
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion
described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes.
5a. Evaluation and award: Award criteria, scoring and thresholds
are described in Annex D of the Work Programme General Annexes.
The award criteria are described in subsection 1.4 of the BAWP 2024-2025.
5b. Evaluation and award: Submission and evaluation processes
are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual.
The evaluation committee may be composed partially of representatives of EU institutions and agencies (internal experts).
5c. Evaluation and award: Indicative timeline for evaluation and grant agreement
described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes.
6. Legal and financial set-up of the grants
described in Annex G of the Work Programme General Annexes.
The following exceptions apply.
1) Eligible costs will take the form of a lump sum as defined in the Decision of 7 July 2021 authorising the use of lump sum contributions under the Horizon Europe Programme – the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (2021-2027) – and in actions under the Research and Training Programme of the European Atomic Energy Community (2021-2025).
2) Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:
3) Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional exploitation obligations:
For the purpose of complying with the objectives set in Council Regulation (EU) 2021/2085, the SRIA and the European ATM Master Plan,
Beneficiaries must acknowledge these obligations and incorporate them into the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make to meet them, and into Annex I to the grant agreement.
The maximum project duration is 30 months, including a 6-month period at the end of the project life cycle to undertake communications, dissemination and exploitation activities in relation to the research results.
Call documents:
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking Bi-Annual Work Programme (BAWP) 2024-2025 - Annex III
Application form templates
Standard application form (HE RIA, IA) - please note that only Part A of this template is applicable for this call. For Part B, see below.
SESAR 3 application form (RIA, IA) - Part B - this application form specific for this call is available in the Submission System
Detailed budget table (HE LS)
Evaluation form templates
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) - will be used with the necessary adaptations based on specific award criteria (see BAWP, Annex III, section 1.4).
Guidance
HE Programme Guide 
Model Grant Agreements (MGA)
Lump Sum MGA 
Call-specific instructions 
Guidance: "Lump sums - what do I need to know?"
Additional documents:
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking Multi-Annual Work Programme (MAWP) 2022-2031
SESAR 3 Project Handbook
SESAR 3 Q&A Document
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 12. Missions
HE Main Work Programme 2023–2025 – 13. General Annexes
Council Regulation 2021/2085 of 19 November 2021 establishing the Joint Undertakings under Horizon Europe (SBA)
HE Programme Guide
HE Framework Programme 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764 
EU Financial Regulation 2024/2509
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment 
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement 
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual 
Funding & Tenders Portal Terms and Conditions 
Funding & Tenders Portal Privacy Statement
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