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Projects the EU funded under this call, with the organisation that led each one.
SMARTSECURE MILITARY OPERATIONS INTEGRATION THROUGH ADVANCED RESILIENT U-SPACE TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE SAFETY AND CIVIL-MILITARY INTEROPERABILITY
Led by Agile Systems Engineering SRL · Romania · 2026 · Official record ↗
HIVEHARMONIZED INTEGRATION AND VERIFICATION OF UAS MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS OPERATIONS IN THE U-SPACE ENVIRONMENT (HIVE)
Led by Flyfire srl · Italy · 2026 · Official record ↗
AIC4ATMArtificial Intelligence Compliance for Air Traffic Management solutions
Led by Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya · Spain · 2026 · Official record ↗
Based on projects the EU funded on the same subject in this programme.
CORUS fiveDevelopment of the extended U-space Concept of Operations CORUS V5.0
HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER2-WA1-4 · 2024 · Official record ↗
VITACYVIrtual center with Triangle Architecture and CYber-resilience
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA5-2 · 2023 · Official record ↗
SATERASpace-based composite Ads-b and multilaTerarion systEm validation thRough scalable simulAtions
HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER2-WA2-1 · 2024 · Official record ↗
FCAFlight Centric ATC Project
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA6-1 · 2023 · Official record ↗
Engage 2The SESAR 3 Knowledge Transfer Network
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA3-1 · 2023 · Official record ↗
HUCANHolistic Unified Certification Approach for Novel systems based on advanced automation
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-2 · 2023 · Official record ↗
IFAV3INCREASED FLEXIBILITY OF ATCO VALIDATIONS – V3
HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-IR-01-WA6-3 · 2023 · Official record ↗
ATMACAAIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATION OVER ATN/IPS
HORIZON-SESAR-2023-DES-ER2-WA2-2 · 2024 · Official record ↗
Each one links to its EU funding record and the partners it works with: a starting list for building a consortium.
Fundamental research is typically curiosity-driven and explores new and innovative research areas for air traffic management (ATM), which are at TRL0. The objective is to bring new knowledge encouraging scientists to develop innovative ideas, concepts, emerging technologies, methods, and theories that explore the current boundary of knowledge on ATM/U-space and that have potential for the evolution of the future air traffic management / U-space system. Exploration of the potential benefits of the application of interdisciplinary methods is considered positive and in scope.
The scope under this topic covers any ATM/U-space research area not covered by the development priorities for fundamental research (FR-1, FR-2 or FR-3) described in previous topics.
The proposals shall demonstrate their innovation / breakthrough potential, justify how the scope of the proposed research is aligned to the ATM Master Plan vision and how the expected outcomes will contribute to one or more of the five key transformation levers described in the ATM Master Plan.
The five transformation levers are described in the ATM Master Plan as follows:
When relevant and regarding civil military collaboration, the proposed research shall contribute to enhance military access to the airspace and to the ability to protect confidentiality and critical information of military air missions. In addition, it could address the coordination with civilian aviation authorities enabling effective contribution to operations in multinational coalitions and the adaptation of Military systems and CNS capabilities to ensure civil military interoperability. The military implications of U-Space and higher altitude operations (HAO) could also be included.
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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