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Call key data

SESAR digital sky demonstrators for a greener, more scalable and resilient ATM – works

Funding Program

Connecting Europe Facility for Transport

Call number

CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-SESAR-DSDU-WORKS

deadlines

Opening
24.09.2024

Deadline
21.01.2025 17:00

Funding rate

50-70%

Call budget

€ 640,000,000.00

Link to the call

ec.europa.eu

Link to the submission

ec.europa.eu

Call content

short description

The objective is to modernise air transport infrastructure on the TEN-T network.

Call objectives

In accordance with the Article 9(2)(b)(ii) of the CEF Regulation, this priority will support works related to DSDs addressing the areas listed below.

SESAR’s DES aims at delivering innovative, interoperable, and sustainable ATM solutions (SESAR solutions) through an R&I innovation pipeline that brings new operational and technological ATM solutions up to the Technology Readiness Level (TRL) 6.

The programme also aims at accelerating the deployment (industrialisation and implementation activities) of SESAR solutions by establishing Digital Sky Demonstrators (DSD), which offer a viable means to accelerate market uptake of SESAR solutions.

DSDs take place in live operational and, when required, cross-border ground and airborne environments, thus providing tangible evidence of the environmental, capacity, safety, security, and efficiency performance benefits of the services, technologies and standards resulting from the relevant SESAR solutions. They also bridge research with industrialisation and implementation activities for which DSD shall provide recommendations. The DSDs are, therefore, closely connected to standardisation and regulatory activities and will provide a platform for a critical mass of ‘early movers’ (at least 20% of the targeted operating environment).

The DSDs contribute to achieving a climate neutral aviation and to making Europe the most efficient and environmentally friendly sky to fly in the world, by accelerating implementation of operational measures and technological innovations to improve the fuel efficiency of flights, reduce CO2 emissions, reduce aircraft noise impact, and improve air quality at and around the airports.

Furthermore, the DSDs enable a more flexible, scalable, resilient, safe, and secure ATM that can withstand disruptions in the aviation system based on the future European airspace architecture underlying the DES and contributing to the digital transformation of air navigation service provision. This requires changes in the way these services are provided, with a view to delivering the capacity needed by airspace users and building a state-of-the-art, scalable, and resilient system that will remain at least as safe as today.

DSDs aim to bring to TRL-8 the SESAR solutions that contribute to the following areas that are critical for achieving the DES and the related performance ambitions:

  1. Alerts for reduction of collision risks on taxiways and runways.
  2. Optimising airport and TMA environmental footprint.
  3. Dynamic airspace configuration.
  4. Increased automation support.
  5. Transformation to trajectory-based operations (TBO).
  6. Virtualisation of operations.
  7. Transition towards high performance of air-ground connectivity (multilink).
  8. Service-oriented delivery model (data driven and cloud based).
  9. CNS optimisation, modernisation and resilience.
  10. Implement innovative air mobility (IAM) & drone operations.

Proposals may address one or more of the areas listed above, which are described in the following sections, and are not required to address all of the underlying SESAR solutions and elements.

The details on the relevant on-going projects referred to in following areas are available on the SESAR 3 JU website (www.sesarju.eu).

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Eligibility Criteria

Regions / countries for funding

EU Member States, Overseas Countries and Territories (OCT)
Moldova (Moldova), Ukraine (Україна)

eligible entities

Education and training institution, International organization, Non-Profit Organisation (NPO) / Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Other, Private institution, incl. private company (private for profit), Public Body (national, regional and local; incl. EGTCs), Research Institution incl. University, Small and medium-sized enterprise (SME)

Mandatory partnership

No

Project Partnership

In order to be eligible, the applicants (beneficiaries and affiliated entities) must:

  • be legal entities (public or private bodies)
  • be established in one of the eligible countries, i.e.
    • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories (OCTs)) 
    • Third countries associated to the CEF Programme (list of participating countries)

Specific cases:

  • Project applications located in associated third countries are eligible for funding in the present calls under the conditions set out in Article 8(1) of the TEN-T Regulation (EU) N° 1315/2013 and Articles 5(2) and 9(2) of the CEF Regulation (EU) 2021/1153.
  • Exceptional funding — Entities from other countries (not listed above) are exceptionally eligible for projects of common interest in the field of transport if the granting authority considers their participation essential for the implementation of the project.
  • Natural persons are NOT eligible (with the exception of self-employed persons, i.e. sole traders, where the company does not have legalpersonality separate from that of the natural person).
  • International organisations are eligible. The rules on eligible countries do not apply to them.
  • Entities without legal personality under their national law may exceptionally participate, provided that their representatives have the capacity to undertake legal obligations on their behalf, and offer guaranteesfor the protection of the EU financial interests equivalent to that offered by legal persons.
  • EU bodies can NOT be part of the consortium.

other eligibility criteria

Financial support to third parties is not allowed.

The available call budget is split between 10 calls for proposals:

  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-ERTMS-UNITS: ERTMS – unit contribution 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-ITS-WORKS: ITS – studies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-RIS-WORKS: RIS – studies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-EMSWe-WORKS: EMSWe – studies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-VTMIS-WORKS: VTMIS – studies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-eFTI-WORKS: eFTI – studies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-REMIB-WORKS: Removing interoperability barriersstudies, works or mixed 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-SESAR-DSDU-WORKS: SESAR digital sky demonstrators for a greener, more scalable and resilient ATM – works 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-SESAR-CP-WORKS: SESAR Common Project One implementation projects – works 
  • CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN-SESAR-OP-WORKS: Other ATM Projects – Works or Mixed
In order to ensure efficiency in EU funding interventions, applicants are strongly encouraged to submit applications for projects with a total requested EU contribution to the eligible costs of no less than EUR 1 000 000. Where possible, related projects should be grouped and submitted as one proposal.

The costs will be reimbursed at the funding rates fixed in the Grant Agreement: 

  • maximum 50% for the costs of studies (not applicable for the SESAR topics)
  • maximum 50% for the costs of works 
  • maximum 70% for the costs of works in outermost regions (not applicable for the RIS and REMIB topics).
Please be aware that project management costs (including related tasks, such as consortium-internal progress meetings, project reporting etc.) should not exceed 10% of total costs for the project.

The foreseen duration of the works and mixed projects should be 4-5 years maximum. For studies projects it should be 2-3 years maximum. In both cases, the end date set in the Grant Agreement will not be later than 31.12.2029.

Additional information

Topics

Digitalisation, Digital Society, ICT, 
Mobility & Transport

Relevance for EU Macro-Region

EUSAIR - EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region, EUSALP - EU Strategy for the Alpine Space, EUSBSR - EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, EUSDR - EU Strategy for the Danube Region

UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN-SDGs)

project duration

between 24 and 60 months

Additional Information

All proposals must be submitted electronically via the Funders & Tenders Portal electronic submission system (accessible via the topic page in the Search Funding & Tenders section). Paper submissions are NOT possible.

Proposals must be complete and contain all parts and mandatory annexes and supporting documents, e.g. plan for the exploitation and dissemination of the results including communication activities, etc.

The application form will have two parts:

  • Part A (to be filled in directly online) contains administrative information about the participants (future coordinator and beneficiaries and affiliated entities), and the summarised budget for the project
  • Part B (to be downloaded from the Portal submission system, completed and then assembled and re-uploaded as a PDF in the system) contains the technical description of the project.

Mandatory annexes and supporting documents (templates available to be downloaded from the Portal Submission System, completed, assembled and re-uploaded): 

  • detailed budget table per WP/calculator 
  • activity reports of last year (unless exempted from operational capacity check; see section 7 of call document)
  • list of previous projects (key projects for the last 4 years) (template available in Part B)
  • timetable/Gantt chart 
  • agreement of the concerned Member State (letter of support)
  • environmental compliance file (for works, for studies with physical interventions and for studies without physical interventions. 

For applications concerning projects subject to an EIA, you may include a summary of the climate proofing process in the Portal Submission System under “Other Annexes".

The limit for a full application (Part B) is 120 pages.

Call documents

CEF 2 Transport - Projects related to smart and interoperable mobility (CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN)CEF 2 Transport - Projects related to smart and interoperable mobility (CEF-T-2024-SIMOBGEN)(572kB)

Contact

European Climate Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency - CINEA
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