ATM application-oriented Research for Virtualisation and Cyber-secure Data Sharing
HORIZON JU Research and Innovation Actions
Basic Information
- Identifier
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-5
- Programme
- Digital European Sky Exploratory Research 01
- Programme Period
- 2021 - 2027
- Status
- Closed (31094503)
- Opening Date
- April 7, 2022
- Deadline
- October 13, 2022
- Deadline Model
- single-stage
- Budget
- €3,750,000
- Min Grant Amount
- €3,750,000
- Max Grant Amount
- €3,750,000
- Expected Number of Grants
- 1
Description
Project results are expected to contribute to the following expected outcomes.
- Capacity. Project results are expected to demonstrate that capacity would not be affected by the development of new U-space services or the validation of operational and technical requirements. In addition, the development of indicators and metrics linked to U-space should help to demonstrate that there would be no negative impact on capacity.
- Cost-efficiency. Project results are expected to make a positive contribution to the cost-efficiency of the ATM system through, for example, the sharing of the same infrastructure among different ATM services, harmonised and rationalised refurbishment of legacy infrastructures, changes to route-charging and cost-recovery mechanisms.
- Operational efficiency. Project results are expected to demonstrate that the ATM workforce, such as ATCOs, ATSEPs and pilots, will maintain at least the same level of efficiency as currently, even when dealing with cyberattacks.
- Safety. Project results are expected to contribute to the improvement to the level of safety of both legacy and newly developed ATM services and systems, and to provide the necessary standardisation and regulatory framework.
- Security. Project results are expected to contribute to the improvement to the level of (cyber)security of both legacy and newly developed ATM services and systems, and to provide the necessary standardisation and regulatory framework.
The SESAR 3 JU has identified the following innovative research elements that could be used to achieve the expected outcomes. The list is not intended to be prescriptive; proposals for work on areas other than those listed below are welcome, provided they include adequate background and justification to ensure clear traceability with the R&I needs set out in the SRIA for the virtualisation and cybersecure data-sharing flagship.
- Safety versus cybersecurity. Safety and security are intricately intertwined. The research will identify use cases in which safety risk-mitigating measures and security risk-mitigating measures are in conflict and provide guidance on how to resolve such conflicts during the design phase. Examples may include time-consuming processes for systems certification (safety) versus fast processes for patch management (security), and open data exchange for surveillance, such as traffic collision avoidance systems and ADS-B (increased awareness), versus encrypted data exchange for surveillance (protection of data against abuse) (R&I need: future data-sharing service delivery model).
- New virtualisation business model. Virtualisation (i.e. decoupling the provision of ATM data services from ATSs) is expected to enable a better offer of airspace capacity through collaboration between the NM and ATSUs. New and/or different business models could be identified and investigated, along with the possibility of having emerging new ATM players, which would foster competition in the sector. Examples of questions to be addressed in this element are ‘How will virtualisation impact the way ANSPs make implementation choices?’ and ‘How will the new ATM services be provided?’ (R&I need: scalability and resilience).
- Improved platform interoperability. This research is about how to improve the sharing and exchange of ATM data via interoperable platforms to improve existing and new ATM services and processes, using both existing data exchange concepts (e.g. SWIM) and new ones. The research should consider the associated cyber-resilience aspects (R&I need: free flow of data among trusted users across borders).
- Regulatory frameworks for future ATM services. This element will assess the need for new/updated legal and regulatory frameworks for the provision of ATM services in a service-oriented architecture environment. More specifically, operating expense and lower capital expense requirements should be addressed (R&I need: regulations and standards).
- Evolution of route-charging and cost-recovery mechanisms. This element investigates how route-charging and cost-recovery mechanisms should evolve in order to move towards a service-oriented provision scheme that is supplier independent (R&I need: regulations and standards).
- Efficient application of standards. This element covers the need for the efficient application of regulations, standards, procedures and guidelines addressing safety, privacy and cyber-resilience risks, which is a key element to protect ATM information and information systems. Therefore, it is necessary to further develop cyber-resilience regulations, standards, procedures and guidelines, which should be based on ones from other domains (e.g. blockchain) (R&I need: regulations and standards).
- ML and cybersecurity. This research is aimed at investigating, from a cybersecurity perspective, issues relating to ML techniques for ATM applications, in particular what the risks are, how to perform a risk assessment and what mitigating measures could be effective (R&I need: cyber-resilience).
- Beyond state-of-the-art cybersecurity standards and methods. This element covers the development of advanced cybersecurity methods (science, technologies and processes), going beyond the state of the art and looking beyond the horizon to prepare the next generation of cybersecurity standards for aviation. The results should cover the training process for ATCOs, ATSEPs and pilots dealing with continually changing cyberthreats (R&I need: cyber-resilience).
Eligibility & Conditions
General conditions
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 eligibility conditions: described in Annex B of the Work Programme General Annexes
4. Financial and operational capacity and exclusion: described in Annex C of the Work Programme General Annexes
5. Evaluation and award:
- Award criteria, scoring and thresholds are described in subsection 2.1.3 of the BAWP 2022-2023.
- Submission and evaluation processes are described in Annex F of the Work Programme General Annexes and the Online Manual
The following exception applies:
To ensure a balanced portfolio, grants will be awarded to applications not only in order of ranking but at least also to those that are the highest ranked within set topics, provided that the applications attain all thresholds.
- 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:
Grants awarded under this work area will have to submit the following deliverables:
- Exploratory research report (ERP)
- Exploratory research report (ERR)
- Functional requirements document (FRD)
- Operational services and environment description (OSED)
- Economic evaluation (ECO-EVAL)
- Data Management Plan (DMP) (to be submitted at the beginning, at mid-term and towards the end of the project)
- plan for dissemination and exploitation including communication activities - CDE (to be submitted within 6 months after signature date and periodically updated)
Beneficiaries will be subject to the following additional dissemination obligations:
- Beneficiaries must make proactive efforts to share on a royalty free basis, in a timely manner and as appropriate, all relevant results with the other grants awarded under the same call.
- Beneficiaries must acknowledge and incorporate these obligations in the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make towards meeting them and in Annex I to the Grant Agreement.
Beneficiaries will be subject to the additional exploitation obligations:
For the purpose of complying with the objectives set in the Regulation 2021/2085, the SRIA and the European ATM Master plan, beneficiaries must:
- make available for re-use under fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory conditions all relevant results generated in the action, through a well-defined mechanism, in trusted repositories;
- in case the purpose of the specific identified measures to exploit the results of the action is related to standardisation, grant the non-exclusive licence to the results royalty-free;
- in case on linked actions, ensure mutual access to the background and to the results of on-going and closed linked actions, should this be needed for implementing tasks under the linked action(s) or for exploiting results generated by the linked action(s) as defined in the conditions laid down by this (bi)annual work programme and by the call for proposals.
Beneficiaries must acknowledge and incorporate these obligations in the proposal, outlining the efforts they will make towards meeting them and in Annex I to the Grant Agreement.
Specific conditions
7. Specific conditions: described in the specific conditions and topics description per Work Area:
- 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 on the research results.
- The integration of the gender dimension (sex and gender analysis) in R&I content is not a mandatory requirement.
Documents
Call documents:
Standard HE RIA/IA templates - Available directly in the Submission system. 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 call-specific application form is also available in the Submission System
Standard evaluation form (HE RIA, IA) – it will be used with the necessary adaptations based on the specific award criteria (see BAWP, Annex II, section 2.1.3 - Award criteria).
MGA
Additional documents:
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking Bi-Annual Work Programme (BAWP) 2022-2023
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking Multi-Annual Work Programme (MAWP) 2022-2031
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 1. General Introduction
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 8. Climate, Energy and Mobility
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 12. Missions
HE Main Work Programme 2021–2022 – 13. General Annexes
HE Framework Programme and Rules for Participation Regulation 2021/695
HE Specific Programme Decision 2021/764
Rules for Legal Entity Validation, LEAR Appointment and Financial Capacity Assessment
EU Grants AGA — Annotated Model Grant Agreement
Funding & Tenders Portal Online Manual
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Latest Updates
Call HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01 has closed on the 13-10-2022.
72 proposals have been submitted.
The breakdown per topic is:
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-1 8
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-2 5
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-3 3
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-4 4
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-5 9
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-6 7
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA1-7 3
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-1 4
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-3 6
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-4 8
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-5 1
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-6 2
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-7 3
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA2-8 7
- HORIZON-SESAR-2022-DES-ER-01-WA3-1 2
Evaluation results are expected to be communicated in February 2022.