Day 1 featured the expert roundtable “Common Drivers and Barriers for Greener Mobility and Digitisation”, with insights from Brussels Airport (Elke Bossaert, Strategic Accessibility Manager), ENAC (Georges Mykoniatis, Head of Research Business Development),  CINEA (Marcel Rommerts, Head of Unit Horizon Europe Transport), and the Port of Rotterdam (Oscar van Veen, Director of Innovation), highlighting shared challenges and opportunities in driving sustainable mobility.

Key Themes:

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Led by ENAC, ASTAIR focuses on developing tools for fully automated ground operations supervision. The project’s goal is to develop an advanced HMI prototype and support algorithms capable of autonomously managing ground vehicle movements. These solutions allow supervisors to fine-tune operations, ensuring adaptability to real-time events. The meeting provided an overview of the project’s objectives, updates on progress of the operations, and plans for next steps.

Led by DeepBlue (Sep. 2024 - Feb. 2026), this exploratory project focuses on improving air traffic management (ATM) through innovative human-AI collaboration and adaptive automation. The meeting included progress updates, planning for next steps, and testing of BrainSigns’ EEG device for neurophysiological analysis (hbrainsigns.com).

Led by TWI Hellas, the project aims to establish an AI-powered, community-based ecosystem to improve disaster risk management and situational awareness. PANTHEON leverages advanced digital twin technology to support policymakers and stakeholders in preparing for, responding to, and recovering from natural disasters.

ENAC's contributions are focused on:

From November 12–15, ENAC Lab proudly showcased its cutting-edge research and contributions across several key projects at SESAR Innovation Days 2024:

Masters

Masters degrees at ENAC are full-time, two-year programs designed for students with a bachelor's degree (bac+3) and offer 60 ECTS credits per year. These programs focus on scientific and technical studies, leveraging ENAC's cutting-edge research and expertise to meet the evolving needs of the global air transport industry.

Click here to find out more about our Masters programme.

Having earned his PhD in December 2023 titled “Development of Trajectory Generation Algorithms to Improve Air Transport Safety,” Andreas has already contributed to over 20 studies focused on aircraft emergency trajectory generation, trajectory optimization, tackling issues like rapid response, contrail reduction, and increased safety in air traffic management.

The European Air Transport University – UTA - is a shared long-term objective in which the firm determination of the various partners is to develop a truly European high-level vocational training programme.

Because UTA's ambition is to bring together the various European aviation players through the listeners and speakers, to promote mutual understanding and create greater synergy within the European air transport and aircraft manufacturing ecosystem. This is why we are delighted and honoured that the European Commission is supporting this course.

As part of the SIGN-AIR project, work on air/rail connectivity at airports—focused on improving airport accessibility through high-speed rail integration—was conducted and presented at the conference. This connectivity metric assesses the coordination of schedules between air and rail services at major airports. The project is led by the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, with ENAC as a key partner.