Fast-track Extending U-space eco-system
Funds innovation projects building 5G-based communication, navigation and surveillance capabilities for drones and vertiports.
The SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking, operating under Horizon Europe, expects to fund one Innovation Action for this topic, with a EUR 2,000,000–5,000,000 EU contribution as a lump sum at a 70% funding rate. Proposals go through the standard single-stage EU Funding & Tenders Portal process over a maximum 36-month project, and winners must sign a collaboration agreement linking their project to earlier SE…
This call funds innovation-stage development of communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) technology for drones and low-altitude aircraft, including using public LTE/4G/5G cellular networks for traffic awareness and low-cost mmWave-radar or 5G-based surveillance at vertiports and regional airports. It also wants 5G-based navigation and surveillance solutions for drones in urban areas, U-space GNSS augmentation, and electronic-conspicuity solutions so U-space services can extend to commercial aircraft, general aviation and crewed vertical-takeoff vehicles beyond dedicated U-space airspace. Several elements are explicitly dual-use civil-military technology.
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