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D2.20 - Funding Programmes and R&I opportunities (Year IV)

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CATER – GA n. 605497

D2.20 - Funding programmes and R&I opportunities (Year IV)

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Document information and history

Information Table GA Number ACS3-GA-2013-605497

Project Acronym CATER

Project Coordinator Finmeccanica - LEONARDO

Document Title D2.20 – Funding programmes and R&I opportunities (Year IV)

Document Type R = Report

Dissemination Level PU = Public

Document history Document log

Issue Date Comment Author

1 13/06/2017 Document drafting Marco Molica Colella (CTECH)

2 30/06/2017 Final version Marco Molica Colella (CTECH)

Document Change Record

Issue Item Reason for change

none

Lead beneficiary and Contributors Lead beneficiary CTECH

Contributors CTECH

Intellectual Property Rights (foreground)

This document and its associated developed tools could be protected under intellectual property rights.



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Abstract

This report describes the work performed in the context of Work-package 2, Task 5 of the European

Project “Coordination of Air-transport Time Efficiency Research” (CATER). In this Task R&I programs

and opportunities are being identified and assessed.

In this report we have examined major funding opportunities in the 2017-2020 time frame, both at

EU and national level.



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Table of Contents

Document information and history ................................................................................. 2

Information Table ................................................................................................................................................2

Document history .................................................................................................................................................2

Lead beneficiary and Contributors.......................................................................................................................2

Intellectual Property Rights (foreground) ............................................................................................................2

Abstract ................................................................................................................................................................3

A. Introduction ................................................................................................................ 5

B. Work performed ........................................................................................................ 6

1. Methodology and Approach .......................................................................................................................6

2. Performed Analysis and Main Results .......................................................................................................7

2.1 Horizon 2020: Review of focus Areas in 2016-2017 (excluding Sesar and Clean Sky JU) ............................................................ 7

2.2 Preview of next EU 2018-2020 calls ............................................................................................................................................... 7

2.2.1 Smart green and integrated transport ............................................................................................................................................ 7

2.2.2 Other Calls potentially Impacting TE ......................................................................................................................................... 13

C. Conclusions & Next Steps ........................................................................................ 24

D. Annexes - List of Transport related Calls ................................................................ 25



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A. Introduction In accordance to the Description of Work (DoW) of the project “Coordination of Air-transport Time Efficiency

Research” (CATER), CIAOTECH (CTECH) is responsible for using its standard in-house procedures, to create and

maintain a prospectus of current and upcoming R&I programs and opportunities as part of the project’s effort

to assure that project stakeholders have a complete view of the R&I and TE landscape.

This shall aid the match and evaluation of R&I programme compared to evidenced gaps to understand if the

shortcomings of the previous programs have been properly addressed.

WRAP-UP of previous work:

This deliverable is the fifth and last in its series (after D2.16, D2.17, D2.18 and D2.19). In the previous analyses

we have assessed where the main topics concerning ACARE goals (related to Time Efficiency), D2D and TE in

general are addressed.

Methodology

A common set of keywords was selected consistently with Task 2.3 where R&I capabilities are examined. They were found to be suitable for the individuation of at least 97% out of a set of relevant FP6 and FP7 projects initially provided by the European Commission (see deliverable D2.6).

Since then, as a consequence of this preliminary analysis, high-priority calls were identified to be recursively addressed and analysed during the project time-line.

Main results

The whole biennial Work Programme 2014-2015 of Horizon 2020 was examined in previous D2.18 to assess the methodology. It has shown that – excluding Public-Private-Partnerships and Joint Undertakings like SESAR and Clean Sky programs - CATER main themes mainly fit into the (I) Smart, Green and Integrated Transport and (II) Secure Society – Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens calls.

The following biennial Work Programme 2016-2017 of Horizon 2020 was examined in detail in previous D2.19, together with most important EU initiatives such as Sesar 2020 and Clean Sky 2, even if they were not central in CATER. As a result Mobility or Growth still is the main reference topic for Time Efficiency, yet with only 11 Million directly tackling the 4-hours-door-to-door target. Aviation is by far the most funded, but Multi-Modality was well addressed with 123 Million €. Enabling horizontal focus areas were found in GNSS, ICT, IoT and CIP (Infrastructure protection) related calls for an overall potential 110 Million €

Next

As the last 3 years of Horizon 2020 approaches, in this final deliverable an overview of the forecasts for 2018-2019-2020 programme will be completed. The most important national grants will be scouted



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B. Work performed

1. Methodology and Approach

After scanning the whole period 2014-2017 in the previous reports, the work done has concentrated on a deep dive into national programmes in main Western EU countries and on a sneak-peak of last 2018-2020 priorities for the European Commission. Consistently with previous results the general framework relates to:

Relevance with ACARE SRIA Volume 2 Challenges, distinguishing between: Mobility (‘Meeting Societal and market needs’), Environment (‘Protecting the environment and the energy supply’) Competitiveness (‘Maintaining and extending industrial leadership’) Security (‘Ensuring safety and security’) Research (‘Prioritising research, testing capabilities an education’)

Relevance to the Time-efficiency of air-transportation (taking into account the whole Door-to-door process)

The fundamentals modelling and taxonomies adopted by CATER to define this last criteria have been extensively reviewed in tasks 2.1 and 2.2. Particularly, it is worth to recall the used strategic approach (D2.2) which relates the bottlenecks identified in the D2D process model to the selection and classification of a group of R&I Needs from ACARE SRIA Volume 2. In turn, these are based on the contribution to a primary Flightpath 2050 goal (in bold) and to other targets which have been considered relevant to time efficiency. The table below shows the complete list of identified goals.

Flightpath 2050 Goals related to time efficiency

90% of travellers within Europe are able to complete their journey, door-to-door within 4 hours

Flights arrive within 1 minute of the planned arrival time regardless of weather conditions

European citizens are able to make informed mobility choices and have affordable access to one another, taking into account: economy, speed, and tailored level of service

An air traffic management system is in place that provides a range of services to handle at least 25 million flights a year of all types of vehicles, (fixed-wing, rotorcraft) and systems (manned, unmanned, autonomous) that are integrated into and interoperable with the overall air transport system with 24-

hour efficient operation of airports

A coherent ground infrastructure is developed including: airports, vertiports and heliports with the relevant servicing and connecting facilities, also to other modes

Weather and other hazards from the environment are precisely evaluated and risks are properly mitigated

Efficient boarding and security checks allow seamless security for global travel, with minimum passenger and cargo impact

Table 1 - Flightpath 2050 Goals The R&I Needs Classification is based on three types according to their contribution to the primary 4hrs door-to-door goal:



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Type 1: specifically addressing the ‘4hrs door-to-door goal’.

Type 2: relevant on improving Time Efficiency via another goal related to time efficiency, in a directly perceptible manner for travellers.

Type 3: relevant on improving Time Efficiency via another goal related to time efficiency, in a non-directly perceptible manner for travellers.

2. Performed Analysis and Main Results

2.1 Horizon 2020: Review of focus Areas in 2016-2017 (excluding Sesar and Clean Sky JU) During the previous analyses the need to search for further TE-related funding in horizontal calls has been acknowledged. These focus areas are particularly related to the introduction and application of new IT and Big Data technology solutions possibly affecting mobility services and paving the way to new business models which can exploit those services once ready and marketable. As a summary from the 2016-2017 review (Figure 1), on top of the specific mobility themes (i.e. Mobility for Growth), GNSS technologies, Big Data, IoT and Infrastructure Protection are indeed related to the overall transport system, security and mobility enhancement. Of course, the effectiveness of this horizontal connection becomes effective depending on the type of the funded projects, the pilot applications and if a “mobility oriented” follow-up is actually pursued or checked ex-post.

Figure 1 – All the grants found to be related to TE in WP 2016-2017

2.2 Preview of next EU 2018-2020 calls The EC is drafting the new calls which will embody its targets in the next 3 years. As responsible of this task and Grant Consultancy Company, CTECH has managed to sneak-peak into the upcoming Work Programme in advance. In the following, the essential issues are reported. The definition of the Calls can yet be provisional, along with the identified budgets. Neither detail on the budget nor on the calls descriptions were instead available for 2020.

2.2.1 Smart green and integrated transport Following this Societal Challenge (SC4), the priorities identified in this Work Programme will generally pursue the achievement of a European transport system that is resilient, resource-efficient, climate-and environmentally-friendly, safe and seamless for the benefit of all citizens, the economy and society.



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For the next period 2018-2020, the overall architecture and cross connection between the Work Programmes seems to have been clarified and simplified mainly based on the previous years’ experience.

As a summary, 4 focus areas have been identified to run horizontally among different WPs. The Transport part of the Work Programme will, contribute to the following focus areas

Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future Digitising and transforming European industry and services

These focus areas will be touched within all the 3 Calls which will keep on being granted following the previous years, namely:

1) Call Mobility for Growth [321 Mln €]1 : This call is split in more sections and contains a "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future" Focus Area section (section 1: “Low-carbon and sustainable transport”)

2) Call Automated Road Transport [52 Mln €]: This is a "Digitising and transforming European industry and services" Focus Area call)

3) Call European Green Vehicles Initiative [139 Mln €]: This is a "Building a low-carbon, climate resilient future" Focus Area call

Figure 2 – budget for main transport related calls in the 2018-2019 periods

1 Budget is available only for 2018-2019 perdiod



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Figure 3 – MfG detail: 4 thematic sections

Other budget will be dedicated to Blue Growth, to the Energy part of the work Programme (through ELENA facility) as well as to the European Innovation Council Pilot scheme. Other actions will be implemented by public procurement and/or other instruments (see section ‘Other actions’). These actions are part of the Transport Challenge envelope and complement the content of the Calls. For the purpose of finding a specific Time Efficiency relevance – with different levels of direct and indirect connection- one can note a well-defined symmetry between ACARE’s WG’s areas and the broad lines for the SC4 development.

ACARE goal/s SC4 threads Aim MfG thematic section

Environment Resource efficient transport that respects the environment

The aim is to minimise transport's systems' impact on climate and the environment (including noise and air pollution) by improving its efficiency in the use of natural resources, and by reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and energy imports

1 – Low Carbon and sustainable Transport: Research and innovation activities will support the transition towards zero-emission and quieter mobility across all transport modes. It will lead to improved tools and mechanisms for monitoring and detection of emissions and noise in road vehicles, ships and aircrafts and will provide cities, regional and national authorities and spatial planners with evidence of long term impacts of the current developments in transport technologies and business models on spatial planning.

Customer centric Mobility

/ Security

Better mobility, less congestion, more safety and security

The aim is to reconcile the growing mobility needs with improved transport fluidity, through innovative solutions for seamless, inclusive, affordable,

2-Safe integrated and resilient systems: Research under this section is expected to contribute significantly to transport safety across transport modes and more particularly to the goals set by the Transport White



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Socio-economic and behavioural research and forward looking activities for policy making

safe, secure and robust transport systems that make full use of modern ICT capabilities.

The aim is to support improved policy making which is necessary to promote innovation and meet the challenges raised by transport, including the internalisation of external costs, and the societal needs related to it. Socio-economic research is also an important instrument for reaching the objectives under this programme.

Paper on close to zero road fatalities by 2050, as well as to Sustainable Development Goals 3.6 and 11. It is also expected to contribute to the decongestion of road/city infrastructure by modernising and increasing the reliability and competitiveness of Intra-European Waterborne transport, as well as to the integration of the European network for logistics into the global one by supporting the sustainable development of new logistics routes and their links with national/regional markets. 4 – Accounting for the People: will help create an innovative and inclusive digital travel ecosystem that improves the travel experience and citizen well-being.

Competitiveness / Research

Global leadership for the European transport industry

The aim is to reinforce the competitiveness and performance of European transport manufacturing industries and related services on global markets including logistic processes and retain areas of European leadership (e.g. such as aeronautics).

3 – Global Leadership and Competitiveness: Actions under these topics will contribute to the development of advanced technological capabilities in transport exploiting both evolutionary and disruptive technologies which will result in strengthened global leadership, environmental protection and enhanced travel comfort and safety. In particular, the research topics will contribute to advanced multidisciplinary and collaborative capabilities for the design and manufacturing of vehicles along their life cycle as well as to the development of visualisation methods and big-data analytics tools. They will also investigate further passenger-centric business cases, spanning multiple transport stakeholders.



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The better introduction of the focus areas and the “Accounting for people” thematic issue are the most evident news concerning potential Time efficiency Impact from funded calls. They are directly linked to a customer centric view and the digitization of the transport system, which perfectly matches the previous years’ analysis completed during the CATER projects in WP2 and WP4.

As per Figure 4 there is a large amount of calls related to Road and a strong increase in Water modes. Multi-modality is well represented directly impacting on TE perception by customers.

The 4-hour-door-to-door goal is instead clearly addressed by only one call related to aviation to make faster aircraft. The general perspective is thus working on new mobility paradigms, services and business models mostly connected to the outside-the-airport part of the door-to-door model.

Figure 4 – 2018-2020 Call Analysis overview

The Mobility for Growth calls are by far the most directly connected to TE. The connection is related to ACARE’s Mobility, Security and Research priorities. Many “research” calls are indeed strictly connected to mobility, but addressing more directly policy makers and regulators with required actions to pave the way to the application of more technical and business-led developments (Figure 5)



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Figure 5 - Match between ACARE goals and Time Efficiency Calls classification

More in detail, Mobility is particularly pursued with digitisation and customer centric developments in the “Accounting for the people” areas. Nonetheless the enhancement and re-thinking of current paradigms is present among all the 4 thematic sections, while considering environment, security and competitiveness as main constraint and targets. A direct call topic concerning faster aircraft connections - the only one directly linked to the 4-hours-door-to-door target - attains to the competitiveness domain (Figure 6).

Figure 6 – MfG Calls Vs. Thematic sections



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Figure 7 - ACARE Goals Vs Calls – 2018-2020 (Left) and 2016-2017 (Right)

Figure 7 clearly shows an increased multi-target approach of the new WPs, where the competitiveness, research, security and environment targets are to be considered while improving mobility. From the point of view of the budget, this seems to justify the evident unbalance towards the thematic sections of environment, safety and competitiveness, along with the fact that customer centric research is usually related to actions needing less costs (Figure 3). Finally, international cooperation is highly requested as standardizations and behavioral issues should be faced not limiting to EU, while trying to push European industry to the top of competitiveness. In order to address these important challenges, five international cooperation flagships are identified In aviation, a multilateral cooperation with multiple partners will be pursued to obtain greener and safer

aviation. Cooperation with the US will focus on road transport automation and safety. Other areas of international cooperation include resilient infrastructure, freight logistics and climate change

mitigation. Cooperation with China, India, CELAC and other countries will focus on reduced emissions and green vehicles

(especially in urban areas). Multilateral exchanges on transport R&I strategies and investment priorities could be pursued with the

major international partner countries.

2.2.2 Other Calls potentially Impacting TE As part of the Transport package, Automated Road Transport and Green Vehicle calls were scanned. They don’t provide direct connection to time efficiency, yet they are a strong enabler especially in the integrated view evidenced in the new programme. As partially examined in the last D2.19 release, the H2020 WPs agenda also takes into accounts high TRL, mature stage innovation of PPP and Joint Undertakings such as ‘Clean Sky 2’, ‘SESAR’, ‘Shift2Rail’ and ‘Fuel Cells and Hydrogen 2’ Joint Undertakings. Other interconnection areas are confirmed with the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems (Galileo and EGNOS) empowering new technologies for automation, connectivity and digitisation.



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A further grid of interconnections is represented in the following:

'Information and

Communication

Technologies' (ICT)

'Nanotechnologies, advanced materials, biotechnology and

advanced manufacturing and processing' (NMBP)

‘Space, Secure,

clean and efficient energy’

‘Climate action, environment,

resource efficiency and raw materials’

'Secure societies'

Digitisation, Connectivity

Automation

Competitiveness

Environment

Safety and Security

Due to the advance in time, budgets were uncomplete at the time of writing this document, especially for 2020. The SPACE WP was lagging behind. The Picture below represents the entire calls budget with indirect and direct connection to Time Efficiency. Unfortunately, only the Transport and ICT WPs were able to provide complete budget provisions. With reference to Time Efficiency and Mobility, in the following the ICT and Security WPs are swiftly explored as main sources of connections to digitization and connection enablers for a customer-centric development and to introduce new, resilient forms of advanced and connected mobility.



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Figure 8 – Overall Time Efficiency estimate (incomplete) budget2

'Information and Communication Technologies' (ICT)

ICT-26-2019-2020: 5G Long Term Evolution In synergy with the following one it will be delivering a long term service network going beyond improving the current one locally. “Whilst 5G early introduction targets "local" network improvements (e.g. at radio access level), the longer term vision targets the realisation of pervasive mobile virtual services, through a network managing compute, storage and transport connectivity functions in an integrated way. The challenge is to transform the network into a low energy distributed computer, where processes and applications are dynamically created, moved and suppressed, depending on the information flows, customer needs, and where new terminal types in cars, objects, appliances, and new interfaces based on gestures, facial expressions, sound and haptics may be the basis of the interaction between humans and the infosystems.” ICT-24-2018: 5G for connected and automated driving This call has a direct relevance as it is a necessary connectivity and automation enabler of automated drive In turn, automated driving is indeed forecasted to decrease congestion and indirectly address Time Efficiency in new ways. “It covers the viable applicability of 5G connectivity to "Connected and Automated Driving" (CAD) V2X use cases, taking a broad service approach, including and reaching beyond safety/efficiency use cases of C-ITS. It aims to qualify and quantify from a business perspective the added value of cellular connectivity compared to pure meshed connectivity or to purely disconnected scenarios, and to enable a wide range of services to connected cars in support of innovative business models enabled by 5G connectivity (e.g. new mobility scenario, car as

2 Neither Space, nor Security WPs budgets were available. No budget in any programme was available for 2020



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cellular relay node). It takes forward cellular connectivity for vehicles, targeting use cases which are difficult or impossible to realise from a technical or business viewpoint with existing technology and requiring improved performance of typical parameters such as low latency, reliability, security, location, throughput, security. Validation of 5G in a broad CAD context is realised through cross border trials along 5G corridors covering significant portions of roads and including the core technological innovation expected from 5G, such as (but not limited to) New Radio, new frequency bands, C-RAN, Mobile Edge Computing, network virtualisation, new network architecture. Results of the pilots are used to define options for deployment, taking into account the evolution from earlier cellular technology (e.g. LTE-V2X), and possible co-existence with other technologies (e.g IEEE 802.11p). Cost/complexity assessment of the various options is in scope in relation to who has to invest and to who will benefit commercially.” ICT-45-2018: EU-China 5G Collaboration Relevant and part of a broader international cooperation programme “The scope is to conduct 5G trials addressing two specific scenarios: scenario n°1 -enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) on the 3.5GHz band, which is a priority band in the two regions for early introduction of very high rate services; and scenario n°2 - Internet of Vehicles (IoV) based on LTE-V2X using the 5.9 GHz band for Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) and the 3.5 GHz band for Vehicle-to-Network (V2N). The overall goal is to evaluate in real setup innovative end-to-end 5G systems built on the outcomes of the previous phases of the 5G R&I. More specifically, the optimisation of the band usage in multiple scenarios with different coverage is a key target, so as the validation of the geographic interoperability of the 3.5 and 5.9 GHz bands for these use cases. Both scenarios shall be implemented in both regions (EU and China) through testbeds with interoperability forming the core of the R&I work.”

ICT-31-2018-2020: Artificial Intelligence This call has a indirect relevance as it aims at improving automated drive and overall smart environments in many industrial and societal sectors. “The challenge is to fully exploit the potential of AI in the economy and society. Building notably on Europe's Scientific and Technology strengths in the field, the supported activities should reinforce industrial competitiveness across all sectors including for SMEs and nontech industries and help address societal challenges (e.g. ageing, transport). The focus is on R&I areas in AI where collaborative work at European level can make a difference amidst the fierce world-wide competition in the field. The ambition is therefore to make AI technologies and resources available to developers and innovators in all sectors and actively engage with a wide user community, including non-AI experts.”

SU-ICT-04-2019: Quantum Key Distribution testbed This call in the domain of Cyber-security is directly linked to increased safety and security of the upcoming technologies improving new mobility in the next years. Therefore an indirect link to the themes of Time Efficiency is present and its themes are to be considered in the development of the transport systems of the future. “Europe's economic activities and Europe's single market is dependent on well-functioning underlying digital infrastructures, services and data integrity, not the least for critical infrastructures like energy, transport, health, finance, etc. Current security of the digital infrastructures and services will soon be under threat of no longer providing long-term security. Confidentiality of data and communications, authentication, as well as the long-term integrity of stored data have to be guaranteed, even in the advent of quantum computers.



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Introducing Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) in the underlying infrastructure has the potential to maintain end-to-end security in the long-term.” EUJ-01-2018: Advanced technologies (Security/Cloud/IoT/BigData) for a hyperconnected society in the context of Smart City In the frame of EU-Japan cooperation and sharing of high level competencies this call pursues a whole digital enhancement of performance and security in Smart cities services and technologies also enabling next generation mobility and transport.” Furthermore, interoperability of IoT devices/platforms is of particular interest in the context of Smart Cities (the areas of energy, social infrastructure, traffic/transport, healthcare, and disaster/crime prevention) in order to promote collaboration between a variety of business operators and platforms connecting to various IoT devices, open source, standards, SDKs, common APIs, are the cornerstone of the EU-Japan collaboration.”

Secure societies - Protecting freedom and security of Europe and its citizens

SU-INFRA01-2018-2019-2020: Prevention, detection, response and mitigation of combined physical and cyber threats to critical infrastructure in Europe The definition of protection and resilience in next generation transport related infrastructure (among others) is strongly linked to the development of new mobility and its acceptance. “The focus (will be) on any type of installation belonging to one of the following critical infrastructures: water systems, energy infrastructure (power plants and distribution), transport infrastructure, communication infrastructures, health services, e-commerce and the postal infrastructure, and financial services” SU-INFRA02-2019: Security for Smart Cities and "soft" targets in Smart Cities This call presents multiple synergies with transport as the previous one, but with increased focus on urban areas and data protection. “The generation, processing and sharing of large quantities of data is fundamental for the digitisation of cities, aiming to make urban systems and services responsive and able to act upon data in real-time. The distinct smart technological and communication environments (urban, transport infrastructures, companies, industry) within a smart city require a common cybersecurity management approach.” SU-DS05-2018-2019-2020: Digital security, privacy and accountability in critical domains/sectors This call will require specific demonstrators and pilots including the transport domain. “Proposals in this topic should develop cyber innovation-based pilots/demonstrators devoted to piloting solutions in the specific critical domains mentioned above. During the conception and development steps, critical domains specifics such as complexity of infrastructure and their large scale should be taken into account. These pilots/demonstrators will possibly use the transversal cyber infrastructures and capabilities developed in other R&I projects to demonstrate how the developed innovations can satisfy specific requirements in these key vertical sectors.

SESAR 2020 JU



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Although Sesar 2020 is out of the scope of analysis of CATER, there is no doubt that its impact on the airport side of Time Efficiency is paramount in the frame of optimization of ATM operations and the definition of a Single European Sky.

Figure 9 – Sesar 2020 concept (Source – Single programming Document 2017-2019)

D2.19 did explore the most important calls for the 2016. Here, a short update with 2017 calls is reported. According to the H2020 participant Portal Data, c.a. 28 Mln € have been granted through calls in 2017.

Figure 10 –SESAR 2020 2017 calls budget (Source Participant Portal)

Some most relevant calls examples are reported below. They fully agree with ACARE’s targets, as they aim at improving ATM performance and resilience, ultimately decreasing congestion effects, speeding up operations and decreasing delays. SESAR-VLD1-02-2016: Integrated Airport “Traffic growth is expected to strengthen for the coming years in most European airports. One of the major challenges those airports will have to encounter within the next years is to manage increased congestion



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while maintaining safety. Whilst ground technology will play a significant part in addressing these challenges, the airspace users must integrate seamlessly, without incurring unacceptable additional costs. This demonstration project will coordinate the Airspace User (AU) involvement in the demonstration of innovative airport operations functionalities designed to improve airport operations. The functionalities that will be demonstrated are advanced concepts that are related to the core scope of the second Air Traffic Management (ATM) Functionality of the Pilot Common Project (AF#2 of the PCP). In particular it demonstrates the use of two distinct functionalities designed to improve airport operations from an airspace user perspective: on-board surface traffic alerting system and On-board taxi route guidance. With reference to the SJU Annual Work Programme 2016, this topic covers Section 3.5.4, sub Work Area 2.1 topic b).” SESAR-VLD1-06-2016: Increased access to airports for low visibility mixed fleet operations “Not all airports have advanced landing aids as the ones currently found at larger airports which allow operations in bad weather. Small to medium size airports are located in geographical locations where IFR approaches are difficult or impossible due to their proximity to high terrain or other obstacles. Business Aviation needs to operate, with increased resilience, at such smaller airfields. However, the concepts being demonstrated will be of relevance to all airports where any reduction of landing minima could be implemented, to the benefit of all types of operator. This demonstration will address the use of advanced on-board equipment and GNSS augmentation through EGNOS or GBAS by business aviation to support safe access to small and medium-size airports to ILS Cat II and Cat III-equivalent minima. With reference to the SJU Annual Work Programme 2016, this topic covers Section 3.5.4, sub Work Area 2.1 topic f).” SESAR-VLD1-05-2016: Efficient services and infrastructure delivery “As the airspace of Europe becomes ever more congested, the ability of the Network to absorb the disruption resulting from a significant loss of capacity for numerous reasons, including technical failure, degrades. This has the potential to lead to widespread delays and eventually cancellations to flights which result in unacceptable disruption and unexpected extra costs for airlines and passengers alike. The aim of this topic is to demonstrate examples of how resilience in ATM service provision can be increased through the geographical decoupling of the ATM Data Service Providers from the Air Traffic Service Units so that, in the event of failure, ATM data services could be provided from a remote location. This concept is known as ‘virtualisation’.”

2.3 National Programmes Analysis The analyses performed and reported in D2.19 have been enhanced in terms of scanning the major national programmes (Italy, Germany, France, UK, The Netherlands and Belgium programmes among others were analyzed thanks to the CASK semantic search tools and other CTECH’s in-house instruments). They have been explored by CTECH to assess the representation of TE related themes among the funded topics. The examined time frame includes the 2016-2017 period.



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The following data have been acknowledged UK, France and Italy are the main EU countries with a most evident commitment to transport research France reveals most dedicated programmes and large funds, well divided among transport modes,

while on the other end Italy and UK share a more bottom-up budget whose results are difficult to assess UK pursuits a business-led environment for research aiming at industry and SMEs The time release of funds is also different. France and UK seem to have an annual release and increased

updates. As main barrier to the analysis it is worth reporting a strong fragmentation of information and budget

uncertainties. UK and France seem to be far over the average concerning this aspect, with comprehensive websites and factsheets to recover and understand data.

In the Following 3 different tables are reported focusing on the different countries.

Table 1 – Italian funding potentially Impacting on Time Efficiency

Program Country Budget [Mln €]

Description

MISE: BANDO PER IL FINANZIAMENTO DI PROGETTI DI

RICERCA E SVILUPPO NEL SETTORE DELL’AEROSPAZIO

Italy Not Known

The call aims at supporting research and development projects focusing in the aerospace sector. Project proposals can be submitted by Italian Large companies and SMEs operating in the aerospace sector.

MIUR – EUROSTARS-2 Call for proposals 2017

Italy 0,5 The Eurostars Programme is a European Joint Programme dedicated to the R&D performing SMEs. Eurostars aims to stimulate these SMEs to lead international collaborative research and innovation projects by easing access to support and funding. It is fine-tuned to focus on the needs of SMEs, and specifically targets the development of new products, processes and services and the access to transnational and international markets. To be eligible, the project can address any technology area, but must have a civilian purpose and be aimed at the development of a new product, process or service. A Eurostars project should be market-driven: it must have a maximum duration of three years, and within two years of project completion, the product of the research should be ready for launch onto the market. The exception to this rule applies to biomedical or medical projects, where clinical trials must be started within two years of project completion.

Table 2 - French funding potentially Impacting on Time Efficiency


Description



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Call for Expressions of Interest -

Road vehicle and mobility of the future

France 250 The call for expressions of interest "Road vehicle and mobility of the future", supported by ADEME, concerns industrial research collaborative projects on road vehicles and mobility systems for the transport of persons and / or goods. The projects may include: technologies and innovations to improve vehicle performance, including energy savings, lower cost and / or the full cost of ownership of the vehicle, the environmental gain, gains in value perceived by the customer, technologies and innovations in the connected vehicle or autonomous / automatic vehicle. Projects may also include the development of new technical solutions integrating innovations on the joint vehicle / services / infrastructure through digital; the vehicle-infrastructure interface; autonomous or automatic vehicles (vehicles delegation of conduct, cybercars), experimentation with innovative uses of mobility of people as goods. Projects may involve the development of new forms or new uses of mobility (people and / or goods) based on services using the technologies of computing and communications; innovations to improve the performance of logistics since innovations are linked or interfaced with road vehicles (pooled or collaborative management of the last kilometer, logistics system of the future based for example on the model of the physical internet or the type of "intelligent cargo" devices); the innovations in the mixed transport passengers / goods linked or interfaced with road vehicles.

Call for proposals - Vehicle in its environment

France 30 This Call for Projects is part of the Future Investment Program. It aims to finance innovative projects developing technologies, services and industrial solutions concerning the link between road vehicle and its environment. The work must be located on national territory. This call is open to economic operators which might contribute to the implementation of advanced management systems of vehicles and road traffic, taking into account the nature and condition of the vehicle in relation to its environment, particularly under the scope of the connected vehicle and the development of the internet of things. Expected solutions can address both sensors, brick technology, systems, complete solutions, services and new business models and bring all or part of: the development of the vehicle evaluation sensors (detection of a disruption of operating systems, location in relation to the technical control, etc.), Real-time evaluation of driving situations in a vehicle flow or level of an individual vehicle (location, speed, number of passengers, loading rates of commercial vehicles, etc.), improving the performance and cost of automatic identification systems for vehicle characteristics (plates, typology EURO certification standard, etc.), Environmental data of the operation (such as, for example, the identification of free parking spaces, parking aids, eco-driving, etc.) and the development of traffic management services allowing to optimize or reduce the flow on some routes, according to the actual conditions or impacts on air quality or noise, possibly in a predictive sense (deployment of alternative routes, changing the direction of traffic, adapting speed limits, traffic restrictions for certain vehicles, etc).

Call for proposals - Logistics and intermodal

France 50 This Call for Projects (AAP) is part of the Future Investment Program (AIP). It aims to finance research and development in the field of logistics and freight transport, helping to accelerate the development and deployment of technologies that optimize the flow at "nodes" logistics (ports, railway stations, airports, logistics platforms), and to promote inter-modality and modal shift. The work must be located on national territory and be coherent with the results of the National Logistics Conference held July 8, 2015. Expected solutions may in particular include: improvement, optimization and automation of handling and transfer of goods between different modes of transport; the identification and traceability of goods in a logic of interoperable systems (as on all modes and open sources); the development of standardized containers or freight containers, modular, recyclable, secure, traceable and usable on all modes; information systems and support systems for the management and operation of optimized flows and tools for the interconnections between the various existing systems; the efficiency of logistics platforms; electricity or gas supply for road transport or electricity in the dock in ports allowing ships to stop their motors; improvement of storage conditions, including automated inventory management, automatic set of devices, pooling in particular to optimize the fill rate and reduce empty returns of vehicles.



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Call for proposals - Ships of the Future

France 40 The call for proposal "Ships of the Future", supported by ADEME, concerns projects of research and development for the shipbuilding industry, leading to industrialized productions. This call for proposals covers the maritime, river and yachting sectors. The call "Ships of the Future" concerns vessels and ships having: commercial transport function (people and / or goods) a work function (fishing, installation and maintenance in the field of renewable marine energy, maritime areas surveillance, research, dredging, resource exploitation) or a recreational function (Pleasure) The call is for projects for the dissemination of innovations on the operating conditions of vessels, including the energy consumption; the spread of new information technologies in ships; reducing the overall releases of a ship; improving safety and security; efficiency of production processes.

Call for proposals - Aid for investment for clean

ferries

France 20 The call for expressions of interest " Investment aid for clean ferries ', worn by ADEME, aims investments for cleaner ships, whose environmental impact goes beyond community standards. The call for projects target new and existing passenger ships of over 10,000 UMS operating on regular services between EU ports . The call for projects concerns: ships dual-fuel engines that use liquefied natural gas (LNG) including conversion of existing ships atmospheric emission reduction systems to go beyond Community standards or to comply with future standards (eg washing systems of exhaust fumes, Selective Catalytic Reduction)..

Digital innovation contest France nk The Digital Innovation Contest Bpifrance supports innovative projects integrating digital. It should help accelerate and amplify the development of innovative products or services based on digital technologies. Innovation projects are not only technological, but may also relate to marketing, customs, business model, distribution, design, process or organization. The project must seek a breaking effect (the contents, the process of implementation, the economic model, the process or the organization). Projects must involve at least one of the 8 following application areas: live better: health, fitness, wellness, share: commons, collaborative consumption, better learn and grow: culture, media, entertainment, education, help each other: human services, social connection, best move: city, tourism and mobility, consume better: payment, finance, commerce, better produce consumer goods, plant of the future, buildings and infrastructure, build green growth: environmental and energy transition

Table 3 - UK funding potentially Impacting on Time Efficiency


Description



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Innovation in Infrastructure Systems

UK 15 Scope The aim of this competition is to speed up and broaden the innovation which creates UK business growth in infrastructure systems. Projects must have innovation in one of the specific competition themes: Energy systems The ability to match energy supply and demand, which are smart systems solutions that integrate energy generation and demand at local, regional or national scales, and create significant improvements in value proposition, energy affordability, security and reduced carbon emissions. Nuclear fission Leading to major cost reductions, improved asset integrity and supply chain development for the UK and global civil nuclear markets, including decommissioning. Offshore wind Resulting in substantial reductions in the cost of energy from offshore wind. Connected transport: improve network capacity, efficiency and reduced operational cost, whilst (i) balancing transportation infrastructure peak demands, (ii) connecting different transport modes to provide better services, greater flexibility and reliability, and (iii) reducing logistics problems. offer greater system intelligence in existing transport networks; future-proof transport infrastructure for advanced vehicle technologies. Urban living Addressing citizens’ challenges in cities and urban areas to offer citizen-centric solutions such as better health and wellbeing, increased productivity and higher resilience to change, by integrating different types of urban infrastructure systems. 'Smart' infrastructure Smart, resilient and sustainable integrated infrastructure that add intelligence to: improve functionality, capacity, productivity, security or whole-life performance; improve resilience and sustainability; reduce the risk of failure; reduce whole-life costs or environmental impact.

The Small Business Research Initiative

UK 15 The SBRI programme enables businesses to bid for technology-based public sector development contracts. Through SBRI competitions, businesses are invited to develop innovative solutions and products for specified problems and unmet needs in the public sector. SBRI enables government departments and public sector organisations to procure new technologies faster and with managed risk through a phased development programme, and it provides paid contracts for the critical stage of product development. It is particularly suitable for SME and early stage businesses. Successful companies are awarded commercial contracts to prove the technical feasibility of their proposals, typically within six months. The most promising technologies can receive a further contract for demonstration of product capability, to be completed usually within two years.

Open Programme UK 15 Scope This competition is open to the best business-led, innovative or disruptive ideas or concepts, which can be drawn from any technology, engineering or industrial area, including Innovate UK’s 4 priority sectors. Projects must demonstrate both: innovation leading to novel, new products, processes or services; clear and anticipated growth and commercialisation impact for the business(s) leading to a significant return on investment (ROI). Priority will be for proposals that are likely to lead to sustainable gains in productivity and/or access to new overseas markets through export-led business growth. Eligibility & Funding All projects must be led by a UK-based business of any size, carrying out project work in the UK, working alone or in collaboration with commercial, research or third sector organisations.

SMART UK 25 The scheme offers support to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to engage in Research and Development projects in strategically important areas of science, engineering and technology, from which successful new products, processes and services could emerge. The Smart scheme will support Research and Development projects which offer potentially significant rewards and could stimulate UK economic growth. Funding is available to single companies. Any UK SME working in any sector may apply; applications are accepted on a rolling basis for assessment. The next batch assessment dates for 2015 are the 21st of May and the 16th of July. Three types of grant are available: 1. Proof-of-market grant: This grant enables companies to assess the commercial viability of a project, through: market research, market testing and competitor analysis, intellectual property position, initial planning to take the project to commercialisation, including assessing costs, timescales and funding requirements.



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C. Conclusions & Next Steps During the final period September 2016 – June 2017, CTECH has performed an extensive analysis of the Work

Programme of Horizon 2020, also analyzing the Joint Undertakings Clean Sky 2 and Sesar 2020 in order to assess

their link to CATER main topics and objectives. The Work Programmes 2018-2020 have been thoroughly

explored in advance and a comprehensive preview has been produced.

As a general result

Trends show clearly how ACARE goals, D2D and TE themes have strongly populated the Mobility For

Growth (MfG) Calls while several crosscutting topics related to IT new enabling technologies are also

to be monitored and have the potential to be very relevant for future TE improvements.

Automation, connectivity and new mobility services are the main lines of development. A new

“Accounting for the people” thematic section has been introduced into Mobility for Growth, in order

to take into account acceptance, policy and human factors, including a strong customer centric view,

which is fully compliant with TE targets and ACARE WG1 expectations.

Yet, very few topics are directly related to TE issue or directly tackling customers’ perception.

The main target seems to have strongly integrated priorities where security and environmental issues

are respected while developing new products and services.

The major role into improving TE inside the airport seems to be left on Joint Undertakings initiatives

(e.g. SESAR 2020)

The most recent National funding opportunities have been scanned for major EU countries.

Italy, France and UK are the most active countries, even if with most different attitudes.

France has the best and clearest set of calls dedicated to different transport modes.

UK is set on business-led innovation

An inherent lack of budget details has been found analyzing Italy

In view of the closure of the CATER activities, the results of this deliverable will be provided to stakeholders

with full notification about funding opportunities and findings on CATER related pages – Website & Social

Groups and among Ciaotech network.



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D. Annexes - List of Transport related Calls (2016-2020)

CALLs specifically addressing the ‘4hrs door-to-door goal’. MG-1.5-2016/2017. Identification of gaps, barriers and needs in the aviation research

MG-3-05-2020: Towards a high-speed global air transportation demonstration

CALLs specifically addressing relevant on improving Time Efficiency via another goal related to time efficiency, in a directly perceptible manner for travellers

MG-3.4-2016. Transport infrastructure innovation to increase the transport system safety at modal and intermodal level(including nodes and interchanges)

MG-4.1-2017. Increasing the take up and scale-up of innovative solutions to achieve sustainable mobility in urban areas

MG-6.1-2016. Innovative concepts, systems and services towards 'mobility as a service

MG-6.2-2016. Large-scale demonstration(s) of cooperative ITS

MG-6.3-2016. Roadmap, new business models, awareness raising, support and incentives for the roll-out of ITS

MG-7.2-2017. Optimisation of transport infrastructure multi-modal corridors and terminals

MG-7.3-2017. The Port of the future

LC-MG 1-6–2018: Sustainable multi-modal inter-urban transport, mobility and spatial planning in large metropolitan regions

LC-MG 1-7–2018: Harnessing and understanding the impacts of change in urban mobility on policy making

MG-2.3-2019: Moving freight by Water: Sustainable Infrastructure and Innovative Vessels

MG-4.1-2019: An inclusive digitally interconnected transport system meeting users' needs

MG-4-6-2019: Supporting Joint Actions on sustainable urban accessibility and connectivity.

MG-3-04-2020: Enhanced avionics, operations and door-to-door user-experience through higher connectivity and automation

MG-4-07-2020: Digitisation of the transport system: data sharing, analytics

CALLs relevant on improving Time Efficiency via another goal related to time efficiency, in a non-directly perceptible manner for travellers.

MG-1.3-2017. Maintaining industrial leadership in aeronautics

MG-1.4-2016/2017. Breakthrough innovation

MG-2.2-2016. Development, production and use of high performance and lightweight materials for vessels and equipment

MG-2.3-2016. New and improved transport concepts in waterborne transport

MG-2.4-2017. Complex and value-added specialised vessels

MG-3.1-2016. Addressing aviation safety challenges

MG-3.3-2016. Safer waterborne transport and maritime operations

MG-3.5-2016. Behavioural aspects for safer transport



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MG-4.3-2017. Innovative approaches for integrating urban nodes in the TEN-T core network corridors

MG-4.5-2016. New ways of supporting development and implementation of neighbourhood-level and urban-district–level transport innovations

MG-5.2-2017. Innovative ICT solutions for future logistics operations

MG-5.4-2017. Potential of the Physical Internet

MG-7.1-2017. Resilience to extreme (natural and man-made) events

MG-8.2-2017. Big data in Transport: Research opportunities, challenges and limitations

LC-MG-1.10-2020: Logistics solutions that deal with requirements of the 'on demand economy' and for shared-connected and low-emission logistics operations

MG-2.1-2018: Human Factors in Transport Safety

MG-3.3-2018: "Driver" behaviour and acceptance of connected, cooperative and automated transport –

MG-4.2-2018: New regulatory frameworks to enable effective deployment of emerging technologies and business/operating models for all transport modes.

MG-2-09-2020: Jointly implementing innovation in the areas of safety, connectivity and infrastructure (ERA-net Co-fund)

DT-ART-03-2019: Developing and testing shared, connected and cooperative automated vehicle fleets in urban areas for the mobility of all

DT-DT-ART-06-2020: Large-scale, cross-border demonstration of highly automated driving functions for passenger cars

LC-GV-05-2019: Next generation electrified vehicles for urban use

SU-INFRA02-2019: Security for Smart Cities and "soft" targets in Smart Cities

SU-DS05-2018-2019-2020: Digital security, privacy and accountability in critical domains/sectors

ICT-26-2019-2020: 5G Long Term Evolution

SU-ICT-04-2019: Quantum Key Distribution testbed

EUJ-01-2018: Advanced technologies (Security/Cloud/IoT/BigData) for a hyperconnected society in the context of Smart City

ICT-24-2018: 5G for connected and automated driving

ICT-45-2018: EU-China 5G Collaboration

ICT-31-2018-2020: Artificial Intelligence

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