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Sesar

The SESAR program, which aims to provide the European Union with
an efficient air traffic control infrastructure to ensure the safe and
environmentally friendly growth of air transport, with interoperability
among all European air transport systems, is now under way with 310
projects in the performance stage.

ENAV is involved in 85 of these projects and leads 15 of them. Also
participating in the program are the subsidiaries Techno Sky and the
SICTA Consortium, and since 2011 the LVNL Consortium, consisting of
Dutch Service Provider LVNL and the NRL Research Center as Associated
Partner. From an economic point of view, the ENAV team’s contribution,
consisting of human, technological, and infrastructural resources, amounts
to approximately ¤71 million, 50% of which is co-financed by the SESAR
Joint Undertaking.

After reaching the maximum of its activity, the SESAR program is now
entering its final phase. In the next two years it will conclude the various
projects under way and begin the new activities budgeted in the SESAR
2020 Program, the natural extension of the SESAR Program, with a time
horizon of 2016-2024.

In May 2013, for purposes of relaunching the SESAR program, increasing
its efficiency by reorganizing the program in Operational Focus Areas
and simultaneously maximizing the use of available Community funds,
the SESAR Joint Undertaking issued a call for tenders aimed at making
better use of the resources used by members, as well as assigning a
number of new activities. After the approval of the reallocation proposal
and the assignment of new activities, the value of ENAV’s commitment
remained essentially unchanged. In 2014, ENAV successfully completed
the first two SESAR demonstration projects, called ATC FULL DATALINK
and WE-FREE, conducted simulations of the demonstration project on
MeDALE remotely piloted aircraft, and launched two new demonstration
projects called RACOON and FREE Solutions, both assigned to ENAV
with the tender for the demonstration projects launched by SESAR Joint
Undertaking in May 2014.