Future Sky (FS) is a Joint Research Initiative

of the Association of European Research

Establishments in Aeronautics (EREA)
devoted to preparing key technologies and
capabilities for a green and seamless air
transport in Europe.
Within Future Sky EREA promotes joining
forces with the European industry and uni-
versities to design a new air transport system
allowing environmentally friendly, smooth
and efficient air vehicles and associated
mobility.

Green and seamless air transport is to be thought as a key element for the most far-reaching goals
of Flightpath 2050. Striving for a substantial increase in performance, safety, competitiveness,
and acceptance, Future Sky aims at promoting maximum air mobility while making the highest
demands on technologies as well as vehicle, system and operation design.
The overall Future Sky program is subdivided into six topics, each of them called “Future Sky
Theme” and focusing on different aspects or challenges on track to the future air transport system.
Future Sky seeks to rally the available but so far scattered capabilities to tackle the major
longer-term challenges of Flightpath 2050.

For this reason main feature of this program will be the coordination, as far as possible, of research
establishments’ activities in the field of aviation research in Europe. EREA believes institutional
cooperation of European research establishments is the best guarantee to ensure medium and
long term technology development beyond the scope of top-down approach in SESAR and Clean
Sky JUs.

In Future Sky, EREA members develop and pursue roadmaps covering at least a period of seven
years addressing the complete air transport system and tackling research gaps not fully covered
by the national institutional research programs. To fill these gaps subsequent Future Sky themes
are intended to grow into multidisciplinary clusters of excellence for research and innovation in
Europe. Thereby Future Sky makes a substantial contribution to achieving the medium and long
term goals of Flightpath 2050 and helps preparing the Framework Programs to come.
CIRCULAR AVIATION is expected to support the
implementation of circular and sustainable practices
throughout all aspects of aviation, beyond in-flight
operations and impacting in particular the design and
the manufacturing of air vehicles.

CIRCULAR AVIATION – ACTION LINES

m Designing and producing the circular aircraft

m Flying circular
m The circular life cycle of aviation
m Airports and airlines as circularity ambassadors
m Circular policies and regulations
Aviation Security Research Roadmap at Level 1

SECURITY FOR AVIATION is expected to be even 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050

more fruitful than at present by encompassing a Security Intelligence

Catalogue of threats and concepts of solutions and updates

larger scope through agile and dedicated coop- Development of a

joint simulation
Key modules for evaluation of high priority scenarios
Simulation environment as key reference for EU and Member States
Aviation Security Research Roadmap

environment

eration. To cope with this aviation security Evaluation of

scenarios and
First evaluation of dynamic scenarios and concepts
Catalogue of scenarios and concepts to benchmark proposals of solutions
concepts of

challenge it is essential to develop efficient secu- resilience solutions

First set of KPIs

Shared set of KPIs with security community
Reference set of KPIs and updates
Identification of

rity solutions that meet the societal demand, the appropriate KPIs

Strategic numerical facilities

Strategic facilities : numeric and real tests. Upgrades

growth of the air traffic and the adaptations of the

Development of Experimental tools
strategic facilities

international regulations on one hand and that foster

Development of the most efficient technological solutions (use of benchmark)
Development of
Technological
Solutions

the European competitiveness and strengthen our Development of

methodology to
First capabilities to deal with disruptive developments / threats

position in the aerospace field on the other hand.

face "Unknown"

AVIATION SECURITY – ACTION LINES

m Development of a joint simulation environment

and the associated tools
m Security of aviation: a consistent and efficient
methodology
m Security community and society
m Design-in: interdependencies and inter-
modalities
FS UAM Research Roadmap at Level 1 (DRAFT)

URBAN AIR MOBILITY MG-3-6 & MG-1-12 Proposals

2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050

Strategies for
ASSURED
Update (Adaption to Final Demonstrator)

URBAN AIR MOBILITY – ACTION LINES

Mobility AMOSIS

Environment MEDIUM Evaluation of Footprint (w/ regard to market needs)

UAM Research Roadmap

Feasibility ASSURED
Studies
AMOSIS
m A flexibile organization Development
of
EIS
Technological
MEDIUM
@ Clean Sources / Highly Efficient UAS Technology

m Uam class aircraft technology advancement Solutions

Technology
EU
Automation and autonomy
MEDIUM NextGen (Mininmal Footprint UAS)
m
Integration &
Demonstration

m Airspace integration – unmanned and Automation

and Autonomy
Evaluation of Field Data

autonomous traffic management

MEDIUM
UTM/U-space (AMOSIS)

m Strategies for mobility

ASSURED

m Environment – sustainability & societal Milestones covered by current FS UAM White Paper
period 2020 - 2027

acceptance
 FS Energy Research Roadmap at Level 1
FUTURE SKY ENERGY aims at coordinating national Action Lines 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050

and international activities of the EREA research A1 DEP TRL6

Innovative
establishments in order to achieve the critical mass AIE TF trl6

FS Energy Research Roadmap

engines/propulsion
system FE TRL6 HEP TRL6

and the right focus on a large set of stakeholders A2

Innovative energy
FCH TRL4
FCH TRL6 NGB TRL4 NGB TRL6

storage and

needed to achieve a drastic reduction of CO2 emiss- conversion ITM TRL4 ITM TRL6

ions by addressing novel propulsion technologies and

A3
Innovative DR TRL6 BWB / BLI TRL6
configurations H2 ATI TRL6
integrating A1 & A2

their integration in future air transport. FE FTB

A4
Test infrastructure HEP GTB HEP FTB
H2 GTB

FUTURE SKY ENERGY – ACTION LINES DEP Distributed Electric Propulsion

HEP Hybrid Electric Propulsion
NGB New Generation Batteries

ITM Integrated Thermal Management

DR Drag Reduction
BWB Blended Wing Body
GTB Ground Test Bench
FTB Flight Test Bed

AIETF Advanced Integrated Electric TurboFan BLI Boundary Layer Ingestion

FCH Fuel Cells Hydrogen
FE Full Electric ATI Advanced Tank integration

m Innovative engines/propulsion system

m Innovative energy storage and conversion
m Innovative configurations integrating A1 and A2
m Test infrastructure

Quiet Air Transport is expected to be even more Technology

Contributors

fruitful than it is currently by encompassing a larger Group

MNI
Contributors

scope through agile and dedicated cooperation. Enablers

The method evolves but the final objective remains

addressing the long-term strategic noise challenge
Subset
in order to conciliate the competitiveness of the
European Aviation industry with the high living
standard conditions enjoyed by the EU citizens.
Topic
QUIET AIR TRANSPORT – ACTION LINES

m A flexibile reorganization
m Low noise aircraft design and low noise Subtopic

technology
m Noise of supersonic aircraft
m Community noise and health
m Interdependencies and inter-modalities
m Noise of urban mobility and services
FS Safety Research Roadmap at Level 1 (DRAFT)

Future Sky Safety programme will address new safety 2020 2025 2030 2035 2040 2045 2050

research priorities, in much closer coordination Loss of Control & Runway Wx Hazards
Mitigating
Accident

Excursions Excursion Risk Advanced Envelope Protection

with EASA, and as part of an extended network of

Risk

Occupant Survivability
On-board Fire Resilience for Impact

research partners and stakeholders, with the purpose of Integrated SMS

Safety Research Roadmap

Safety & Risk Management

Organizational Interventions

further improving the safety of aviation in Europe and

Safety Oversight &
Performance-based Autonomy
Systemic Risk Reduction

Performance-based Oversight

Human Performance Mangmnt Advanced Virtual Flight Sim

beyond.
& Crew Interaction EBT 2.0 Human Interaction with Degraded Autonomy
Advanced Data Analytics & Risk-AI
Dynamic Risk Modelling Real-time Dynamic Risk Models
From Flight & Ocurrence data Mass Diversion Interventions
to Emergence Detection Data-traps for Emergence Detection

FUTURE SKY SAFETY – ACTION LINES

Maintenance Safety across
10-9 Maintenance
the Vehicle & ATS lifecycle
Emerging

Methods to ensure safe Virtual Certification for Hybrid Electric Propulsion Systems
Risk

performance of new Entrants Safety Assurance for Intelligent Systems

m Mitigating risk for specific accident categories 1

m Systemic risk reduction

m Emerging risk
EREA MEMBERS TOGETHER DESIGNING THE FUTURE OF AVIATION