Noracon Explained

NORACON (NORth European and Austrian CONsortium) is a consortium member of the SJU PPP that is managing the Research & Development (R&D) phase of the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) Programme .

Overview

NORACON aims at participation in the SESAR project thus developing the future ATM systems according to theATM master plan.

Among the activities are:

• i4D operation - giving improved correlation between airborne FMS and ground predicted trajectories
• Remote and virtual tower - e.g. allowing TWR ATCO to work for multiple airports

Legal basis

A consortium agreement defines how these close competitors will work together under the SESAR project.

Funding and Budget

NORACON is taking part in the 700M€ industrial share of the SJU PPP.

Members

The members of the NORACON Consortium are:

• Austro Control
• Avinor
• EANS
• Finavia
• IAA
• Isavia
• LFV
• Naviair
• Swedavia

External links

• NORACON
• SESAR JU web site
• SESAR
• Description of the SESAR Work Packages
• EUROCONTROL