Intro

Physical and Digital Infrastructure (PDI), connectivity as well as cooperative information and action represent important resources which enable and support the integration of vehicles in the entire transport system. Road authorities and operators can provide essential PDI information to vehicles, road users and other modes of transport. As a complement, connectivity and cooperation are important capabilities of the full range of V2X actors (vehicles, infrastructures, vulnerable road users etc.). This is a necessary condition to proceed towards CCAM services in a developing CCAM ecosystem

Scope

Actions are expected to address the activities either under area A) Physical and Digital Infrastructure (PDI) supporting CCAM or under area B) Connectivity and cooperation as enablers for CCAM and advanced traffic management while taking into account the complementing nature of both areas

Objectives

– Common understanding of requirements and minimum set of infrastructure adaptations for the physical and digital infrastructure for CCAM systems and services
– Description and development of service architectures of PDI for CCAM systems and services and agreed classification of infrastructure support levels stimulating EU-wide/global harmonisation for classification of infrastructure support
– PDI support concepts of proven maturity
– Connectivity and cooperation enablers and needs for higher levels of automation identified and assessed, based on a detailed use-case-approach for the CCAM mobility system
– Requirements for availability (e.g. coverage, security) and performance of connectivity and cooperation enablers (e.g. data rates, latency, robustness and redundancy, quality of service, resilience against cyberattacks) specified per use case

– Ensured quality of and trust in external data by common definitions (incl. quality indicators definition)

– Feasible and sustainable concepts for and provision of road infrastructure coverage (short- and long-range connectivity along the road network) developed to enable CCAM services, included in testing at living labs and ready for large scale demonstration

The topic is dedicated to public administration to procure research and experimental development that exploits space data and services (e.g. Galileo and/or Copernicus) and that meets their needs

– PCP actions in all areas of public sector interest requiring innovative solutions in different market segments that exploit space data
– Reinforce the national policy frameworks and mobilise substantial additional national budgets, as well as awareness raising, technical assistance and/or capacity building
– Preferably focusing on such areas as EGNSS and/or Copernicus for mobility, U-Space concept for drones, monitoring of infrastructure, crisis emergency management, civil security, sustainable development, climate change, coastal area monitoring and modelling

– Stimulate the public sector in Europe to use space downstream products, involving SMEs and midcaps
– Enable public procurers to collectively implement PCPs to close the gap between supply and demand for innovative solutions
– Bring radical improvements to the quality and efficiency of public services by encouraging the development,validation and certification of breakthrough space-based solutions
– Prepare Galileo and/or Copernicus-based solutions for an integrated approach to support national public authorities
– Decrease of the prices of EGNSS and Copernicus based products/services

The priority for this topic is the development of the technology leading to the deployment of a gravimeter pathfinder mission based on cold atom interferometry

– Development of EU technologies and components for a space quantum gravimeter or gradiometer
– Enhancement of the TRL up to TRL5 for cold atom interferometry components
– Development of software simulation tools to analyse the different mission concepts linked to these sensors or processing and analysis of the sensor data

– Support the EU space policy and the green deal by paving the way for the deployment of a future EU Earth observation mission making use of quantum gravimetry
– Ensure EU non-dependence for the development of capacities leading to the availability of quantum space gravimetry
– Enhance the TRL of all (critical) components necessary to build quantum gravimetry for space

Intro

Assessment of the added value of wetland, peatland and floodplain restoration approaches under different scenarios and monitor their benefits and trade-offs in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and removals, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, a wide range of ecosystem services and biodiversity.

Scope

– Assess the current extent and state of European wetlands, their current and potential GHG profile, the carbon value of services in the baseline and restoration scenarios and estimate the abatement cost for different policy-relevant time periods
– Develop or identify workable tools and approaches for the sound estimation of GHG performance as well as impacts on biodiversity and a wide range of ecosystem services
– Provide guides and recommendations about the scaling up of the solutions

Objective

– Support the EU Nature Restoration Plan of the EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.
– Improve the knowledge base on the status of European wetlands beyond the current state of the art
– Introduction of the quantified greenhouse gas abatement potential of wetland restoration in models and scenarios, for climate and biodiversity
– Analyse the degree to which these approaches related to wetlands are affected by different scenarios of climate change
– Support the implementation of the Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF)Regulation

R&I will focus on reusability concepts including required technologies that have a strong potential for cost reduction, starting with the recovery of the most expensive components such as first stage

– Low cost GNC and avionics

– Manoeuvring control devices

– HMS (Health Monitoring System), propellant management

– Aerodynamic devices,

– Descent and landing/recovery systems, including low latency, closed loop communication systems for landing

– On-ground servicing processes

– Safety critical processes before launch and after landing

– Contribution to the overarching objective of launch cost/price reduction by 50% by 2030

– Innovation acceleration of enabling technologies

– Matured technologies up to TRL5/6, integration of system tests vehicle, on-ground and low altitude system tests by 2023 and contribution to the preparation of suborbital system tests potentially in 2025

– Cost reduction investigation and system tests