On 25 March, a group from the European Commission and the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities visited the facilities of the ENAIRE Control Centre in Madrid to see first-hand projects demonstrating how NextGenerationEU funds support the development of the Single European Sky, through the Spanish Strategic Aerospace Project (PERTE Aerospace) of the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan (PRTR).
ENAIRE, the national air navigation manager attached to the Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility, currently manages 107 million euros of subsidies awarded for projects in three main fields: digitalisation, operational safety through technological modernisation, and sustainability. Currently, ENAIRE has already executed 95% of these actions.
ENAIRE’s Air Control Centre in Madrid manages air navigation services over an area of 435,000 square kilometres, which includes the autonomous communities of Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria, the Basque Country, Navarre, Castile and Leon, La Rioja and Madrid, as well as part of Castile-La Mancha, Extremadura and Aragon, and the maritime area of the Cantabrian Sea and the Galician Atlantic coast.
The ENAIRE team presented to the representatives of the European Commission the Air Traffic Control Centre and the equipment and projects managed thanks to the NextGenerationEU funds, through the Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan. During the visit, he highlighted the digital contingency equipment, unique in the world, which makes it possible to increase the resilience of air traffic control services which, thanks to the NextGenerationEU funds and more than 25 million euros of ENAIRE’s own contribution, have been practically implemented.
As part of the visit, the ENAIRE team also shared the challenges it faces in relation to air traffic control management in Spain and interoperability in Europe.
ENAIRE manages a total of 31 projects that are part of investment 2 of component 6 (milestones 90 and 93) of the NextGenerationEU funded Recovery, Transformation and Resilience Plan for Spain. The supported investments in the Madrid Control Centre are part of ENAIRE’s project ‘Actions for the Development of the Single European Sky’, the ACT04 action of the Aerospace EERP.
More information: European Commission
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