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Periodic Reporting for period 1 - OPTICS2 (Observation Platform for Technological and Institutional Consolidation of research in Safety and Security)

Teaser

OPTICS2 aims at providing a comprehensive evaluation of relevant Safety and Security R&I in aviation and air transport. The main objective of the project is assessing if Europe is performing the right safety and security research and if the research is delivering the expected...

Summary

OPTICS2 aims at providing a comprehensive evaluation of relevant Safety and Security R&I in aviation and air transport. The main objective of the project is assessing if Europe is performing the right safety and security research and if the research is delivering the expected benefits to society. OPTICS2 works in close collaboration with the European Commission and use the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA), the roadmap towards the vision, as a basis for our assessment activities. OPTICS2 aims to make research more effective and efficient, by identifying future needs, gaps and barriers, and by providing recommendations for further actions. OPTICS offers to ACARE and to other key aviation stakeholders a wider perspective on the recent and on-going research in Europe and to show where are the main gaps and bottlenecks towards the achievement of FlightPath 2050 Safety and Security goals. This objective was tackled through four main type of activity: (1) Review the state-of-the-art of safety and security research, assessing every year the progress against the goals set out by Flightpath 2050 and ACARE SRIA; (2) Carry out an international benchmarking, comparing the state-of-the-art in safety and security research and the societal impact of that research in Europe with non-EU nations; (3) Identify research gaps and bottlenecks for innovation and developing recommendations to address them; (4) Engage with key stakeholders. OPTICS2 considered the Safety and Security Goals of FlightPath 2050 through the clusters of R&I activities and research projects, using a bottom-up and top-down approach. The bottom-up approach (i.e. identification, selection and assessment of R&I projects) focused on how projects and programmes covered the ACARE Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Capabilities and, hence, the Enablers and clusters of FlightPath 2050 goals. This approach allowed the identification of research strengths, gaps, bottlenecks and constraints affecting research progress. The bottom-up approach (i.e. matter experts’ contributions on specific aviation safety and/or security R&I fields) was complemented by two workshops (on “Aviation Cybersecurity” and “Data-science”) with aviation experts and stakeholders intended to identify the research priorities and the impact on stakeholders’ activities. The results from bottom-up and top-down processes were reviewed and compiled to provide strategic recommendations to the EC and/or ACARE via an annual ‘State-of-the-Art’ report, including suggested corrective actions and priorities.

Work performed

Work Package 1 refined the assessment methodology for the state-of-the-art review of safety and security, taking into account the OPTICS lessons learnt and the required adaption to assess security research projects. WP1 defined the methodology used for the integration of the bottom-up and top-down findings. It designed and implemented the Internal Security & Safety OPTICS2 Research Dataset. The refinement of the dataset allowed to collect, organise and assess all the data relative to the project assessed. Based on this work, WP1 produced the yearly release of the Internal Security & Safety OPTICS2 Research Dataset, by aggregating input from Safety Assessment and Security Assessment.
Work Package 2 provided on an annual basis a review of the state of the art of safety research and innovation. The state of the art is defined as the current progress towards Flightpath 2050 and intermediate goals. The review considered the specific contribution of EU and national funded research projects. WP2 benchmarked the state of the art of safety research and innovation in Europe against international safety research and innovation. It identified gaps in the current research landscape that could become bottlenecks to innovation and industry uptake and, thus, it formulated specific recommendations accordingly for each Action Area.
Similarly, Work Package 3 provided review of the state-of-the-art of security research, it assessed the contribution of EU and national funded projects towards achieving ACARE goals and other relevant security goals, it benchmarked technological gaps and bottlenecks to innovation and, based on the findings, it formulated specific strategic recommendations for the five security areas considered.
In Year1 plus Year2, OPTICS2 covered about 300 different projects for Safety and 90 projects for Security for a total of almost 400 projects covered and assessed during the first two years.
Work Packaged 4 listed, contacted and engaged these relevant stakeholders. WP4 defined the scope, objectives and means for Stakeholders’ engagement, in coordination with WP2 and WP3 in order to gain more in-depth understanding of specific issues and to collect their assessment of research benefits and impact. The best format and technique to engage with stakeholders were identified in workshops, roundtable consultations, ad-hoc meetings that were organised and performed to collect and refine findings. During Y1 and Y2 two Workshops were conducted to develop recommendations considering: the input from the review, the assessment of EU research strategy, the international benchmarking, and outcomes of the stakeholders’ engagement. OPTICS2 participated to the activity of ACARE Working Group 4. In addition, a first “Roundtable Consultations” was organised around particular type of bottleneck / gap identified for research security on Human and Organisational topics. This first “Roundtable Consultations” will be carried out at the end of Y2.
Work Package 5 worked to raise the awareness on the project activities to all the relevant aviation stakeholders, including supporting WP4 activities. WP5 promoted the exploitation of the project results to further guide safety (and relevant security) research policies and research activities in the industrial and scientific domains. Dissemination and exploitation planning and monitoring were made concrete into dissemination products such as the website or the “OPTICS2 interactive narratives” as well as by participantion to dissemination Events & Networking like the AeroDays 2019 that contributed to the aviation community with the OPTICS2 results in keep improving and maintaining the Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda and its continued applicability in achieving Flightpath 2050 goals.

Final results

The expected results will be:
• Internal Safety and Security Research Dataset (SSData) containing EU research projects on aviation safety and security, starting from FP7 up to the present (H2020), including programmes like SESAR, CleanSky, Future Sky Safety and National projects.
• Assessment of all the projects in the SSData – the final review will also include the input from the coordinator of the project being reviewed (pending availability of the coordinator).
• Analysis of research progress against Flightpath 2050 and on ACARE Strategic Research Agenda Goals, Enablers and Capabilities.
• Results of the international benchmarking.
• List of yearly recommendations targeting research gaps and bottlenecks, derived from the assessment and from the interactions with stakeholders.
• Dissemination activities and technical handouts to summarise OPTICS2 findings and extend the outreach of its activities. This also includes the release of an Open OPTICS2 Database containing publishable information from projects assessment.

Website & more info

More info: http://www.optics-project.eu.