News & events
IFAV3/EASA workshop in Madrid: Advancing Flexibility in Air Traffic Services
The IFAV3 project is pleased to announce its upcoming workshop on 27 November 2025, hosted at ENAIRE/CRIDA A.I.E. premises in Madrid. IFAV3 is a SESAR Joint Undertaking project that aims to increase flexibility in the provision of European Air Traffic Services (ATS). As part of this initiative, the IFAV3 consortium has been working closely with EASA to explore the regulatory and standardisation aspects that would enable [...]
IFAV3 – Smart Sector Grouping (SSG) first validation
The IFAV3 project (Increased Flexibility of ATCO Validation) aims to enable more flexible deployment of ATCOs to sectors by using different strategies, procedural means and technical enablers. From 8 to 9 May 2025, at the 'DATS Workshop on Digital Air Traffic Services: Workload and Safety Assessment' in Norrköping, the initial outcomes of the NLR - Netherlands Aerospace Centre - Linköping University - LFV validation exercise on Smart Sector [...]
Towards a More Flexible ATM: Join Two Key IFAV3 Validation Events in Madrid
Growing traffic numbers, environmental concerns and cost efficiency issues are creating huge demands on air traffic management of tomorrow. A key resource is the availability of air traffic controllers (ATCOs), but current regulations frame their deployment to specific airspaces according to their unit endorsements. The IFAV3 project (Increased Flexibility of ATCO Validation) addresses this challenge by aiming to enable more flexible deployment of ATCOs to sectors [...]
Collaborating to increase flexibility of controller validations
Original content from the NATS website, by Tama Lwambula, Senior Research Analyst. Read the article in their website here. The IFAV project intends to bring in tools for controllers to reduce the sector-specific knowledge currently needed for the licences, aiming to allow controllers to work more flexibly over a wider area. As part of this goal, we are also exploring whether increasing automation in [...]
Making controller rostering more flexible
IFAV3 is a new SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking three years project whose main focus is to increase flexibility of air traffic controllers (ATCO) rostering in the upper airspace, and transfer the know-how about flexible ATCO endorsements from SESAR2020 to remote tower centres (RTCs). The project will be made reality thanks to the joint work of a consortium composed of 13 companies from 7 different countries, highly [...]