The UPM and Isdefe set up a Chair on Air Traffic Management

As part of the Innovation Horizons Network, on Wednesday, 21 February, the Honourable Dean of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Mr Guillermo Cisneros Pérez, And Isdefe’s CEO, Mr Francisco Quereda Rubio, entered into an agreement to create the Isdefe Chair on Air Traffic Management at the Advanced School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering (ETISAE). The purpose of the new Chair is to engage in technology foresight and analysis activities, as well as to generate and disseminate knowledge in the area of Air Traffic Management (ATM). The Chair will also have a scholarship programme for students at the school.

Both the Dean and the CEO underscored the long history of collaboration between the two organisations, the “open door” policy of Chairs for accessing the University’s multidisciplinary knowledge, and the importance to Isdefe of supporting the new Chair in identifying the effect that new technological developments have on ATM.

The Innovation Horizons Network is an Isdefe initiative, in concert with academia, aimed at identifying and analysing emerging or disruptive technologies and methodologies in the areas of Defence and Security and others, which could pose challenges to the Public Administration in the future.