Paloma Aba Garrote, Director of CINEA (the European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency), Mariagrazia La Piscopia, Executive Director of the SDM (Single European Sky ATM Research ‘SESAR’ Deployment Manager) and Raúl Medina, Director General of EUROCONTROL and representing the Organisation in its role as SDM Consortium Coordinator, today celebrated the signature of two Grant Agreements awarding €141 million in total to the CLEAN ATM 2 and GREEN CNS projects. Prepared and coordinated by the SDM in response to the 2023 Connecting Europe Facility for Transport call for proposals, the ATM projects CLEAN ATM 2 and GREEN CNS represent another vital step forward to accelerate the modernisation and decarbonisation of the aviation industry. (....)