A glimpse at the ICARUS policy perspectives provided during the European Big Data Value Forum 2018, BDVA Workshop 2.3 "Policy issues, opportunities and barriers in big data-driven transport", on November 14th, 2018, in Vienna

1. Co-funded by the European Commission
Horizon 2020 - Grant # 780792
ICARUS Policy Perspectives
Dr. Fenareti Lampathaki (Suite5) –
Technical Coordinator
Aviation-driven Data Value Chain for Diversified Global and Local Operations
ICT-14-2017: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation
European Big Data Value Forum, BDVA Workshop 2.3 "Policy issues, opportunities and barriers in
big data-driven transport", November 14th, 2018, Vienna
http://www.icarus2020.aero

2. Some Aviation Facts…
The EU aviation sector directly employs between 1.4 million and 2 million
people and overall supports between 4.8 million and to 5.5 million jobs.
The direct contribution of aviation to EU GDP is €110 billion (Source: EC,
An Aviation Strategy for Europe)
Overall, the aviation industry is experiencing an extended period of
growth and profitability.
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3. Policy Context for ICARUS
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4. Related Policies & Initiatives for ICARUS
Key Priority 2. Tackling limits to growth in
the air and on the ground, by reducing
capacity constraints and improving efficiency
and connectivity
Key Priority 6. Embracing a new era through
innovation and digital technologies
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ICARUS Platform ICARUS Demonstrators
ICARUS Platform
ICARUS
Demonstrators
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5. ICARUS Contribution to Strategic Research
& Innovation Agendas
Challenge 1: Meeting societal and
market needs
Challenge 2: Maintaining and
extending industrial leadership
Challenge 3: Protecting the
environment and the energy supply
Challenge 4: Ensuring safety and
security
Challenge 5: Prioritizing research,
testing capability and education
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ICARUS Platform
ICARUS Demonstrators
ICARUS Platform
Demonstrators
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6. Key Perspectives
“…One of the biggest challenges is to integrate the different data silos, for example weather data, live airspace usage or data from
the airports, and bring that data into the airline. Each airport will have its own platforms to connect its activity and record its operation, there is
really no standard and that complicates things. Even internally we are still merging different data sets from different areas in the company. I
think there is no airline or even company in the world that is there. Insights emerge when you put different
departmental data sets together, but at the moment, it is not a smooth process.”
By Rey-Villaverde (Head of Data Science, EasyJet)
Source: AEGEAN Airlines Presentation in the
“World of Interactive Data” Session
Source: SITA Smart Thinking, 2014

7. Key Challenges within and beyond the
scope of ICARUS
Who owns and controls the passenger data and the aircraft data?
How to trust data sharing contracts on a blockchain instead of bilateral agreements?
How to address the cold-start problem?
How to infuse a data sharing mentality in aviation?
How to promote data standardization among highly fragmented data and actors?
How to facilitate data integration in a flexible manner for business users who lack the
required expertise and resources?
How to generalize algorithms?
How to avoid any bias imposed by the training data?
How to ensure interpretability of the AI results?
I. Trusted and Fair Data SharingI. Trusted and Fair Data Sharing
II. Affordable and Cost-efficient Data LinkingII. Affordable and Cost-efficient Data Linking
III. Insightful and Understandable Data AnalyticsIII. Insightful and Understandable Data Analytics

8. ICARUS in a nutshell
End-to-end encryption of data
Smart data linking over encrypted data
Data sharing contracts written in blockchain
Design analytics recipes and execute analytics
jobs in Private Experimentation Spaces
Schedule analytics jobs over continuously
updated private data
Analytics over data assets usage
Orchestration for resources
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3 NOVEL ICARUS ASPECTS

9. Aviation-driven Data Value Chain for Diversified Global and Local OperationsAviation-driven Data Value Chain for Diversified Global and Local Operations
Topic: ICT-14-2016-2017 Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration
and experimentation
Topic: ICT-14-2016-2017 Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration
and experimentation
Start Date
01/01/2018
Start Date
01/01/2018
36 Months36 Months
Innovation ActionInnovation Action
Summary ICARUS Facts
11 Partners11 Partners
4 Demonstrators4 Demonstrators
5 Countries5 Countries

10. Co-funded by the European Commission
Horizon 2020 - Grant # 780792
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Aviation-driven Data Value Chain for Diversified Global and Local Operations
ICT-14-2017: Big Data PPP: cross-sectorial and cross-lingual data integration and experimentation
http://www.icarus2020.aero
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Technical Coordinator
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European Big Data Value Forum, BDVA Workshop 2.3 "Policy issues, opportunities and barriers in
big data-driven transport", November 14th, 2018, Vienna