ELCA Advisory drives Collaboration in Complex Aviation Weather Project
Harmonize aviation weather products across their extended airspace
To address the increasing demands of air traffic management in Europe, five national meteorological and aviation authorities—MeteoSwiss, the German Meteorological Service (DWD), Austro Control GmbH, the Slovenian Environment Agency (ARSO), and Croatia Control Ltd (CCL)—joined forces in the MET-CEUS project. Their goal was to harmonize aviation weather products across their extended airspace, ultimately supporting the objectives of the Single European Sky (SES) initiative in improving safety, efficiency, sustainability, and capacity.
To ensure the smooth execution of such a complex, multi-organization initiative, ELCA Advisory facilitated this collaboration and helped with the overall project management. By taking the ELCA Advisory team onboard in this role as neutral and independent facilitator and project manager, the stakeholders ensured steady and efficient progress against objectives and targets on the back of state-of-the art agile ways of working, and the best possible facilitation of this collaboration across a very diverse set of stakeholders.
Why MET-CEUS chose ELCA Advisory:
- Proven experience in cross-organizational projects
- Standardized and flexible project management methodology
- Expertise in handling complex innovation initiatives involving multiple stakeholders
- Deep subject matter expertise in the space of public sector process and technology innovation
Our approach:
- Implementation of a pragmatic agile methodology
- Maintaining a strong focus on key objectives, ensuring streamlined and effective project execution
- Focus on the common requirements of the participating organizations for the joint products
What was the Impact?
- Joined weather products have been developed and launched and make European airspace safer, more efficient and greener every day
- All of this was done in a very effective, rapid way with minimal resources from the organizations involved
- The basis for continued cooperation between the organizations has been successfully established
A Model for Future Collaboration
The MET-CEUS Convection Nowcasting system has been successfully implemented and is now available in the SWIM registry: MET-CEUS En-route Hazardous Meteorological Polygon Service.
Building on this success, the participating organizations will continue their collaboration, developing further joint meteorological products under a unified SWIM service brand. With the foundation laid by the MET-CEUS project, aviation weather forecasting across Europe is entering a new era of cooperation and efficiency.
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