Enaire has taken an active part in the European Drone Summit (EU Drone Summit 2026), held yesterday and today in Brussels, through the participation of its Head of Division for U-space Operations Development, Daniel García-Monteavaro. The meeting has brought together more than 300 representatives of the main political decision-makers, regulators, operators, manufacturers and experts in the drone sector in Europe.
The forum, driven by the European Commission and supported by Belgium’s Ministry of Transport and the Sesar Joint Undertaking, has also featured the presence of the Commissioner for Sustainable Transport and Tourism, Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the Belgian minister for Mobility, Climate and Ecological Transition, Jean-Luc Crucke, the Director General DG MOVE of the European Commission, Magda Kopczynska, as well as other European authorities.
The first day of the summit has focused on technical sessions and specific workshops centered on regulatory, operational and technological challenges in the sector. In this context, García-Monteavaro participated in the session "Sesar Solutions: From research to demonstration and deployment", moderated by Cengiz Ari, Programme Manager for the Sesar Joint Undertaking in the U-space field.
In that session, he presented together with Marina Jiménez Navarta, from Eurcontrol, the "Guide to Good Practice for U-Space Implementation", a document developed within the framework of the U-Elcome project with the aim of facilitating a harmonized deployment of U-space services across Europe.
During his presentation, García-Monteavaro detailed the experience obtained in the U-Elcome project, which has served to validate the deployment of digital services for the safe management of drone operations at different sites in Spain, France and Italy, thereby driving the creation of a common European framework for the integration of unmanned aircraft into airspace.
Also, Raquel García, Head of R&D at Cridsa, Enaire’s research subsidiary, has taken part in the session "The future SESAR research priorities in the field of drones and Innovative Air Mobility", also moderated by Cengiz Ari, from the Sesar Joint Undertaking. In her presentation, she outlined the progress of the European project Raxus, in which Enaire participates, together with representatives from other strategic Sesar initiatives, such as Verti-go.
The European Drone Summit 2026 has likewise served as a meeting point for the exchange of experiences on the implementation of U-space, operations beyond the pilot’s line of sight (BVLOS), advanced air mobility, and the next European research priorities in the field of drones.
At present, Enaire is part of 15 Sesar research and exploration projects, taking the lead in two of them.