- The Director General of Industrial Strategy and Business Land, Margarita Ardao, opened the conference “Strategic Cooperation for a Digital European Sky” promoted by the Xunta de Galicia in collaboration with the SESAR Joint Undertaking within the framework of the new Security, Defence and Aerospace Initiative.
- At the event it was recalled that the deadline to take part in the Initiative’s strategic dialogue with industry, an innovative instrument promoted by the Galician Government to learn first-hand about the needs of Galician companies in the sector, remains open until 22 September.
Santiago de Compostela, 5 September 2025
The Director General of Industrial Strategy and Business Land, Margarita Ardao, opened this morning the conference “Strategic Cooperation for a Digital European Sky”, organised by the Xunta de Galicia in collaboration with the SESAR Joint Undertaking, where she highlighted the strong capabilities of Galician companies to participate in European defence, security and aerospace projects and to attract investment in this sector.
The event focused on informing the business community about the opportunities offered by the Digital European Sky programme, the European aviation framework, regional synergy experiences, and set out the objectives, investment programmes and specific actions within the new Strategic Initiative in Security, Defence and Aerospace 2025-2030 promoted by the Xunta to ensure Galician organisations can benefit from the opportunities presented by the new international context.
Ardao invited the companies attending the conference to participate in the strategic dialogue launched by the Xunta de Galicia to identify the sector’s specific short-, medium- and long-term needs, in order to align the Initiative’s investment instruments with the ecosystem’s requirements. She reminded them that the deadline is open until 22 September.
The Digital European Sky
SESAR forms the technological pillar of the European Union’s Single European Sky policy and a strategic element of the European Commission’s Smart and Sustainable Mobility Strategy. Its mission is to define, develop and deploy cutting-edge technologies to transform air traffic management in Europe.
SESAR 3 Joint Undertaking is a European institutional public-private partnership created to accelerate, through research and innovation, the realisation of this digital transformation: the Digital European Sky. Its work focuses on leveraging, driving and speeding up the adoption of the most advanced solutions to manage conventional aircraft, drones, air taxis and higher-altitude vehicles.
