ENAIRE is the main provider of air traffic control and aeronautical information services in Spain. It provides communications, navigation and surveillance services throughout the Spanish airspace and in the airports of the Aena network with implications in the following areas:

• Air traffic services (control, information, warning and rescue, traffic flow management).
• Operational safety (warning networks, on-board systems).
• Dynamic airspace (sectorization and flexible compartmentalization).
• High altitude airspace operations (sub-orbital flights).
• Free route and cross border air traffic coordination (compatibility of procedures and technology).
• Improved flight paths, minimizing environmental footprint.
• Automated support and virtualization (artificial intelligence and internet of things).
• Scalable capacity (air traffic services delegation).
• Network operations (local, regional and network management levels).
• Data and application services (cloud services, interoperability, sensorica, AI, IoT, cybersecurity).
• U-Space operations (geo-fencing, identification and logging, flight planning, flight following, detection and avoidance of collisions in flight).
• Mixed air traffic integration in Joint airspace (manned and unmanned).
• Integrated, streamlined and interoperable ATM infrastructure.
• Facilitation of advanced passenger travel services (intermodal transportation, passenger experience).
• Other sectors related to air traffic.

Students and future entrepreneurs who have not yet launched their idea can apply.

The objective of this contest is to promote entrepreneurial initiative and promote the transformation of business ideas into real companies.

Contestants will be responsible for their idea and will maintain the intellectual or industrial property of their submitted ideas at all times.

The application deadline is December 31st, 2023 at 11:59 pm CET (UTC+1) although the organization reserves the right to extend the deadline.

The ideas submitted will be evaluated on the basis of the information provided in the application form, “Business Model Canvas”, according to the following criteria:

-Degree of innovation, differentiation and originality of the idea presented.

-Value generation.

-Realism of the proposed concept in the environment where it is intended to be developed.

-Validation of the proposed market.

-Economic viability.

-Growth potential.

Participants can choose to enter only in the first phase of the competition to win one of the three awards for the best idea (€5,000, €3,000 and €1,000). 

To qualify for the award of the best business plan (€10,000) it is necessary to participate in the incubation.

The incubation will take place between February and April 2024.

We will announce the award for the three best ideas in February 2024 and the award for the best business plan in June 2024.

The economic award will be deposited to the bank account indicated by each winner and will be subject to the legally established withholding tax.