CORDIS · PEGASUS

PILOTING EUROPEAN GREEN AIR MOBILITY AND SERVICES FOR URBAN SOCIETAL READINESS

Code: PEGASUS
Programme: HORIZON
Call: HORIZON-CL5-2025-04-D6-11
Status: SIGNED
Period: 2026-06-01 – 2030-05-31

EU contribution (whole consortium)4 834 038 €

EU contribution to Bulgarian participants396 729 €

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Participants

Organisations	Role	Country	Grant
THE PROVOST, FELLOWS, FOUNDATION SCHOLARS & THE OTHER MEMBERS OF BOARD, OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY & UNDIVIDED TRINITY OF QUEEN ELIZABETH NEAR DUBLIN	coordinator	IE	752 946 €
AVTRAIN LIMITED	participant	IE	426 012 €
UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA	participant	PT	414 420 €
MANNA DRONES LIMITED	participant	IE	399 375 €
FUTURE MOBILITY CAMPUS IRELAND COMPANY LIMITED BY GUARANTEE	participant	IE	399 000 €
DRONAMICS LTD	participant	BG	396 729 €
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI ROMA TRE	participant	IT	395 750 €
ASOCIACIJA DRONEA	participant	LT	363 625 €
ERINN INNOVATION LIMITED	participant	IE	349 312 €
UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALA	participant	ES	241 500 €
CRSA - CONNECT ROBOTICS SISTEMAS AUTONOMOS LDA	participant	PT	194 947 €
HEAD ACOUSTICS GMBH	participant	DE	149 996 €
TECHNO SKY SRL TECHNOLOGIES FOR AIR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT	participant	IT	125 016 €
ASSOCIACAO PARQUE DE CIENCIA E TECNOLOGIA DE ALMADA/SETUBAL-MADAN PARQUE	participant	PT	76 098 €
JOINT EUROPEAN DRONE ASSOCIATIONS	participant	BE	59 312 €
LIMERICK CITY AND COUNTY COUNCIL	participant	IE	30 000 €
CORK COUNTY COUNCIL	participant	IE	30 000 €
MUNICIPIO DE ALMADA	participant	PT	30 000 €

Description

Urban mobility across Europe is under unprecedented strain, with congestion, emissions, and infrastructure limitations threatening climate neutrality and liveability. Innovative Air Mobility (IAM) including drones and eVTOL systems, offers a transformative solution for low-emission logistics and services. Yet, widespread adoption depends not only on technical feasibility but also on societal readiness: trust, acceptance, and integration with daily life. PEGASUS addresses this challenge by embedding societal readiness as the central axis of IAM innovation, co-design, and deployment.Bringing together four of Europe’s leading IAM operators with social scientists, city authorities, and citizens, PEGASUS will pioneer a Societal Readiness Score (SRS) for IAM. Leveraging over 200,000 completed missions and 200 daily ongoing operations, the project will define, test, and improve this multidimensional metric covering noise, privacy, safety, energy, climate, and inclusivity. Real-world demonstrations in Ireland, Portugal, Italy, and Bulgaria will validate technical and operational innovations designed to increase societal readiness, from low-noise propulsion and optimised flight paths to participatory planning frameworks.PEGASUS will deliver a validated IAM evaluation platform and Societal Readiness Scoreboard empowering policymakers, regulators, and operators with an evidence-based decision-support toolkit. The project will co-develop infrastructure guidelines, multimodal logistics integration models, business frameworks, and public engagement strategies, ensuring IAM is economically viable, environmentally sustainable, and socially trusted. Outcomes will directly inform Sustainable Urban Mobility Plans, producing a roadmap and replication toolkit for EU-wide adoption.PEGASUS will set the standard for responsible, scalable urban air mobility in Europe accelerating climate neutrality, enabling economic growth, and fostering public trust in next-generation transport.

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