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H2020 ALIGHT

Programme Dates: 2020 – 2024

Programme Funders: European Union’s Horizon 2020 Innovation Programme

This programme has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 957824

Programme Partners: Copenhagen Airport (CPH), Danish Technological Institute, Lithuania Airport, Rome Airport, Solidarity Transport Hub Poland (CPK), Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), Nordic Initiative for Sustainable Aviation (NISA), International Air Transport Association (IATA), German Aerospace Center (DLR), AirBP, Hybrid Greentech, BMGindroz Consulting, the University of Parma and Hamburg University of Technology

RSB Programme Lead: Arianna Baldo

Programme Location: European Union

Programme Website: https://alight-aviation.eu/

Overview

ALIGHT is an EU-funded Smart Airport programme, launched in November 2020 and running for four years to develop a model of a sustainable airport of the future.

The 16 programme partners are working hard towards a vision of zero-emission aviation to be showcased at Copenhagen Airport, with fellow airports in Rome, Vilnius and Warsaw looking to replicate best practice solutions developed through ALIGHT.

The ALIGHT concept will demonstrate the supply, integration and use of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) and the supply, integration and implementation of smart energy for use in the airport.

RSB will provide important guidance on the use of Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF) in the programme – ensuring that the programme utilises SAF that is compliant with RSB’s best-in-class sustainability standard and by providing expert advice and support throughout the programme.

Programme Aims

1. To facilitate Copenhagen Airport as a Lighthouse Airport, showing the sustainable way towards zero emission airport operation.

2. To facilitate the deployment of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), e-mobility, energy storage and waste heat recovery at Copenhagen Airport (Lighthouse airport), Rome Airport, Vilnius Airport (fellow airport) and the new Warsaw Airport.

3. To secure knowledge transfer and tools supporting a smooth and efficient replication on a European scale.

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Programme kick-off
Programme wrap-up

Programme wrap-up

Programme News

SAF Sustainability Guidance for Airports 13 January 2023

Airports play a crucial role in the Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) economy since they are the intersection node of several stakeholders of the aviation sector – including fuel producers, traders, airlines, governments, and society. However, airports do not yet have […]

RSB researches SAF in top airports’ sustainability strategies 30 May 2022

The drive to develop viable, fully commercialised sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is gaining momentum. By the beginning of 2020, over 250,000 flights had taken off using SAF blends and over 6 billion litres of offtakes had been achieved. Currently, SAF […]

RSB in EU project helping CPH and European airports to achieve sustainable and carbon-neutral aviation 16 October 2020

In close collaboration with Danish Technological Institute, a consortium led by Copenhagen Airport (CPH) in collaboration with 14 other European partners has won an EU tender to create the sustainable airport of the future. A grant of close to EUR 12 […]