Mr. Nikolche Taseski, President of Management Board of M-NAV and ANS Executive Director and Mrs. Jasminka Gocevska, ATM Expert forInternational Collaboration in ANS participated at GateOne CEO Brainstorming Meeting held in Budapest on 20-th of September. Participants from thirteen Air Navigation Service Providers from the region have attended the meeting.

Initially, during the meeting, the future positioning of GateОne as well as the method of operation of the said common platform were brainstormed by the attendees. Each of the Executive Directors of ANSPs, partners of GateОne Platform expressed their position and view about the already established common vision and mission of the alliance.

Mr. Kornél Szepessy, the Chairman of GateОne through presentation enabled the attendees to be reminded of the original purposes to which the alliance strives for, the enhancement of the network functions, knowledge sharing,  establishing coordination platform, joint strategic positioning and objectives and advocacy – based on consensus.

Furthermore, by members` inputs, the essential challenges that directly affect the future of the said platform and the need the same ones to be redefined were highlighted during the meeting. Fear from overlapping with CANSO and with other alliances can cause conflict of opinions, lack of commitment, rigid decision-making were also taken into account. The presentation of SWOT analyses of GateОne enabled the attendees to obtain clearer image about the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

With an aim of reaching a common understanding of the future directions and positioning of GateOne Platform, the members were divided into 4 groups and by releng brainstorming each group made appropriate conclusions that were further considered as direction for further functioning of the platform.

Members of GateОne accepted the proposal conclusions, i.e. in future the method of advocacy when voting to be changed from consensual to two-thirds majority, all members to have active status, the main focus of the future functioning of the said platform to be real content and the actual topics and issues. The following conclusion has arisen out of the joint position of the attendees at the one-day meeting, as soon as possible GCC to prepare proposal changes of the GateОne Agreement into which all adopted changes related to the method of voting will be incorporated and submitted to CEOs in order to adopt them during the forthcoming meeting in Sofia. At the same time, there was a suggestion all members to submit proposal changes and amendments regarding the strategy, the vision and the mission of GateОne.