The Strategic Research Agenda (SRA) is used as reference by all ACARE stakeholders to formulate European, National and private research programmes. The project activities are based upon the current understanding of ACARE's needs whilst still containing an element of flexibility to meet new and emerging requirements. It comprises four main elements:

1. Co-ordination and analytical support in order to assess the rate/depth of implementation of the technical and institutional goals identified in the SRA. Technical monitoring addresses SRA goal achievement through stakeholder research programmes and the resultant technology development areas. The institutional monitoring will follow a similar path with clear mechanisms identified against which progress will be measured.
2. Technical support in terms of an information base and a set of management aids. It will undertake relevant studies, an example set are given in the work plan. It will establish a series of future air transport system scenarios through key factors affecting future development, their inter-relationships and resulting technology needs. It will create a set of modelling tools that will make use of the results of existing analyses/models and the results of the scenario exercise, to enable the evaluation of research options in terms of their meeting the identified technology needs.
3. Assistance to ACARE in the preparation and dissemination of the SRA, through provision of a professional editing service and the holding of dissemination workshops throughout the ED and US, in order to present the scope and benefits of the SRA.
4. Provision of project management support and administrative services to ACARE and its Working Teams, including planning and control of this support, the arrangement of meetings and the use of data.