Certificate Program: Advanced Air Mobility: Perspectives on the New Low-Altitude Economy

Build the Knowledge, Skills, and Vision to Shape the Future of Urban Flight

The Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) Certificate Program is a three-course learning experience designed to equip forward-thinking professionals with a comprehensive understanding of the emerging Low Altitude Economy.

As cities rethink mobility and aviation enters a new era of electrification, autonomy, and urban integration, this program offers a unique opportunity to explore-then actively shape-the next frontier of air transport. Across three interconnected courses, you will gain a 360-degree view of AAM's technologies, infrastructure, regulatory challenges, and economic potential:

Course I (Day 1&2): AAM Ecosystem, eVTOLs & Emerging Platforms

Begin with a deep dive into the full landscape of AAM vehicles and systems. Explore eVTOLs, eSTOLs, eCTOLs, UAVs, autonomous flight technologies, energy solutions, and the broader mobility ecosystem they must integrate into.

Why It Matters

As cities grow upward and outward, AAM is rapidly movingfrom concept to commercial reality-and not without debate. This course examinesthe controversies, promise, and practical challenges behind tomorrow's urbanair networks, giving you a balanced and informed perspective.

What You'll Gain

By the end of the course, you'll be able to:

• Understand the full conceptual landscape of the Low-Altitude Economy
• Evaluate the opportunities, risks, and readiness of key AAM platforms
• Assess how new aviation technologies integrate into evolving urban mobility systems
• Form informed viewpoints on AAM's technical, societal, and economic impact

Course II (Day 3&4): AAM Infrastructure, Regulation & Economics

Move beyond technology to understand what enables AAM to scale. Examine vertiport and airport requirements, unmanned traffic management, certification pathways, sustainability considerations, public acceptance, and the investment realities shaping the sector.

Why This Course Matters

While technical innovation often dominates the conversation,AAM can only succeed when seamlessly integrated into the urban fabric,regulatory landscape, and economic ecosystem. This course provides theholistic understanding needed to navigate these intersecting challenges.

What You'll Learn

By the end of the course, you will:

• Understand key regulatory and certification hurdles across AAM platforms
• Evaluate requirements for airport and vertiport infrastructure and the evolution of air traffic management
• Analyze sustainability claims and their real-world implications
• Recognize the social, operational, and economic factors influencing AAM adoption
• Appreciate the investment logic driving the Low Altitude Economy

Course III (Day 5): Designing an AAM Venture

In this capstone course, you'll transform everything learnedin Courses 1 and 2 into a real-world entrepreneurial challenge. Working insmall teams, you'll design, develop, and pitch a new venture within the rapidlyemerging Low Altitude Economy-whether it's an eVTOL, eCTOL, or eSTOL startup, aUAV operation, a vertiport development plan, a regulatory or systems concept,or any other innovative solution shaping the future of AAM.

The course unfolds over a dynamic one-day workshop:

Morning Session: Build Your Pitch
Collaborate in groups of 2-4 to refine your venture idea and develop apersuasive investor presentation modeled after a professional business plan. 

Afternoon Session: Present & Persuade
Teams present their proposals, gaining practical experience in communicatingvision, strategy, and feasibility to potential investors, policymakers, ormedia stakeholders.

Why This Course Matters

The Low Altitude Economy is expanding quickly-and with it, aglobal wave of startups competing to define this new frontier. This courseprovides a structured, creative space to explore opportunities, developbusiness acumen, and evaluate the social, environmental, and economicdimensions of AAM innovation.

What You'll Gain

By the end of the course, you will:

• Translate AAM knowledge into a viable venture concept
• Understand the components of a clear, compelling business plan
• Strengthen teamwork, strategic thinking, and investor communication skills
• Gainhands-on experience pitching an idea in a realistic market context
• Explore your interests within the AAM ecosystem while contributing original insight

Enroll in this course and step into the future of air mobility!

Whether you're an aviation professional, urban planner, policymaker, technologist, or investor, this certificate program provides the insights and tools needed to navigate one of the most transformative mobility revolutions of our time. You'll leave with both a strong conceptual foundation and practical experience-ready to contribute to, influence, or innovate within the rapidly evolving AAM landscape.

Program Pricing

The regular tuition for the 5-day Certificate Program is EUR 3,000 (plusEUR 570 for 19% VAT).

Alternatively, the program fee is USD 3,520 (plus USD 670 for 19%VAT).

Registration

Register now and step into the role of innovator and entrepreneur-design the future of advanced air mobility.

Start the registration process by creating a profile here https://www.enrole.com/erau/jsp/login.jsp. Then add the session to your cart and move forward with your credit card payment. If you require an invoice and payment via bank wire, send an email to europe@erau.edu or call +49 1520 4043490.