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The different ways we provide funding and access to the European space network
Technology Transfer
We know where to find outstanding space technology to meet your terrestrial business needs.
Business Incubation
We help entrepreneurs to
start a business using
space technology and data.
Business Applications
We support the short-term transformation of ideas into products and services, using space data and technology.
Our programs
Contact us about these incubation and funding programmes.
Astropreneurs, the accelerator for space and non-space startups that includes business and technical mentorship. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
The Copernicus Incubation Programme supports promising business applications based on Copernicus data and services. The programme awards 50,000 EUR to 20 European start-ups every year.
Supported by the European Commission.
The Copernicus Accelerator offers European start-ups, companies, students and researchers trainings, coaching, and bootcamps.
Part of the Copernicus Start-up programme, supported by the European Commission.
FUTTA II (Fusion Technology Transfer Activities) supports innovative projects in Europe through the promotion of fusion energy technologies and their applications.
GEO Living Labs promote the use of Geolocation and Earth Observation (GEO). The labs combine the knowledge of start-ups, GEO data experts, and corporate industry to create breakthrough applications.
FIRE, the Forum for Innovation and Research in European Earth Observation, focuses on fostering the development of current and future markets for Earth observation in key commercial sectors.
A H2020 project funded by the European Commission.
POINT.IoT stimulates the fusion of IoT – Internet of Things – and GNSS – Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Apply for mentoring, business and technology sprints, and more.
A H2020 programme funded by the European Union.
Why innovate with space?
Space is an incredibly hard environment to work in: weightless, airless and with daunting temperature extremes. The demand for systems that operate reliably for years on end, with no chance of repair, presents a perpetual challenge to scientists and engineers. The resulting technologies are in a class of their own, offering valuable attributes to terrestrial industries.
Success stories
Belgian tech transfers through our network
A Belgian company with extensive expertise in vision and optical metrology has developed a multifunctional microscope, which can be used both as a confocal scanning microscope (LCSM) with dual-wavelength fluorescence imaging and as a differential imaging contrast (DIC) microscope. What’s more, this high-performing microscope is very compact and has a low power consumption. Individual DIC [...]
A European wind turbine maker found itself with an emergency: their new clean-energy turbines were efficient, effective and state-of-the-art – but they were too noisy. It turned out that ESA’s advanced Darwin planet-hunter study provided a smart answer: using the same approach that keeps multiple telescope mirrors precisely aligned to cancel out turbine vibration before [...]
According to Wohlers Report 2016, the AM industry grew 25.9% CAGR to $5.165 billion in 2015. Furthermore, the AM industry revenue forecast by 2020 grew from 9 B$ to 21 B$ between Wholers Report 2013 and 2014. Lightweighting, more integration, topology optimization and customization are some of the key benefits from Additive Manufacturing. In the [...]
The ESA Technology Transfer Network
Space Solutions Belgium is part of the ESA technoloy Transfer Network. Together we exploit technology and know-how from space and initiate a technology transfer between technology provider and receiver. 20 incubation centers within 17 countries, over 60+ locations, support space-related start-ups to get their business off the ground.
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