Business Incubation – Space Solutions Belgium

Fund your space-related start-up

Next submission deadline: 31 March 2022, 23h59 CET

With the ESA Business Incubation programme, we want to inspire and work with entrepreneurs like you to turn your space-connected business ideas into commercial start-ups companies.

This has proven to be a very successful initiative. Over 700 start-ups have been fostered throughout Europe with thousands of new high tech jobs created thanks to the applications of space systems, the valorization of ESA intellectual properties and the space technologies transfers – and more than 180 new start-ups are taken in yearly at the ESA BICs.

Info & application

Interested in applying for this program? Want some more info on how this program can help you?

Nicolas Helssen
ESA Space Solutions Belgium
T +32 487 355 345

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Watch this video in which Lluc Diaz, Business Incubation and Technology Transfer Officer at ESA, outlines the opportunities in the business incubation network.

Who is it for?

Are you an entrepreneur planning to build a business using knowledge or technology initially developed for space? Or are you willing to apply to space the product or know-how initially developed within terrestrial applications? We are here to support you.

Criteria for applicants

European citizens or start-ups up to 5 years old planning to use:

Space technology for general non-space industrial/scientific/commercial use (spin-off).
Non-space technology for proposing products and services for the space sector (spin-in).

What’s in it for you?

Incentive funding – up to €50k (€25k from ESA and €25k from regional fund) – for the development of products, prototypes software and IPR (no direct labor costs) in addition to the incubator seed.
Support (up to 80h)
- Technical
- Business development (workshops, trainings, coaches)
- IP Consulting
- Financial administration
Access
- ESA and incubator’s networks (coaches, experts, suppliers, VCs) and facilities
- ESA BIC community
- ESTEC – ESA biggest R&D facility
- International events

When can you apply?

This programme is open all year long with 3 evaluations per year.

Application process

Contact your local incubator manager (Nicolas Helssen for Flanders, and Laurence Leblanc for Wallonia) with the form below and get informed about their on boarding procedures.
Download the permanent call documents.
Complete the three templates.
Upload the files in the form below, and send a printed version to Verhaert New Products & Services, Hogenakkerhoekstraat 21, 9150 Kruibeke, Belgium.

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