Ready to take your idea and expand it into the space industry? Have you ever considered, how your innovation challenges can reshape the non-space sectors on Earth?
From navigation systems to healthcare applications and enhancing agricultural processes, space technology applications on Earth can pave the way for a more efficient and cutting-edge future.
Design Terminal is organising the Technology Transfer Competition in support of the ESA Technology Broker programme and Spark Funding opportunity, as a steppingstone towards generating novel ideas for successfully applying space technology on Earth.
We’re challenging you to come up with an innovative concept that could result in a breakthrough in space technology and secure you a 20.000 EUR non-refundable financial support to get you off the ground!
About the opportunity
As space innovation increasingly influences industries on Earth, new opportunities will emerge that promote ideation and Research & Development projects. The competition has two goals, first, to support the use of space technologies in non-space industries and second, to encourage companies to address their technological needs by using know-how developed for the space sector.
Submitted proposals do not need to be realised , the current competition should endorse an idea on the application of space technologies in new industries. The project proposal must establish a technology transfer that makes use of one of the following:
A patent from the ESA Space Patents Database or a software from the
European Space Software Repository – List of ESA IP’s and ESSR softwares
Who can apply?
Innovators and space enthusiasts, from any background and expertise can submit a proposal for a space technology transfer using one of the above-listed technologies. Whether you are a team of university students, colleagues, an entrepreneur, a startup, or anyone with a spark of creativity, join our competition with your innovative ideas.
TIMELINE
Representatives of top the 5 proposals will enrol in online mentoring in topics such as pitching, product-market-fit and technological viability, to successfully prepare them for the online Pitch event. At this occasion, a 3-membered industry and space evaluation board will rank the first three proposals that will secure a non-refundable financial support offered by ESA amounting up to 20.000 EUR.
Prize for the 1st place: 20.000 EUR
Prize for the 2nd and 3rd places: 7500 EUR
Application
Applicants must submit an idea-based project proposal. The one-page application document must contain your planned idea for the development with the following details:
When submitting your idea, you will need to describe the:
The application is open until 2 October.
Evaluation criteria
The criteria for evaluating technology transfer proposals are the following: