Tapping into this excellence provides rich opportunities to get your product or service market-ready and off the ground.

The Business Applications programme lends technical, financial and business support to transform ideas into products and services. They are managed by local champions who connect the centres to local- industry, universities, research organisations, government and investor communities. Helping industry to demonstrate the commercial potential of their new products and services in the market provides an important springboard for becoming sustainable, successful businesses. ESA Business Incubation Centres (BICs) are embedded in a local community.

ESA Business Applications is part of ESA Space Solutions that supports the development of sustainable services utilising space assets. It provides funding opportunities and expert support to entrepreneurs. Apart from open-competitive Invitations to Tender, the ARTES Programme offers continuously open Call for Proposals (CfP) for the ARTES Competitiveness & Growth (C&G) and ARTES Integrated Applications Promotion (IAP) elements. ESA Business Applications offers funding and support to businesses from any sector who intend to use space (satellite navigation, earth observation, satellite telecommunication, space weather, space technologies) to develop new commercial services. ESA Business Applications is the go-to place for business ideas involving space in all areas of society and economy. Space assets like satellite data or spaceflight technologies offer … Its mission is to support entrepreneurs in Europe in the development of business using satellite applications and space technology.