Funding Opportunity According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), at the end of 2020, 82.4 million people worldwide were forcibly displaced due to persecution, conflict, violence, human rights violations, or events seriously disturbing public order, resulting in multiple humanitarian crises. ESA is currently in discussions with leading humanitarian organisations including the International […]Read More
The European Commission has opened a call for expression of interest for In Orbit Demonstration/Validation (IOD/IOV) Experiments. This call opened on 28 March 2022 and will remain open until the submission deadline on 31 May 2022. Background of this Call One of the main objectives of the Space strategy for Europe is to foster a […]Read More
The Copernicus programme has opened a call for tender for rapid mapping solutions under its Emergency Management Service (EMS) Floods are among the costliest natural disasters in Europe and in the world, and represent around 30% of the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) Rapid Mapping activations. The Rapid Mapping service delivers post-event crisis information in […]Read More
Every year, the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC) recognises companies’ performance, partnerships and outstanding products for their exemplary contribution to the European Earth Observation ecosystem through the EARSC Awards campaign. The awards are drawn from various categories and will be judged by renowned international experts The awards’ results are usually announced during the EARSC EXPANDEO annual cocktail in June. The winners will be announced […]Read More
The Dutch AI and Earth observation sectors show great overlap, as shown by the recently published Dutch AI Landscape and Netherlands Space Industry maps. At the recent virtual Swedish Innovation Days, the updated version of the European AI (Artificial Intelligence) landscape was presented. The first version of the landscape was launched at the end of […]Read More
At the recent European Space Conference in Brussels, the four key partners of the Cassini space entrepreneurship initiative further committed their support for the programme. The European Commission, the EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the European Investment Fund (EIF) committed to multiplying the benefits of space technology […]Read More
EU Awards €17 million to the ILIAD Project to Launch an Innovative Digital Twin of The Ocean. The Dotspace Foundation is proud to be one of the partners in this exciting new project. The ILIAD consortium includes 56 international partners. Together, they will develop virtual representations of the sea that will integrate and extend existing […]Read More
The first EUSPA Horizon Europe calls are open for submissions with a deadline of 16 February 2022, with an overall budget of 32.6 million euro for the development of innovative space downstream applications. Horizon Europe Space Calls Horizon Europe is the EU programme to stimulate the market and support the creation of commercial solutions for the EU space […]Read More
If you are looking to start the new space year 2022 with a new great business idea based on space data, then you are making a great choice! Never have there been more opportunities to build a solid new business around space data! Open Calls Platform Together with the Netherlands Space Office (NSO) Groundstation.Space developed […]Read More
The first Horizon Europe call managed by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) is now open for submissions. With an overall budget of 32.6 million EUR, the call aims at developing innovative downstream applications that leverage data from the EU Space Programme, namely Galileo, EGNOS, and Copernicus. The deadline for applications is […]Read More



















