Space Science for Societal Challenges Several representatives of Groundstation.Space took part in the online “Space Science for Societal Challenges Workshop” organised by the Lorentz Center on 22 and 23 October 2020. Space sciences, industry, government policy and economics, education, environmental and technological sciences were among the many fields represented, as over ninety participants fleshed out […]Read More
Soon, the next HiTMaT call for proposals will be published. This yearly call stimulates and inspires consortia to come up with innovative solutions to address societal challenges. Winners from this call are granted € 25.000 by Holland High Tech to realize their ideas. The main focus within this call is the collaboration between research institutes […]Read More
Horizon Europe: What we can (and cannot) learn from mission-oriented space policies. Policies relating to space are often used as an example by innovation scholars. Due to enormous amounts of R&D in space technologies, long development times, high dependency on governments, and the high spillover effects, the space sector is emblematic for other sectors dealing […]Read More
Horizon Europe is the European Union’s newest seven-year research and innovation programme. Running from 2021 to 2027, its design will allow Horizon Europe to serve all the headline ambitions of the Political Guidelines of the European Commission. The programme’s general objective is to deliver scientific, technological, economic and societal impact from the Union’s investments in […]Read More
On 27 October 2020 Eurisy hosted the “Space for Cities” workshop. Now they have published the results of this meeting in a report. The report contains the main messages from the workshop, which carried the subtitle “From innovation to operation: A talk about concrete uses of satellite data and services to support cities’ resilience and […]Read More
Earlier this year the European Commission launched its plans towards developing a ‘Digital Twin’ of planet Earth, dubbed ‘Destination Earth’, abbreviated as ‘DestinE’. The objective of this initiative is to develop a very high precision digital model of the Earth to monitor and simulate natural and human activity, and to develop and test scenarios that […]Read More
The European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) is looking for solutions to enhance the EU’s maritime awareness: “multifunctional capabilities, including space based surveillance and tracking (discover, locate, identify, classify and counteract the threats). Deadline: 1 December 2020. Complete call text can be found on the EU portal. Challenge The EU has an increasing need of […]Read More
Wednesday 30 September 2020 – 16:00-17:00 CET In preparation for the EU Green Deal funding calls, dotSPACE Foundation is organising a free webinar for anyone interested in writing a proposal or being part of a consortium. During this webinar a number of experts will talk about the role of space and space data in the […]Read More
The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded funding to nine new research proposals in the area of Earth observation. The new projects will investigate for example geothermal energy, the navigation of songbirds and a historical set of aerial images of the Antarctic Peninsula. The researchers involved will receive the grant from the User Support Programme […]Read More
Matchmaking event for the European Green Deal callsRead More
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