Innovation Catalogue
- Read the Innovation Catalogue here!
- Read our Report on Innovation Catalogue – Advice, tools and support provided to the Suppliers
More than just providing a 2.87M€ funding opportunity for R&D, our project is actually a two-year enabling programme and a collective endeavour. SPACE4Cities’ partners will provide support services to the 20 selected suppliers, while ensuring that synergies are created between solutions. This activity is led by Aerospace Valley.
One of the key services is the Innovation Catalogue, designed primarily for European cities, R&I projects and the general public, it will increase the suppliers’ visibility and raise much-needed awareness on space applications, services and data.
Given the broad audience considered, we chose to focus on end users, types of cities, innovativeness, use cases addressed and which space data and services are integrated by solutions. Its appealing colours and extensive use of images and logos says it all: space applications are cooler and more down-to-Earth than you think!
Context
The tremendous engagement witnessed by SPACE4Cities, has proved the necessity to create bonds between the space industry and urban players, especially local authorities like municipalities, regions, public agencies, etc.
On one hand, local authorities face increasingly interconnected challenges and regulations affecting public spaces: light, air and water pollution, noise, climate change impacts, biodiversity loss, disposable land use, climate-neutrality, congestion, security, pandemics, etc.
On the other hand, space-based data and services (also known as the space downstream industry) become ever more adapted to urban challenges thanks to advancements in quality, precision, awareness and accessibility of satellite data. Based on these trends, Earth observation (EO) and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS, notably Galileo) applications are expected to grow to a 55-billion€ market in the EU alone in 2033. However, this market will be largely driven by the public sector which, in the urban context, involves local authorities. Hence the need to help:
- Local authorities master procurement processes related to space technologies so that they can buy fit-for-purpose, cost-efficient and sustainable solutions.
- Suppliers understand and anticipate urban challenges as well as navigate procurement rules, so that they maximise chances of contracting with the public sector.
In terms of technology, SPACE4Cities is the first innovation procurement stimulating both EO and GNSS technologies, thus fostering their combination in meeting both European cities’ and the space sector’s needs. With regard to challenges addressed, it is the first European pre-commercial procurement explicitly covering themes like climate adaptation and urban planning.
Enjoy the reading and join the movement to use space data for public spaces!