Call themes 2015 Special conditions Contact Information Online

SPACE
THE SPACE THEME OF THE HORIZON 2020 PROGRAMME DEVELOPS THE COMPETITIVENESS OF EUROPEAN SPACE
INDUSTRY AND APPLICATION IS SATELLITE NAVIGATION (GALILO) AND EARTH OBSERVATION (COPERNICUS). THE
SPACE THEME HAS A BUDGET OF 1.5 BILLION EURO.
Call themes 2015
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Galileo – satellite navigation technologies and services (25 M€)
Earth Observation – satellite remote sensing, climate change, applications (25 M€)
Protection of satellites and the Earth (6.5 M€)
Industrial competitiveness and Science – e.g. spacecraft electronics, Mars landers, human
space flight, propulsion technologies, space weather, near Earth asteroids (39 M€)
SME initiative (8.5 M€), Fast Track to Innovation (3.4 M€)
Other actions mainly in satellite navigation (70 M€)
Call for proposals opens: 4 November 2014
The calls for proposals closed on 8 April 2015
The budget for the call is 182 million euro.
Special conditions
The participation of third countries and international organisations is welcome in all other topics
except critical technologies for spacecraft. Few topics have predefined beneficiaries, such as the
European Space Agency or The European GNSS Supervisory Authority.
Contact Information
Pauli Stigell, NCP
Tekes, www.tekes.fi
GSM +358 50 5577 856
pauli.stigell@tekes.fi
Online Sources of Information
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European Commission Space Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/space
European Commission Participant Portal:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home
EU Research and Innovation Programmes: http://www.tekes.eu
Projects of FP7 (2007-2013): http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html
Cordis Partner Search: http://cordis.europa.eu/partners
Topic list
SME Instrument
Fast track to Innovation
Earth Observation
EO 1 – 2015: Bringing EO applications to the market
EO 2 - 2015: Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus Sentinel Data
EO 3 – 2015: Technology developments for competitive imaging from space
Protection of European Assets in and from Space
PROTEC 1 -2015: Passive means to reduce the impact of Space Debris
Competitiveness of the European Space Sector: Technology and Science
COMPET 1 – 2015: Technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness
COMPET 2 – 2015: Independent access to space
COMPET 3 – 2015: Bottom-up space technologies at low TRL
COMPET 4 – 2015: Space exploration – Habitat management
COMPET 5 – 2015: Scientific exploitation of astrophysics, comets, and planetary data
COMPET 6 – 2015: International Cooperation in space science