Project description
A more sustainable and prosperous future for space entrepreneurs
Leveraging technology and infrastructure to create new space-related products, services and solutions is not easy for entrepreneurs from the space and non-space sectors. They often face financial, administrative and networking barriers that prevent them from turning their ideas into viable businesses. The EU-funded Astropreneurs project aims to support these enterprises. Led by the Instituto Pedro Nunes in Portugal, the project will provide mentoring to entrepreneurs, startups, and small and medium-sized enterprises on business and technical needs and help them access public and private funding to achieve faster market approaches. The Astropreneurs consortium comprises organisations from across Europe with complementary skills and expertise, offering a powerful solution to the challenges space entrepreneurs face.
Objective
Astropreneurs: turning space-related ideas into viable businesses and promoting opportunities for entrepreneurs coming from space and non-space sectors.
We will support entrepreneurs, startups and SMEs, coming from space and non-space sectors, to create viable business cases and have faster markets approaches by mentoring them on businesses and technical needs, helping them to access private and public funding, but also to overcome the financial, administrative and networking barriers that are now preventing them from more success in the commercial phases.
Astropreneurs consortium is solid and sustainable, even at its constitution level. All partners, led by Instituto Pedro Nunes – Portugal, are spread across Europe and represent different types of stakeholders: Verhaert (BE), Brimatech Services GmbH (AT), Science and Technology Facilities Council – STFC (UK), Aerospace Valley (FR), Centrum für Satellitennavigation Hessen – CESAH (DE), CzechInvest (UK), and Knowledge Innovation Market – KIM (SP).
The complementarity of skills and expertise gathered in the CSA, aligned with the unmatched geographical reach is a powerful differentiating characteristic of the consortium, together with the direct participation of the ESA BIC Network & ESA Brokers Network.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
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Portugal