Project description
Building a responsible path to the stars
Orbiting satellites and space infrastructure are becoming inseparable from modern life, powering everything from communications to emerging technologies. As activity in low Earth orbit accelerates, Europe faces mounting challenges such as environmental strain on terrestrial and orbital ecosystems, growing competition from global players, and the risk of technical failures or security threats. Supported by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions programme, the SPARE project aims to turn these challenges into opportunities. Focusing on sustainability, resilience, and competitiveness, SPARE promotes responsible growth in space. Its world-class training programme will equip the next generation of engineers and scientists to integrate technological innovation with environmental stewardship, regulatory insight, and economic strategy, ensuring that Europe’s expanding presence in orbit is safe, sustainable, and strategically strong.
Objective
Humanity is presently at the brink of a new era in space development likely to irreversibly bind our daily lives to assets in orbit and beyond. Starting from the paradigm of 6G wireless networks that in the next decade will release cellular services from spaceborne base stations, a diverse range of sectors including energy, materials, nano, bio and pharma will extend activities into LEO orbit. Space is thus evolving into an ever-greater strategic priority for the European society, economy, security and sovereignty. Despite World-class capacities that Europe enjoys, present trends present substantial threats for the future. Current practice poses unviable burden on the terrestrial and orbital environments. Competition from established and emerging players threatens the European position, whilst ease of access is turning space into an increasingly contested domain. The vision of SPARE is to underpin Responsible Growth for space along three interconnected innovation objectives:
- Sustainability: ensure space uses natural resources responsibly across terrestrial & orbital environments
- Resilience: embed in space systems security, safety & robustness against technical failures and malicious acts
- Competitiveness: create value proposition amid fast evolving industry, market & regulatory landscapes
Adopting a broad perspective where engineering and technological innovation are intimately linked with the environment, regulation and the economy, SPARE delivers a World-class training programme addressing critical bottlenecks along the pathways to sustainable and resilient growth of the European space sector.
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HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA)
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HORIZON-TMA-MSCA-DN-ID - HORIZON TMA MSCA Doctoral Networks - Industrial Doctorates
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(opens in new window) HORIZON-MSCA-2024-DN-01
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EH14 4AS Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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