Copernicus Masters
Awards over €300,000 in cash prizes to entrepreneurs building Earth-observation data products.
Copernicus Masters is a European Space Agency (ESA) prize that awards over €300,000 in cash across multiple themed Challenge tracks to entrepreneurs building Earth-observation data products. Entrants pick one themed Challenge track and submit an idea, business concept or application built on Earth-observation data, and a jury of research and industry experts reviews each Challenge on its own rathe…
The competition is open to Earth-observation ideas built on Europe's Copernicus and Sentinel satellite data, spanning environmental monitoring, transport and logistics, farming and forestry, civil security, cloud and mobile services, and satellite imagery or radar applications. Applicants pick a themed Challenge track to enter rather than a single generic category.
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