Space grants in Germany
Explore Space grants for companies in Germany. This list brings together funding for launch, satellites, earth observation, in-orbit services and space science from German innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Germany, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Space in Germany come first.
Showing 49-72 of 329 grants
Eurostars Call 12 for projects
🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands
Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
BASS — Wildfires
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wildfire monitoring programs improving response, prediction, and ecosystem safety.
ESA InCubed — Co-funding
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports startups commercializing Earth observation by funding service development and downstream applications.
EUDIS Business Accelerator
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.
Growth Projects
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Co-funds market-expansion projects for space-enabled solutions already proven in a first market.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
Proof-of-Concept Studies and Pilot Projects for Space-Enabled Applications
🇪🇺ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds businesses building commercial services on top of space assets.
'Proof of market' to improve valorisation and commercialisation of Horizon generated R&I results
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to 25 small consortia EUR 200,000 each to test the commercial exploitation potential of results that already came out of earlier Horizon Europe or Horizon 2020 Cluster 4 projects.
5G/6G Services Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays companies up to 60,000 EUR to test space-enabled 5G/6G service ideas.
6G NTN-TN Unification/Integration
🇪🇺SNS JU · European Union
Funds research on core technologies that let satellite (non-terrestrial) and terrestrial 6G networks operate as one seamless system.
AI Earth Intelligence for Public Decisions
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds AI tools that combine Earth observation and socioeconomic data for environmental policy, resilience and competitiveness.
Automated Road Transport
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds feasibility studies on satellite-enabled automated and connected road vehicles.
BASS — Digitalisation of the Water Sector
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds water resilience projects using space-enabled data and digital tools.
BASS — Sustainable Wetlands
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Funds space-enabled wetland and biodiversity projects that strengthen climate adaptation and ecosystem care.
BASS — University of Tomorrow
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Supports educational institutions developing space-enabled learning applications and innovation pilots.
Bioengineering in the Space Environment
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 200,000 euros to study bioengineering business ideas that use microgravity.
Blue Capital
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month feasibility study, up to 60,000 euros, for 'Blue Natural Capital' services.
CASSINI Challenges Prize Contest 2026
🇪🇺EUSPA · European Union
Pays a fixed €100,000 prize to each of 12 winning EU space-tech applicants.
Circular Economy Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for circular-economy ideas using space data.
Connected Agriculture Kick-Start
🇧🇪ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays 75% of a 6-month study, up to 60,000 euros, for satellite-connected farming services.
Connected Rural Communities Kick-Start
🇦🇹ESA · Global / Multinational
Pays up to 64,000 euros for satellite-enabled services connecting rural communities.
Coordinated access to European spaceports
🇪🇺HaDEA · European Union
Funds a study that proposes common rules and best practices so European launch providers can access any European spaceport more easily.
Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) evolution: new and innovative processing and methods for future Sentinels and other satellites for reanalyses
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one research project up to EUR 10 million to improve how the Copernicus Climate Change Service turns satellite and historical data into long-run climate reanalyses.