Space grants in Germany

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Funds teams scaling up AI-powered Earth-observation products toward real commercial or public-service use in areas like agriculture, water and disaster response.

Funds early-stage digital technology — health monitoring, smart avionics, AI data processing — that makes future launch systems more autonomous.

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Funds up to three research projects, worth as much as EUR 5 million each, to build digital technologies that make European satellite communication and Earth observation systems work better and connect to terrestrial networks.

Funds on-ground or in-orbit demonstration of structural-damage detection and thermo-mechanical monitoring for reusable launch systems.

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Backs space-enabled digital solutions for tracking sensitive and food supply chains.

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Zero-equity co-funding for space-enabled water-resilience monitoring in stressed river basins.

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Funds AI, digital-twin and IoT tools that make satellite and drone-based environmental monitoring systems cheaper and easier to use.

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Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.

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Funds up to three teams, EUR 5-7 million each, to push mid-maturity launcher propulsion breakthroughs like staged combustion, hybrid, aerospike or autophage engines toward flight readiness.

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Awards five prizes of EUR 950,000 each to low-maturity, breakthrough innovations anywhere in the access-to-space supply chain, short of a complete launch solution.

Funds research on detect-and-avoid sensors, drone integration, space-launch coordination and robust satellite navigation for ATM.

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Funds €3–6M projects on the digital building blocks of satellite comms and Earth observation — payloads, ground processing, interoperable data access.

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Funds €5–10M consortium projects that mature Earth observation and SatCom technology to flight readiness, ahead of real demonstration missions.

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Funds €10–15M projects building launch pads and ground facilities on EU territory, so European launch providers can fly from European spaceports.

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Funds one €3–4M project turning a prototype irradiation facility into a booked-beam-time service for radiation-testing Europe’s space chips.

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Funds one EU project, up to €13M, to build and qualify a radiation-hardened FPGA chip so Europe's space missions stop depending on non-EU suppliers.

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Funds €1.5–2.5M teams mining space-science mission data — astronomy, heliophysics, solar-system exploration — into publications, tools and data products.

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Funds one €6–7M project to industrialise an EU source of semi-insulating SiC substrates — the wafer base for the GaN chips in satellite radios.

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Funds €2–3M projects developing a European refuelling interface — the docking hardware that lets satellites be topped up in orbit.

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Funds AI-driven monitoring and data tools that improve Arctic or Antarctic observation systems for climate and biodiversity tracking.

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Funds one demonstration project up to EUR 5 million to build satellite-based tools that detect oil spills, chemical discharges and garbage at sea for EU pollution enforcement.

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Funds start-ups and SMEs building in-space servicing, on-orbit operations and space robotics that strengthen the resilience of EU space infrastructure, as one of six topics under the EIC Accelerator 2025 call.

Funds EUR 1.5-1.8 million demonstration projects that turn Galileo and EGNOS satellite navigation into commercial tools for crisis and security practitioners.

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Fully funds feasibility studies on satellite-based microgrid management for developing economies.