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ESA Business Incubation Centre Germany

ESA BIC Bavaria, ESA BIC Hessen & Baden-Württemberg, ESA BIC Northern Germany and ESA BIC Rhineland

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
€50,000

EUR 50,000 equity-free funding for product and IP development, plus up to two years of incubation with technical support from ESA experts, business coaching, legal and IPR advice and fundraising support. Some national BICs add local top-up funding.

Funder

European Space Agency (ESA) with the national space agency or regional co-funder

ppp · national

Deadline: Fixed cut-off dates — This ESA BIC runs its own call cycle with published cut-off dates, typically two to four per year. Contact the local centre for the next deadline.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
moderate

Moderate — a form and supporting documents.

Who can apply

Business must use space-based systems, apply space technology in a non-space domain, or develop products and services for the space sector. Company must be registered in Germany.

How to apply

  1. Contact the local ESA BIC to discuss suitability
  2. Submit application documents before the local deadline
  3. Tender Opening Board review, then presentation to the Tender Evaluation Board
  4. Register a company in Germany before signing the incubation contract

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://commercialisation.esa.int/esa-business-incubation-centres/

"€50k equity free funding for product and IP development"

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: commercialisation.esa.int

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