ESA Space Solutions Demonstration Projects
ESA Demonstration Projects
Status not published
Continuously open for proposals in most participating Member States, subject to national budget availability. ESA recommends contacting your national ESA Space Solutions ambassador before submitting.
Larger follow-on to Kick-Start: ESA funds a pre-operational demonstration of a space-enabled service with real users. Co-funding is typically 50% ESA / 50% company or partner contribution (higher ESA share possible for SMEs in some programme lines). Project values commonly run from several hundred thousand to a few million euro.
You must co-fund 50%.
European Space Agency, Directorate of Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement
public · supranational
Deadline: rolling — Continuously open for proposals in most participating Member States, subject to national budget availability. ESA recommends contacting your national ESA Space Solutions ambassador before submitting.
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
You fund 50% yourself.
Who can apply
- Sectors: space, deeptech
- Stage: seed, series_a, growth
- Locally registered entity required
Registered in a participating ESA Member State with national delegation authorisation. Requires committed pilot users and a credible route to commercial operation.
Source. https://commercialisation.esa.int/funding/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked