ESA Spark Funding (technology transfer / Technology Broker Network)
ESA Spark Funding
Status not published
Run by national ESA Technology Brokers with their own periodic calls; availability depends on whether your country funds a Spark Funding line.
Small, fast, equity-free grants for non-space companies to adapt and apply a space technology to a terrestrial market. Amounts are set by each national Technology Broker and typically sit in the low tens of thousands of euro per project, often with a co-funding requirement.
European Space Agency Technology Transfer Programme, delivered by national Technology Brokers
public · supranational
Deadline: cutoff — Run by national ESA Technology Brokers with their own periodic calls; availability depends on whether your country funds a Spark Funding line.
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.
Who can apply
- Sectors: space, deeptech, manufacturing
- Stage: pre_seed, seed, series_a
- Locally registered entity required
Company registered in an ESA Member State that operates a Spark Funding scheme. The project must transfer an existing space technology into a non-space application.
Source. https://technology.esa.int/page/technology-transfer — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked