SPACE THE SPACE THEME OF THE HORIZON 2020 PROGRAMME DEVELOPS THE COMPETITIVENESS OF EUROPEAN SPACE INDUSTRY AND APPLICATION IS SATELLITE NAVIGATION (GALILO) AND EARTH OBSERVATION (COPERNICUS). THE SPACE THEME HAS A BUDGET OF 1.5 BILLION EURO. Call themes 2015       Galileo – satellite navigation technologies and services (25 M€) Earth Observation – satellite remote sensing, climate change, applications (25 M€) Protection of satellites and the Earth (6.5 M€) Industrial competitiveness and Science – e.g. spacecraft electronics, Mars landers, human space flight, propulsion technologies, space weather, near Earth asteroids (39 M€) SME initiative (8.5 M€), Fast Track to Innovation (3.4 M€) Other actions mainly in satellite navigation (70 M€) Call for proposals opens: 4 November 2014 The calls for proposals closed on 8 April 2015 The budget for the call is 182 million euro. Special conditions The participation of third countries and international organisations is welcome in all other topics except critical technologies for spacecraft. Few topics have predefined beneficiaries, such as the European Space Agency or The European GNSS Supervisory Authority. Contact Information Pauli Stigell, NCP Tekes, www.tekes.fi GSM +358 50 5577 856 [email protected] Online Sources of Information      European Commission Space Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/space European Commission Participant Portal: http://ec.europa.eu/research/participants/portal/page/home EU Research and Innovation Programmes: http://www.tekes.eu Projects of FP7 (2007-2013): http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/projects_en.html Cordis Partner Search: http://cordis.europa.eu/partners Topic list SME Instrument Fast track to Innovation Earth Observation EO 1 – 2015: Bringing EO applications to the market EO 2 - 2015: Stimulating wider research use of Copernicus Sentinel Data EO 3 – 2015: Technology developments for competitive imaging from space Protection of European Assets in and from Space PROTEC 1 -2015: Passive means to reduce the impact of Space Debris Competitiveness of the European Space Sector: Technology and Science COMPET 1 – 2015: Technologies for European non-dependence and competitiveness COMPET 2 – 2015: Independent access to space COMPET 3 – 2015: Bottom-up space technologies at low TRL COMPET 4 – 2015: Space exploration – Habitat management COMPET 5 – 2015: Scientific exploitation of astrophysics, comets, and planetary data COMPET 6 – 2015: International Cooperation in space science