The Enterprise Europe Network, in collaboration with the Horizon Europe Cluster 4 Space National Contract Points (NCPs), is preparing an international partnering event on Horizon Europe's space calls. This is a virtual event taking place on Thursday 2nd February at 9 am Irish time.
Register here: Horizon Europe Brokerage Event Cluster 4 Space calls 2023 & 2024
Enterprise Europe Network Ireland helps Irish businesses innovate and grow internationally and its services are delivered via a partnership between Enterprise Ireland, Cork Chamber of Commerce, Dublin Chamber of Commerce and the Local Enterprise Office.
The Network helps business grow through tailored supports, new business and technology partnerships, commercial opportunities, licensing deals, and partner searches for EU-funded R&D. The services are tailored to SMEs but are also available to all other businesses, universities, and research centres.
This Space brokerage event is an ideal opportunity for Irish companies and research performing organisations to showcase their cutting-edge innovations to an international audience. The brokerage will introduce the Cluster 4 space calls for proposals for the next two years, present insights and expectations from the European Commission whilst offering a unique international networking experience to forge the winning partnerships of the future.
The event will:
- include presentations from the European Commission and National Contact Points in all areas of Space
- provide a unique opportunity for companies and research performing organisations to pitch ideas and expertise in front of leading research organisations and cutting-edge innovators from across industry
- allow you to extend your international network and create strategic partnerships through scheduled one-to-one meetings.
Participants will also have the opportunity to meet with National Contact Point experts, and the Enterprise Europe Network.
The event is open to SMEs, larger companies and research organisations based on the Island of Ireland and across Europe.
Ireland’s space industry:
Ireland has a long-established history of astronomy and space research. In recent years, Ireland has developed a thriving space industry and research community, facilitated primarily through Ireland’s membership of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Ireland manages its investment in space primarily through the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment (DETE) and Enterprise Ireland. Enterprise Ireland co-ordinates Ireland’s industrial and research participation in the programmes of ESA and the European Union. Enterprise Ireland’s role is to provide a source of expertise for Irish companies in developing and executing space strategies, as well as being a point of reference for the international space industry when they want to identify relevant sources of space-related expertise within Ireland. Ireland’s National Space Strategy for Enterprise, published in 2019, outlines the Government’s vision for Ireland to develop ‘An economically sustainable and expanding space-active industry, delivering quality jobs for the economy of tomorrow’.
Irish industrial capabilities in space technology are highly diverse, including structures, materials, microelectronics, photonics, telecommunications, RF (Radio Frequency) and life sciences. There is also a growing number of Irish companies active in the “downstream” sector in developing products for the related ground segment systems as well as end-user equipment, services and applications which utilise space-based systems. Opportunities exist for Irish companies in developing and adapting technologies for the commercial space market, technology spin-out from space to non-space and in developing innovative applications and services that utilise space systems.
The focus of the ESA/Horizon Europe-Space team at Enterprise Ireland is on strategic autonomy in conceiving, developing, deploying and using global space-based infrastructures, services, applications and data, including by reinforcing the EU’s independent capacity to access space, securing the autonomy of supply for critical technologies and equipment, and fostering the EU’s space sector competitiveness. Overall, the role of the team is to work with Irish industry and academics to develop strategies to exploit opportunities both in institutional space programmes and in the commercial space market.