Horizon Europe program opens 25 tenders to allocate funding for Space-related projects this Thursday, October 28. The European Union’s funding program for 2021-2027 has 95.5 billion euros to support research and innovation projects in various areas.

There are 22 tenders distributed over various themes within the space sector, such as Space Competitive systems (Satellite communications, Earth Observation, On-orbit operations and new system concepts e Electrical Propulsion); Access to Space (Reusability, low-cost, high trust propulsion, industrial sites, new space transportation systems); Evolution Copernicus Services; Quantum technologies for space gravimetry; Space Technologies; Space Science and exploration technologies and Space Weather.

In addition to these opportunities, there are three more, managed by the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), focused on the European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) and in Copernicus, the European Union’s Earth Observation Programme and their application in aspects like the European Green Deal.

The deadline for submitting applications for these opportunities is February 16, 2022.

“One of the fundamental elements of the Portugal Espaço 2030 strategy is the promotion of the diversification of funding sources for the industrial and scientific activities. National companies have in the Horizon Europe program a crucial opportunity to ensure their development, creating new jobs, contributing to the national economic growth and working for the consolidation of Portugal’s position on an international level in such a strategic sector”, says Hugo André Costa, board member of the Portuguese Space Agency.