NWA will collaborate with ESA in Funding Innovative Ventures combining Space and Nanotechnology
The Nanotechnology World Association (NWA) will collaborate with the European Space Agency (ESA) in Funding Innovative Ventures combining Space and Nanotechnology
Singapore and Paris, April 29th 2020 – The NWA is proud to announce that it will collaborate to promote the ESA Space Solutions program within the NWA’s extensive nanotechnology network of contacts. Under the ESA Space Solutions program, especially within its Business Application element, businesses can submit ideas for innovative services using space technologies and obtain zero-equity co-funding in excess of €2 million per activity, if selected. Moreover, the selected ventures will also benefit from a dedicated ESA consultant, technical and commercial guidance, access to ESA’s network of partners, and the credibility of the ESA brand. This program is open to groups, organizations and businesses that reside in ESA member states.
The aim of this collaboration is to support the development of commercial services leveraging both space and nanotechnologies that could have a positive impact across a wide variety of sectors. Applications can be found in several domains, examples of immediate interest to ESA Space Solutions include Green Buildings, Smart Supply Chains, Decommissioning of Energy Assets, to name a few.
As a means to stay flexible and inclusive for the myriad of possible innovation paths, the ESA Space Solutions program proposes two main ways to apply. There is a permanently Open Call for Proposals through which a tenderer can submit ideas addressing any topic, and there are Competitive Tenders where applicants can apply to ESA’s thematic open competitions (e.g. Agriculture, Construction, Ports of the Future…). ESA Space Solutions support the implementation of feasibility studies, in which the technical and commercial feasibility of a proposed solution is validated, and demonstration projects, in which an MVP (minimum viable product) of the solution is trialed with end-users on-board.
“We are pleased to help ESA in funding and support of innovative solutions combining space and nanotechnologies”, said Marine Le Bouar, CEO of the NWA. “There are numerous researchers, startups, and businesses in our extensive network of contacts that could greatly benefit from this generous and ongoing program provided by ESA.”, she added.
“The collaboration between ESA Space Solutions and NWA will offer the opportunity to showcase the benefits that space and nanotechnologies, two technical domains seemingly far from each other, can together bring to user communities in a number of vertical sectors”, mentioned Rita Rinaldo, Head of Institutional Projects Section, ESA Space Solutions. To learn more about the collaboration, the admissibility criteria and the process to apply, you may visit the NWA website here. About the European Space Agency
The European Space Agency (ESA) provides Europe’s gateway to space. ESA is an intergovernmental organization, created in 1975, with the mission to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space delivers benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
ESA has 22 member states: Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.
ESA Space Solutions is a program within the Telecommunications and Integrated Applications directorate of ESA that is concerned with the applications of space assets (e.g. Satellite Earth Observation, Navigation and Communications) in commercial services with the goal of showing that space has the power to improve our everyday lives on Earth.
Learn more about ESA at www.esa.int, and ESA Space Solutions: Business Applications at https://business.esa.int/ About the Nanotechnology World Association
The Nanotechnology World Association (NWA) was created to help accelerate the adoption of nanotechnologies in various industries, such as medical, energy, electronics, transportation and materials, by providing relevant information, resources and tools, by connecting researchers and organizations, and by fostering knowledge sharing and cooperation.
For more information about the NWA, please visit www.nanotechnologyworld.org.
Contact: Marine Le Bouar CEO marine@nanotechnologyworld.org
+65 3138 4148
