Competition in the Field Innovation and the Chance to Win Many Valuable Prizes Worth EUR 856,700

The Galileo Masters 2021 Program is pleased to offer the opportunity to participate in a global competition for all innovators. With this competition, the organizer intends to gather ideas/solutions for commercial applications of satellite navigation and promote individual ideas by offering prizes. This gives you the chance to choose the preferred Challenge field and take your business to the best level.

If you win in one of the challenges, you will have: 

Awards for ESA Space Solutions Scale-Up Challenge

• EUR 10,000 cash prize.
• Scale-up Consultation.
• ESA Investor Forum 2022.

Awards for Next-Level Navigation: Autonomy, Hi-Accuracy, Security & Safety

• EUR 5,000.
• 5 Man-Months Voucher for DLR Services.

Awards for Galileo Living Lab

• Market access support from scientific and professional experts.
• Technology and Product Validation.
• Incubation Support Package tailored to their needs, product development stage, and roadmap.
• Space Awards: a free trip to the Awards Ceremony 2021.

Awards for University Challenge From the Lecture Hall to the Board Room

• 1ST place:
• EUR 1,000.
• Incubation with Alpha Build in Munich.
• 2nd place:
• Company-building workshops.
• 3rd place:
• Advisory workshop.

Awards for other challenges

• Cash prize worth EUR 10,000

Additional Rewards for the Overall Winner 2021

• Extra EUR 10,000 cash prize
• Chance to win one of six tailored Galileo Incubation prizes worth up to EUR 62,000 each.

You should follow these criteria:

1. Enterprises, scientific institutions, and individuals of legal adult age are entitled to participate.
2. Applications will be accepted from anywhere in the world, except for the Galileo Masters GSA Challenges and the Galileo Prizes. 
3. You must be a natural or a legal person of an EU Member State or EEA, ENP, South/East countries, or other countries with which the EU has space dialogues and cooperation: USA, Canada, Latin America, Africa, Gulf Cooperation Countries, Japan, Korea, Australia.
4. You must choose from Galileo Masters Challenge, the selection is mandatory.

Galileo Masters Challenges:

EUSPA SatCom Challenge

• It is looking for innovative applications using satellite communication.

EUSPA Space for Fun Challenge

• It is looking for new solutions using space data from Galileo and EGNOS for the gaming, sports, leisure, and tourism markets.

ESA Space Solutions Scale-Up Challenge

• It is looking for high-potential start-ups with products/services based upon Galileo that are primed to enter the scale-up phase

Next-Level Navigation: Autonomy, Hi-Accuracy, Cyber Security & Safety

• This challenge is looking for solutions that offer maximum benefit to the user community by triggering new applications and solutions to meet the needs of the real world for automated or autonomous systems. 

Galileo Living Lab Prize

• It is looking for developers and users to submit proposals for GNSS-related products and services that are ready to be tested and ideally implemented in a suitable Living Lab.

EUSPA Space for Being Safe & Healthy Challenge

• It is looking for solutions using downstream space data as key enablers to develop innovative applications to secure safety and health in times of pandemics.

University Challenge From the Lecture Hall to the Board Room

• The Galileo Masters University Challenge addresses students and research associates with a background in aerospace, in particular with the aim of fostering the transformation of bright ideas into commercial ventures.

Evaluation Criteria:

1. Innovation.
2. Relevance.
3. Market potential.
4. Benefit.

About Galileo Masters:

The Galileo Masters is the global innovation competition scouting for cutting-edge solutions using satellite navigation data. From April onwards, with the support of the global space network of more than 89 partners, it is looking for the best GNSS solutions and business cases in the field of e.g. agriculture, healthcare, cybersecurity, environment.

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