Digitalisation for Commercial Space solutions – a joint proposal for the Horizon Europe work programme
Eurospace and its four partner associations are thrilled to announce that after months working with supply chain stakeholders on the identification of key challenges for the European space competitiveness, a preliminary plan for the Globally Competitive Space Systems co-programmed partnership is being released.
The Globally Competitive Space Systems partnership is about to be launched in 2024, with up to 100 Millions € budget for R&I and a short window of operations, targeting the calls 2025, 2026 and 2027 of the Horizon Europe work programme.
In light of the challenging calendar and budgetary environment, the partners propose to focus the efforts of what is hopefully only the first phase of the partnership (as implemented in Horizon Europe) on activities pursuing the following objectives:
- Address up to date challenges for commercial space solutions
- Achieve synergetic developments across the areas covered by the partnership scope
- Promote high yield, low risk, short timeline developments and deployments
- Target rapid deployment towards high TRL and demonstration activities
- Promote the involvement of all partners, large and small, institutes and corporate entities, demonstrated our capacity to work together at European scale
- Enable a scalable building blocks approach, towards a ready-to-bid status (possibly through demonstration missions) for commercial markets in the medium term.
With these objectives in mind, the partners propose to focus the first three years of the partnership on cohesive activities in the domain of digital developments under the grand heading of Digitalisation for Commercial Space solutions.
The proposal prepared by the five associations for implementation in Horizon Europe is composed of:
- A framing document, that presents the rationale, objectives and development goals to be achieved within the 2025-2027 timeframe
- A recommendation to apply the specific objectives to the work programme of 2025
We invite all stakeholders to take stock of these proposals.
Now the process is in the hands of the European Commission and the Horizon Europe Programme Committee, we are confident that the proposals elaborated by the supply chain will be considered for the elaboration of the 2025 workprogramme.
About the five associations backing this proposal: