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International Astronautical Congress 2024
SME4SPACE is excited to announce our participation in the 75th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), which will take place from October 14-18, 2024 in Milan, Italy. We will be sharing a booth with the Association of Italian Space Enterprises (AIPAS), a founding member of SME4SPACE. AIPAS currently having 74 members, including […]
Registration is now open for ESA Industry Space Days 2024
Registration is now open for ESA’s Industry Space Days 2024. Join Europe’s largest space innovation B2B meeting event on 18 – 19 September 2024 at ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands).
Digitalisation for commercial space solutions: a joint proposal for the Horizon Europe work programme 2025-2027
The SPACE AISBL (composed of SME4SPACE, Eurospace, ESRE, EASTRO and EASN) is 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 European Partnership is being released.
ESA Calls for Proposals on end-to-end solutions contributing IRIS2
At SME4SPACE we are glad to share with you the following opportunities that in our view are one of the first results of our efforts of the last months in asking both ESA and the European Commission to be compliant with the IRIS2 regulation and to foresee and issue this type of calls.
ESA SME FORUM 2024 – Preparatory Meeting
DESCRIPTION The SME Forum is an annual consultation process organised by the ESA SME Office with the support of SME4SPACE, where Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SME) and their associations are invited to share their views and provide feedback about topics which affect their work with ESA and in the space sector in […]
Job Placement Scheme for SME4SPACE Members
For 2024, SME4SPACE will be responsible to ensure the success and effectiveness of the Job Placement scheme by offering a fixed number of internships through its network of company Members. […]
SME4SPACE POSITION PAPER ON IRIS²
SME4SPACE has published its position on the current status of the IRIS² program. In this position paper, SME4SPACE underlines two of the main principles of the EU Regulation for IRIS2: a guaranteed participation of SMEs and the possibility for SMEs to deliver services directly to end-customers. In case you wish […]
Webinar on Legal Aspects of the Consortium Management of ESA Projects
The Webinar will be held by SME4SPACE Chairman, Hans Bracquené, who is a legal counsel with extensive experience in legal aspects of ESA contracts and consortium management.
New release: “ESA Handbook on Engineering Guidelines for CubeSat Propulsion”
Rosario Pavone, SME4SPACE Secretary, presented with Davina Di Cara, Electric Propulsion Engineer at ESA, the “𝗘𝗦𝗔 𝗛𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗯𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝘂𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗖𝘂𝗯𝗲𝗦𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽𝘂𝗹𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻” at the 6th ESA CubeSat Industry Days in Leiden, The Netherlands. The handbook, a collaborative effort involving stakeholders across the supply chain, will serve as guidelines for […]
Critical Space Technologies for European Strategic Non Dependence – JTF (EC, ESA, EDA)
The Joint Task Force (EC, ESA, and EDA) has initiated a new process to gather input from the industry regarding Critical Space Technologies for European Strategic Non-Dependence. The objective is to compile a new list of urgent actions […]
