Horizon 2020 Space Programme ready to launch
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Horizon 2020 is the European Union’s next programme for research and innovation with a focus on securing Europe’s global competitiveness. This major initiative will run from 2014 to 2020 and has a total budget of over €70 billion. Space, and Galileo in particular, form a significant part of Horizon 2020 and the draft work programme for the initial two years of the programme has just been published.
The motto for EU Space R&D under Horizon 2020 is ‘Prepare for the increasing role of space in the future and reap the benefits of space now’.
A recently published draft work programme for 2014 and 2015 in the space sector includes the call for Applications in Satellite Navigation-Galileo 2014-2015 that consists of the following topics:
- European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) applications
- Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) based EGNSS applications
- Releasing the potential of EGNSS applications through international cooperation
- EGNSS awareness raising, capacity building and/or promotion activities, inside or outside of the European Union
Challenge focus
The full work programme in space has been developed to address the following objectives:
- To prioritise the existing two EU Space flagships of European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) and Earth Observation, reaping the benefits they can generate in the coming years and ensuring their state-of-the-art status in the future
- To ensure support for the protection of space infrastructure and, in particular, the setting up of a Space Surveillance and Tracking system (SST) at European level
- To ensure support to EU industry to meet the objectives defined in the Commission communication on Space Industrial Policy, notably to maintain and enhance industry’s competitiveness and its value-chain in the global market
- To ensure that Europe’s investments made in space infrastructure are exploited to the benefit of citizens, as well as supporting European space science
- To enhance Europe’s standing as an attractive partner for international partnerships in space science and exploration
Space research is supported in Horizon 2020 under the heading "Industrial Leadership", in line with the objective of fostering a cost-effective competitive and innovative space industry and research community that can develop and exploit space infrastructure to meet future European Union policy and societal needs.
Horizon 2020 first calls will be launched on the 11th of December.
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