GALAXIA

Space Innovation

Start a business using space technology.🚀

Get funding and access to the European space network.

Who is it for ?

Are you an entrepreneur planning to build a business using knowledge or technology initially developed for space ?

Or are you willing to apply to space the product or know-how initially developed within terrestrial applications ?

We are here to support you !

Your Space connexion : using Space technology for general non-space industrial/scientific/commercial use (spin-off) or non-space technology for proposing products and services for the space sector (spin-in).

What’s in it ?

1) Incentive funding – up to €50k (€25k from ESA and €25k from GALAXIA Space Innovation) – for the development of products, prototypes software and IPR (no direct labor costs) in addition to the incubator seed.

2) Support (up to 80h)

Technical
Business development (workshops, trainings, coaches)
IP Consulting
Financial administration

3) Access

ESA and incubator’s networks (coaches, experts, suppliers, VCs) and facilities
ESA BIC community
ESTEC – ESA biggest R&D facility
International events

Galaxia Space Innovation - ESA Space Solutions

📢 The call for incubates runs all year long

with 2 evaluations per year 📢

What about the Criteria ?

1) Applicants Criteria

Operating headquarters located in the Walloon Region
Start-up under 5 years old
Connection with the Space
Incorporation

2) Selection Criteria

Degree of innovation
Identification of customer needs and segments
Business model: draft level
The team
Team openness to coaching
Short-term financial plan and market opportunity

How to Apply ?

Application Process

As part of the selection procedure for candidates for GALAXIA Space Innovations incubation, start-ups must provide a word or pdf document containing :

team description and legal information about the company
a summary of the project and its business model
a competitive analysis
information on the market
an analysis of needs in terms of support and incubation
description of the project agenda and work-package over 12 or 24 months depending on the needs.
financial table – Milestones covered by the €50k of the incubation.
after selection by the regional incubator, start-ups will be invited to apply to Spacesolutions.be (bic@spacesolutions.be).

For your application, please use the documents below !

📧 Send it to us at : emilie.bourlard@idelux.be

Files to Download ?

ESA BIC Open Call - Belgium - Template I : Requirement checklist + executive summary

ESA BIC Open Call - Belgium - Template II : Business plan

ESA BIC Open Call - Belgium - Template III : Incubation proposal

ESA BIC Open Call - Belgium - Draft incubation contract (for information)

📢 The call for incubates runs all year long

with 2 evaluations per year 📢

What about the Consortium ?

IDELUX Développement is the one-stop business window for any investor who wants to set up in Belgian Luxembourg and develop their activity there (space for entrepreneurship, innovation advice, networking, search for partners, financing, etc.).

Competitiveness cluster of the aeronautics and space sector bringing together companies, training centers and public and private research units in order to generate synergies around common and innovative projects while creating and maintaining jobs in Walloon companies. Based in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium).

Walloon engineering sciences incubator (space applications, nano / micro-systems, software engineering) which supports project leaders in the creation of their company, its start-up and its first years of growth. Based in Seraing (Belgium).

The Liège Space Center (CSL) is an institute recognized by ESA for space instrumentation, technological research and tests in extreme conditions encountered in space, with unique capabilities in optics and thermal regulation, including cryogenics. The CSL is also involved in numerous technology transfer projects for applications in sectors such as medical or environmental protection. Based in Liège (Belgium).

⬇️ Here are the incubated start-up ! ⬇️