Subscribe to our newsletter to not miss out on the latest news, events and information.
With subscribing you accept the privacy policy.
For world-changers and visionaries!
The INNOspace Masters innovation competition – as part of the INNOspace® initiative by the German Space Agency at DLR – is looking for world-changers with new ideas for the next space generation. Are you a visionary or a team from a research institute? A start-up or an SME? Or you are an industrial company looking for solutions through a new partnership? Then you’ve come to the right place!
“Sustainable and Efficient Innovations for Space and Earth” is the new motto. The INNOspace Masters supports innovations for a sustainable future space sector, while at the same time promoting the application of existing technologies, services and applications from space for making life on Earth more sustainable.
The challenge: Each of our partners presents its own challenge to the participants with individual areas of focus according to the development phase within the innovation process. Every idea finds the right challenge at the INNOspace Masters! Each challenge selects a winner at the awards ceremony. Irrespective of the ranking in the challenges, the jury decides on an additional overall winner, who can enjoy being entitled “INNOspace Master”.
The winners of the individual challenges receive individual advice and funding opportunities from our partners. In this way, concepts and ideas lead to actual innovation projects that the winners effectively advance with support of the partners.
The space industry is changing!
The number of private actors, the production of payloads and the operation of satellites have multiplied. More and more space developments are being transferred into everyday life. The INNOspace Masters promotes new business ideas, the commercialisation and the initiation of “spin-in”- (from non-space into a space sector) and “spin-off”- (from space sectors into non-space) ideas. These ideas by the winners will be further developed together with the respective partner. Participants are thus active creators of the future and tap into new markets.
Innovative problem solvers wanted.
The INNOspace Masters is the competition for anyone facing the current challenges of the space industry. Through digitisation, automation and increasingly complex systems, the aerospace industry must constantly adapt and seek out new opportunities. Whether alone, in a team or as a company, anyone who wants to develop new technologies and concepts for or from the space industry and bring them to market maturity with the help of partners has come to the right place here. Existing technologies from the space industry can be transferred into other sectors, and approaches from these can be adapted for space.
Companies, SMEs, start-ups, research institutions, universities, and teams and individuals of legal age are eligible to participate in the INNOspace Masters. In order to optimally integrate submissions into the competition’s value creation chain according to their maturity, the following restrictions also apply to the DLR and ESA BIC Challenges:
The DLR Challenge is primarily aimed at companies (especially SMEs), universities and non-university research institutions. A registered office in Germany is mandatory.
The ESA BIC Challenge is open to all individuals and teams who aim to set up a company. A registered office or a registration address in Germany is required.
The Airbus, OHB and Mercedes-Benz Challenges have no restrictions.
Prize Pool
Project Ideas
Submissions from 2015 – 2021
International Experts
All numbers above are a summary of the INNOspace Masters competitions from 2015 to 2021.
Acting on behalf of the Federal Government, the German Space Agency at DLR designs and implements Germany’s Space Programme, which integrates all German space activities on the national and European level. The German Space Agency at DLR on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has started the INNOspace Masters in 2015 as part of the initiative INNOspace® to promote innovations, technology transfer and new markets.
AZO Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen is carrying out the INNOspace Masters on behalf of the German Space Agency at DLR. It is an international networking and branding company initiating the most important space-related innovation competitions with more than 15,000 participants, over 200 industrial & public – and 400 international stakeholders.
Get the News
© All rights reserved
Please accept cookies and tracking on this site for the best experience.
If you deny the use of cookies and tracking on this site, we will save that in a necessary cookie. You will lose access to personalised content and may not have the best experience on this website.
Please see our Privacy Policy for detailed information on how we process your personal data. You can withdraw your consent at any time and demand information about your data as well as the correction, access to or deletion of it.
To protect your privacy, we block cookies and tracking scripts until you consent with the usage.
We use cookies and tracking scripts to offer additional functions, to provide social media features and to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.
You are able to change or withdraw your consent anytime.
About Cookies
Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user’s experience more efficient.
The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission. This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.
Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us and how we process personal data in our Privacy Policy.
Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. Also, your consent with or denial of additional cookies and tracking scripts is stored in a necessary cookie.
The website cannot function properly without these cookies.
Marketing cookies are used for personalisation and tracking users across websites and devices. These cookies help us to display relevant content and ads for the individual user.
Marketing services used on this site:
On this site, we use cookies from:
Tracking cookies help us to better understand the behaviour of our visitors. We track your interaction on this and across other websites and devices to improve the user’s experience on our site.
Tracking services used on this site:
Please choose:
Deny?
If you deny, we will save this information in a necessary cookie and accept your wish.