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Welcome to the
INNOspace Masters 2025
Energise Our Future –
Cross-Industry Innovations
Linking Earth and Space
Cross-Industry Innovations
Linking Earth and Space
INNOspace Masters 2025
What is it about?
INNOspace Masters is the international innovation competition organised by the German Space Agency at DLR in cooperation with ESA, Airbus and OHB. Launched in 2015, it is open to companies of all sizes, start-ups, research institutions and universities, as well as individuals from all over the world.
The competition promotes ideas for the transfer of technology and expertise from other industries to the space sector (spin-ins/New Space) or from space to non-space sectors (spin-offs).
The overall theme for the 2025 round of the competition is:
Energise Our Future – Cross-Industry Innovations Linking Earth and Space
Under this overall theme, the competition offers five different challenges for you to participate in.
Submit your idea now via our secure online database. Submission is open until 24 March 2025.
What are the rewards and benefits?
Winners of the INNOspace Masters 2025 challenges will embark on a tailored journey to turn their idea into a real innovation project or business by
- gaining direct access to capital and funding,
- receiving support from research and market specialists,
- obtaining the chance to co-innovate with world market leaders,
- and getting access to premium research and industry networks
to shape the future of space in Germany and Europe!
See how far former winners of INNOspace Masters have already come on their journey, e.g. SilentRunning, DCUBED, OKAPI:Orbits
Challenges and partners
- German Space Agency at DLR Challenge: “Igniting Applied Research for Cross-Industry Innovations”
- ESA BIC Challenge: “Join the New Space Economy”
- ESA BA Challenge: “Accelerating Energy Innovation through Space Solutions”
- Airbus Challenge: “Boosting Earth-Space Industry Partnerships”
- OHB Challenge: “Design the End-to-End Space Solutions of the Future”
Submit your idea now via our secure online database. Submission is open until 24 March 2025.
Timeline
Here are the most important dates for you if you are taking part in one of our challenges. The ESA BIC Challenge has a slightly different Evaluation Phase, with a shortened initial evaluation and an additional coaching phase.
INNOspace Masters 2024
Enjoy our short teaser video of the 2024 winners’ journey so far, which kicked off our Final Event on 9 October in Berlin.
