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Leaflet on the Economic Importance and Financial Strength of SMEs in the European Space Industry – 2023
Since 2021, SME4SPACE, the representative organisation of SMEs in Europe’s space industry, in collaboration with KU Leuven and the ESA SME Office, has been examining the economic performance and financial health of SMEs in the European space sector, focusing on over 1700 firms. These firms include recipients of funding from […]
SME4SPACE has submitted to join ESA’s Zero Debris Charter
SME4SPACE has submitted to join ESA’s Zero Debris Chapter. We are proud to be part of this essential effort that provides a shared vision towards safe and sustainable space activities. We encourage all interested entities to join and register their intent to sign the Charter. The Link ESA’s Zero Debris […]
SMEs with small satellite activities are invited to participate in ESA Networking Day in ESEC
ESA is inviting companies with Small Satellite activities to participate in a full day Networking event that will bring together industry, ESA VIPs and local space ecosystem from Belgium and Luxembourg into close contact with 100 soon-to-be graduating students who would have participated at ESA’s CubeSat Summer School 2024. SMEs […]
SME4SPACE at Space Tech Expo 2024 in Bremen
SME4SPACE will participate once again in this year’s Space Tech Expo Europe in Breme (Germany), a key event in the aerospace industry calendar. We will be sharing a booth with our German colleagues from ‘Arbeitskreis Raumfahrt KMU (AKRK)’, a workgroup of German SMEs active in the space sector. More details […]
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).
2024 edition of the SME + Midcap Days and SME Forum
The 2nd edition of the SME + Midcap Days, including the SME Forum, will take place at ESA Headquarters in Paris on 8–9 April 2024. SMEs from ESA Member States, Associate States and Cooperating States are now invited to register to attend the in-person event […]
Annual Plan 2024
Below you may find the SME4SPACE Annual Plan for 2024 that provides a comprehensive overview of our past efforts and outlines the planned activities for the upcoming year. It includes a detailed summary of each activity and the relevant links for further engagement. The SME4SPACE Annual Plan 2024 is structured […]
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 […]
