ESA Business Incubation Centres (ESA BIC)
European Space Agency (ESA)
Europe's largest network of space-startup incubators: founders using space technology or data, or building for the space sector, get up to two years of incubation, ESA technical support, coaching, IP advice and €50k equity-free funding. Each centre runs its own calls.
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About
What it offers: €50k equity-free funding for product and IP development.
Also: up to two years of incubation at an ESA BIC of your choice; technical support from ESA and regional experts; business coaching, legal and IPR advice; fundraising guidance.
Who can apply: Entrepreneurs with applications using space-based systems (satellite navigation, Earth observation, satcom), space technologies in non-space domains, or products for the space sector; apply to a specific ESA BIC in Europe, each with its own documents and cut-off dates.
Ongoing network; each ESA BIC publishes its own application documents and cut-off dates on its local website.
How to apply: through the organiser's own application portal.
What to prepare: online application.
From the official page (checked 2026-10-31): “ESA BICs are the largest network of incubators supporting space related start-ups in Europe”
Who can apply
- Open to founders
- Entrepreneurs with applications using space-based systems (satellite navigation, Earth observation, satcom), space technologies in non-space domains, or products for the space sector; apply to a specific ESA BIC in Europe, each with its own documents and cut-off dates.
What you will need
- Application form answersOnward Scout drafts it from your sourced profile; you approve every line.
How to apply
Applications go through the official page (own portal).
How Onward Scout helps
This one is submitted on the organiser's own site, behind your login. Onward Scout prepares every answer and file in the form's order with one-tap copy, so submitting takes minutes; you mark it submitted when you're done.
Every answer is drafted from your own documents and cites where each fact came from; anything we can’t source is flagged for you, never invented.
Let Onward Scout prepare this application
Get a pitch deck and a one-pager for this programme, drafted from what you already have in about two minutes. Free to start, no account needed: you look at the draft first, and nothing goes to European Space Agency (ESA) without your tap.
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