More than 100 participants from 24 countries attended the open training sessions and use cases that took place the week before the competition.

The award consists of resources valued at 6,000€ and access to the Go2Space-HUBs Acceleration Program.

The increasing use of Earth Observation data, as well as the good prospects for public funding planned for projects of this type, offer new business opportunities.

The European Union Earth Observation Program, Copernicus, offers information services based on data from satellites through platforms called DIAS that are free and open access.

In this context, last February, the European Go2Space-HUBs project, the Spanish multinational Sacyr and the DIAS Platforms, joined their forces in the search for potential uses of Earth Observation data through the celebration of #Go2SpaceHackathon.

More than 100 participants from 24 countries attended the open training sessions with experts from each of the platforms: Creodias, Sobloo, Onda Dias, Mundi Web Services and Wekeo, the week before the competition.

Two teams have been the ex aequo winners of this Hackathon: The Dubhe team, made up of Igor Casrvalho Ramos, Yashita Saxena and Eugenio Arellano, and the S2IC team made up of Alessandra Porfido, Alan Whiteside, Adrián Pérez and Noelia Flores.

The solution developed by Team Dubhe solves the problem of data from different sources in air pollution. Collecting data through specific ground-based measurements at hot spots or through low-resolution data from satellites and their utility is not only time-consuming, but also very complex for the end user.

Its proposal consists of a simple platform that, by cross-referencing terrestrial and satellite data with machine learning algorithms, shows and allows predicting the dispersion of air pollution. In addition to offering the data on maps with gas concentration and dispersion predictions, it also provides guidance on what is the best action to take and why.

For its part, the solution proposed by the S2IC Team consists of providing high-quality reports and geolocated data that facilitate the internationalization of companies. And, despite the fact that, nowadays, a wide range of information is available, for developing countries the data is scarce and unreliable.

This platform will provide useful information that will help to make more conscious decisions. Space technology, specifically Earth Observation, will not only fill the data availability gap, but will also improve its quality.

The award consists of resources valued at 6,000€ and allows access to the Go2Space-HUBs Acceleration Program.

Congratulations to both teams!

To celebrate the International Day of Women & Girls in Science, Go2Space-HUBs haa interviewed four of the participants in the HUB Coimbra’s Incubation Program:

• Inês Moreira from Staruplo
• Ana Silva from Space4agro
• Helena Calado from Ambrosio+
• Belen Andrés from Teraqua Space

You can find the videos below:

We are looking for 10 established start-ups/scale-ups for acceleration.

Cut dates: 5 February and 5 March, 2021

The 2nd edition of the Go2Space-HUBs Acceleration Program is open. It is targeted at start-ups and scale-ups that work in the Space Sector, in the following thematic areas:

• ‘Space-related projects for a digitalized Europe’ (e.g. big data, IoT, smart cities, smart transport)
• ‘Space-related projects and applications to solve the Sustainable Development Goals’ (e.g. low carbon future, social impact)
• ‘Space-related projects in Defence & Security’ (e.g. cyber, military, big data, fintech)
• ‘Spacetech Excellence’ (space upstream & downstream sector)

Ten selected companies will be involved in an intensive three-month acceleration program of online training and individual mentoring.

Moreover, the participants will attend networking activities with experts from government, industry, research and investment sectors, and participate in events on the space sector, where they will present their solutions to potential investors and find strategic partners to grow their business globally.

A high impact program based in the HUB Madrid (Spain) at UC3M Science Park, where participants will receive, during three months, extensive online training and individualized mentoring in market and investment readiness, reinforcing technology base and reviewing operations management. It will also include sessions for the knowledge, management and data processing of the Earth observation platform DIAS Environment, on European financing programs, including the SME Instrument that finances innovative projects and on the Technology Portfolio of the European Space Agency (ESA).

Some figures of the First Edition:

• 40 hours of training
• More than 10 trainers
• Individualized and specific Mentoring
• 6 International Events

Meet some of the participants in the 1st edition here

Meet some of our mentors here

Go2Space-HUBS: The support and guidance you need to get your start-up/scale-up to the next level!

Two of the participants in our Acceleration Program have been selected for the Venture Academies (Tech Tour Space Investment Programme), with live feedback from investors and experts about their business model and presentation skills to help them to get ready to pitch in front of investors and better communicate their value proposition.

They will also participate in an investor pitching event with a dedicated slot to present their value proposition and investment need to the audience and pre-arranged one2one meetings with investors.

These companies are:

• Geko Navsat
• Space Sur

You can see the programme of the pitching sessions here

The Tech Tour Space Investment Programme is designed to help European start-ups developing tech solutions in the Space sector or developing applications based on satellite data to boost their investment readiness and build relations with investors.

The Tech Tour Space Investment programme is organised by Tech Tour, in collaboration with acceleration and incubation programmes such as Go2Space-Hubs, Point.IoT, the Copernicus accelerator.