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Space Academies

Space Academies are two-day events and related services for 
​space-tech entrepreneurs to accelerate their business
  • Paris
  • Cork
  • Rome
  • Bremen
  • Helsinki
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Hosted by SpaceUp partner IASP, the Space Academy will take place on the 8th-9th of March and will be embedded into Paris Space Week which is a fully hybrid event, with options to participate in person or online. Applications were open until 21st January and registrations for open workshops will begin soon.
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The fourth Space Academy that was planned be held in Cork, Ireland on the 12-14th June 2020 has been postponed to 16th - 18th June 2021 due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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For any queries about this event, please contact info@space-academy.eu
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​The Rome Space Academy was held on 9-10 December 2020. As the proposed Space Academy in Seville has had to be cancelled the Space Academy Rome was bigger and better!
 The Rome Space Academy was jointly hosted and organised by Hypatia and IASP and hosted by Fondazione E. Amaldi. The event was back-to-back with the New Space Economy Forum. 
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​The second SpaceUp event was held on the 18-19 November 2019 in Bremen, Germany, in collaboration with the Space Tech Expo.

​Thank you to all participants!

For more information about this event see here
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​The first SpaceUp event was held on 3-4 June 2019 in Helsinki, Finland, ​integrated with the EBAN Annual Congress.

​Thank you to all participants!

For more information about this event see here.​
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Our Space Academies

What to expect

Over the two days prominent experts will cover topics such as:
Investment readiness, Crowdfunding,
Hot trends in artificial intelligence and robotics,
Business models, European funding for young SMEs, 
​European Space ecosystem

For each Space Academy 10 selected start-ups will be provided FREE personalised services from SpaceUp experts, prior to and during the event.  Feasibility studies, one-to-one talks, travel funding and more!
Upcoming Space Academies:

8-9 March 2021 - Paris, France
16-18 June 2021 - Cork, Ireland


How to participate

When a Call for a Space Academy (and related services) is open, you can apply via this website.

Sign-up to the newsletter to make sure you are kept updated with the latest news and updates on deadlines for the Space Academies.
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SpaceUp will organise 6 Space Academies throughout Europe in 2019-2021, in Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, and France.

For any specific queries please contact info@space-academy.eu

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Benefits​

All entrepreneurs are welcome to join the Space Academy workshops and get coached in small groups during the first day on six great topics by prominent experts:
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  • Investment readiness and relationships, how to be trusted by investors and get funded;
  • Kinds of crowdfunding (reward-based, equity-based, lending), how to maximize your impact with the right campaign;
  • Hot trends, artificial intelligence and robotic, how new advanced technologies can shape your business;
  • Business models, how to fine tune your business and make it even more effective;
  • European funds, how to find the right funding opportunity in the ocean of the European initiatives;
  • Space ecosystem, how to connect with international space institutions and corporates, and apply to ESA Invitation to Tender (ESA ITT).

In addition to all applicants who can attend both days and get ample chances for broad networking, 10 selected companies will be entitled to receive certain individual high-level services for free (including contact and advice with experts in the months prior to the Space Academy):
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  • One-to-one meetings with investors and matter experts;
  • Credit Passport (International creditworthiness certificate);
  • Feasibility study on EU public funding;
  • Business model analysis;
  • Management and human resources analysis;
  • Intellectual property right analysis.

Get funded

10 selected most advanced companies will be entitled to receive funding
​and certain individual high-level services for free. 
Who can apply for the high-level services

  • Companies post seed stage now looking for investment in either a pre-Series A (possibly angels/corporates), or a VC Series A round (companies must be post friends and family and have already received seed investment from accredited investors)
  • Strong team and established business now scaling
  • Only European companies, that were incorporated no later than 5 years ago (exceptions made for companies in certain industries)
  • Companies adopting at least one space technology and/or working with Copernicus/Galileo or EGNOS data as their basis
 
What is offered to the 10 selected companies
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  • Up to €400 reimbursement for eligible travel and hotel costs
  • High level customized business services and one-to-one meetings with experts
  • 3-minute pitching slot, in front of investors: the space-tech and downstream application communities
  • Access to EEN brokerage networking (special registration and upload of profile/offers mandatory)
  • Access to all other workshops and sessions of the SpaceTechExpo
  • Visibility through SpaceUp newsletters, bulletins, in Space Academy programme and videos before and after the event

(Regardless of being awarded funding, all relevant start-ups are welcome to apply to participate in the event and benefit from the networking opportunities and knowledge available)

Selection Process

All applicants will go through a first pre-selection process aimed at identifying a maximum total of  30 companies that also fit best the criteria used by the Evaluation Committee. In this phase four independent experts from EBAN, Hypatia and 200 Crowd and also part of the SpaceUp team
will screen the companies, with particular emphasis on:
  • Company’s status
  • Stage of the product/service
  • Market strategy

Then, the 30 pre-selected companies will be evaluated by the SpaceUp Evaluation Committee, composed of six experts from:
  • EBAN
  • Fraunhofer
  • Hypatia
  • IBS
  • BIC Lazio
  • AviaSpace Bremen

The SpaceUp Evaluation Commitee will use the following criteria to score the applications, taking into account the use of other European data and services such as Galileo, Copernicus and EGNOS:
         1. Value proposition / Business idea
         2. Market positioning and market potential
         
3. Business scalability
         4. Financial status &amp; business planning
         5. Investment approach
         6. Strategic relationships and partnerships
         7. Team
         8. Technical expertise

Each company will receive a score from 0 (low) to 10 (high) for each of the eight criteria from each expert of the SpaceUp Evaluation Committee. The final score on each criteria will be thus obtained as average of all the scores given by each one of the experts composing the Evaluation
Committee. These average scores will be used to calculate the final sum of all scores.  The 10 selected companies will be those with the highest score. All 30 pre-selected companies will receive the evaluation report.
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement NO 776356

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