To identify disruptive space innovations

The Swiss Space Office of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation of the Swiss Confederation (SERI/SSO) is initiating the second Call for Ideas to foster low Technology Readiness Level (TRL) research and development studies related to space activities. The SERI/SSO has entrusted the Swiss Space Center (SSC) to implement this Call for Ideas.

Issued for the second time after 2013, the main objectives of this Call for Ideas are to foster and promote Swiss technological and scientific competences that have a clear potential for space products and services/applications. More particularly, this Call for Ideas aims:

• to foster the development of novel ideas and disruptive concepts related to the space sector;
• to trigger the interest of new entities, encouraging them to enter the space market and evaluate the potential of their proposed technology;
• to better position Swiss academia and industry with regard to future European and global activities
• to support the development of novel technologies and services for future space science and technology applications.

Both the development of new space technologies and of new services related to space may be proposed.

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