Ambassador Platforms

On 19th January 2016, ESA in collaboration with the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN, UK) held a Workshop on Satellite Applications for Waste Management at ECSAT in Harwell. The purpose of the Workshop was to gather insight into the processes of the Waste Management industry, to identify the relevant challenge areas and to derive first hand User Requirements.

This call is aimed at business incubation centres who wish to support start-up companies across the breadth of the space sector. The aim is to extend the network of business incubators supporting space companies across the UK, deliver an effective national capacity for space company incubation and ensure shared best practice.

At a recent event held in Glasgow, ESA's new Ambassador Platform for Offshore Energy (AP-OE) was launched. The new AP is targetting a sector where space applications can drive down cost, provide better oversight, and improve safety and environmental protection.

A workshop dedicated to exploring the potential of satellite farming as a cloud service was recently held at the Agricultural Data Processing Centre (MLOY) in Vantaa, Finland, under the auspices of AP Finland. 

ESA and Ambassador Platform for Portugal, managed by IPN, invite the space and non-space communities to attend a workshop dedicated to ARTES Applications opportunities, with specific attention for ESA's new Megaconstellations Workplan and ARTES funding schemes.

A joint undertaking between ESA and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has determined that space-based services have tremendous potential in the FEMIP region in vital economic sectors such as water-management, transport and logistics, as well as energy and renewables.

The Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult will host European Space Agency (ESA) Ambassadors for its Integrated Application Programme (IAP) as part of an opportunity to identify and facilitate offshore energy needs that can be fulfilled and supported by space assets.

The aim of the workshop is to present currently available satellite multicasting technologies and assets to the transport sector, explore applications and business models for use of these assets and identify technical and commercial challenges that must be overcome to exploit multicasting technology in the transport sector.

The Call is open to the Portuguese space and non-space industry and academia and newcomers to space applications or downstreaming.

The seminar discusses new potential applications and business ideas. It serves as a networking platform to establish new contacts and build advanced consortiums. The programme focuses on three areas; industrial internet, location data and intelligent transport.