INNOspace Masters
For world-changers and visionaries!
The INNOspace Masters ideas competition – as part of the INNOspace® initiative by the DLR Space Administration – is looking for world-changers with new ideas for the next space generation. Are you a visionary or a team from a research institute? A start-up or an SME? Or you are an industrial company looking for solutions through a new partnership? Then you’ve come to the right place!
Space Moves! is the key motto. The topics for submissions to the INNOspace Masters ideas competition are both the development of innovative space technologies using expertise from other industries and also the application of existing technologies, services and applications from space for everyday life on earth.
Accept the challenge! Each of our partners presents its own challenge to the participants with individual areas of focus according to the development phase within the innovation process. Every idea finds the right challenge at the INNOspace Masters! Each challenge selects a winner at the awards ceremony. Irrespective of the ranking in the challenges, the jury decides on an additional overall winner, who can enjoy being entitled “INNOspace Master”.
Win and take off! The winners of the individual challenges receive individual advice and funding opportunities from our partners. In this way, concepts and ideas lead to actual innovation projects that the winners effectively advance with support of the partners.
Goal of the INNOspace Masters
The space industry is changing!
The number of private actors, the production of payloads and the operation of satellites have multiplied. More and more space developments are being transferred into everyday life. The INNOspace Masters promotes the commercialisation and start-up investment of “spin-in” (from non-space into a space sector) and “spin-off” (from space sectors into non-space) business ideas. These ideas by the winners will be further developed together with the respective partner. Participants are thus active creators of the future and tap into new markets.
Innovative problem solvers wanted.
The INNOspace Masters is the competition for anyone facing the current challenges of the space industry. Through digitisation, automation and increasingly complex systems, the aerospace industry must constantly adapt and seek out new opportunities. Whether alone, in a team or as a company, anyone who wants to develop new technologies and concepts for or from the space industry and bring them to market maturity with the help of partners has come to the right place here. Existing technologies from the space industry can be transferred into other sectors, and approaches from these can be adapted for space.
Benefits for our Winners
Premium Network
Meet renowned partners and experts
Technical Expertise
Profit from individual expert know-how
Technical Expertise
Receive hands-on support to advance your innovation into new dimensions
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Shaping the Future
Use your creativity and initiate new impulses for the next space generation
Who can apply?
SMEs
Institutions
Start-ups
Single Persons
Companies, SMEs, start-ups, research institutions, universities, and teams and individuals of legal age are eligible to participate in the INNOspace Masters. In order to optimally integrate submissions into the competition’s value creation chain according to their maturity, the following restrictions also apply to the DLR and ESA BIC Challenges:
The DLR Challenge is primarily aimed at companies (especially SMEs), universities and non-university research institutions. A registered office in Germany is mandatory.
The ESA BIC Challenge is open to all individuals and teams who aim to set up a company. A registered office or a registration address in Germany is required.
The Airbus and OHB Challenges have no restrictions.
Challenges 2018/2019
Facts and Figures
Since 2015, the INNOspace Masters plays an important role in promoting innovative ideas for the space sector. Its entries cover different levels of maturity along the entire value chain. Submissions include ideas and concepts from foreign industries into space, but also ideas from space into industry. The competition’s prize pool and outstanding partners enable the winners to further their ideas into real innovation projects.
All numbers above are a summary of the INNOspace Masters competitions from 2015 to 2019.
Our partners
Initiated by DLR
Acting on behalf of the Federal Government, the DLR’s Space Administration designs and implements Germany’s Space Programme, which integrates all German space activities on the national and European level. The DLR Space Administration on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has started the INNOspace Masters in 2015 as part of the initiative INNOspace® to promote innovations, technology transfer and new markets.
Organised by AZO
AZO Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen is carrying out the INNOspace Masters on behalf of the DLR. It is an international networking and branding company initiating the most important space-related innovation competitions with more than 15,000 participants, over 200 industrial & public – and 400 international stakeholders.
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