Go2Space HUBs

The objective of the EU-funded Go2Space-HUBs project is to secure the creation and up-scaling of European businesses, offering technology and services in and from the space sector, ensuring value creation and innovation through cross-fertilisation, training, and locally owned and driven networks and initiatives that connect effectively with existing EU initiatives. This will be achieved through the creation of 3 new Space hubs in Coimbra, Madrid and Tallinn strengthening local entrepreneurship/ business ecosystems & networks.

The project includes a range of new local initiatives for entrepreneurs, start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs, building bridges to EU activities, and designed to secure the creation of new start-ups & to help start-ups and scale-ups grow.

• Incubation of 20 entrepreneurs/early stage start-ups
• Acceleration of 20 established start-ups/scale-up
• Demo-Days to present their solutions to Investors and partners
• Innovations Days
• B2B events to facilitate spinning-in/-out
• Organization of 3 Hackathons
• Joint-applications to the Copernicus incubator
• An “Up-scaling engine” to help a range of local scale-ups and SMEs secure more efficient growth, introduction to existing space recourses
• Identifications of barriers to investments in space
• Targeted training on access to private and public finance & Final Investment & Partnering event with participants from all the 3 HUBs.

The consortium includes six partners from five different European countries (Belgium, Estonia, Poland, Portugal and Spain) that represent key players in the local and regional start-up ecosystem.

• Universidad Carlos III de Madrid – Spain
• Madrid Aerospace Cluster – Spain
• Technology Partners – Poland
• Instituto Pedro Nunes – Portugal
• Europe Unlimited – Belgium
• Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol – Estonia