5th EISF meeting: EU Industry and Start-ups Forum on STM discusses future tendering opportunities and SST services

On 15 November 2023, DG DEFIS hosted the 5th meeting of the EU Industry and Start-ups Forum on Space Traffic Management (EISF). DG DEFIS and the EU SST Partnership discussed with more than 190 participants from the EU SSA commercial sector upcoming tendering opportunities for the development of innovative commercial sensors and value chain coordinated by Working Group 2.

As part of the work of Working Group 3 on ‘services’, participants exchanged views on initial ideas on public/basic and commercial/advanced SST services, thereby shaping opportunities for the EU commercial SSA sector to complement existing public SST services provided by the EU SST Partnership and the SST Front Desk at EUSPA. In addition, they brainstormed on a potential European marketplace for SST/STM services, data providers and users, thereby considering ways on how to bring closer together the supply and demand side of EU SST/STM.

Background

The EISF gathers more than 150 members from more than 70 EU companies including start-ups, SMEs, midcaps and major actors. Several Research and Technology Organisations (RTO) established in the EU also participate in the EISF. Together with EU stakeholders, they jointly define research and development priorities which are funded by tendering more than 80% of the available EU SST budget to EU industry.

The EISF helps implement the second avenue on “enhancing EU operational capabilities to support STM” of the Joint Communication on an EU approach to STM.

More information

To learn more about or to join the EISF, check out the EISF one-pager or contact DEFIS-EUSST-INDUSTRYFORUM@ec.europa.eu.

To find out about meetings, go to Space Traffic Management stakeholder mechanism (europa.eu) and navigate to subgroup 2.

To learn about tendering opportunities, check out Procurement – EU SST.