CASSINI Challenges competition is open

The 2026 CASSINI Challenges competition seeks innovative, space-based solutions and ideas that can help solve some of today’s most pressing issues, offering winners a EUR 100,000 prize each. The EU Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), together with the European Commission, launched the CASSINI Challenges 2026. The annual competition aims to promote the use of space technologies to address pressing commercial, social and environmental challenges. By pairing creators with space technologies, we aim to inspire innovation, cultivate ideas and deliver solutions that will ultimately benefit citizens and businesses alike.  Rodrigo da Costa, EUSPA Executive Director This year’s edition features one track, awarding 12 winners EUR 100, 000 each. By awarding more funding to fewer solutions, the objective is to ensure that each selected project has the strongest possible potential to become a commercial success story. All applicants are required to identify a commercial, social or environmental challenge and then submit an innovative, space-based solution that can help solve it. Solutions must make use of the EU Space Programme, including satellite navigation (EGNOS, Galileo), Earth...