Key Features
ESA seek proposals for feasibility studies for space-based solutions and services to enhance transparency, sustainability and resilience across the cotton value chain and wider textile industry.
Programme: ESA
Award: Share of up to £200,000
Opens: 27th Jan 2025
Closes: 23rd Feb 2025
This European Space Agency call invites proposals for feasibility studies for space-based solutions and services to enhance transparency, sustainability and resilience across the cotton value chain and wider textile industry. Solutions should address environmental costs of current agricultural practices, identify opportunities to improve livelihoods of farmers and support the creation or restoration of protected areas.
ESA will hold a webinar on 22 January 2025 at 10am UK time (11am CET); registration details can be found here:
The European Green Deal, the Circular Economy Action Plan and Industrial Strategy highlight textiles as a priority sector for advancing a carbon-neutral, circular economy. Textiles rank fourth in the high pressure category in the EU for consumption of primary raw materials and water (after food, housing and transport), and fifth for greenhouse gas emissions in the European Economic Area. Moreover, textile value chains are recognised as being long, globalised, and diverse.
While cotton crop itself is not overly water demanding, the combination of large production volumes and considerable use of pesticides/fertilisers have an enormous impact on ecosystems. With the sector expected to grow in the coming decade, it is important to mitigate the impact of cotton cultivation on ecosystems addressing global challenges such as climate change, water scarcity and biodiversity loss.
Additionally, terrestrial technologies like Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning technologies can analyse large datasets effectively, and their capabilities, where relevant for proposed applications, can be enhanced when integrated with space-based data.
This opportunity is open to companies that intend to develop space-enabled services and products related, but not restricted, to the topics of relevance outlined below. The list of countries that can apply includes the UK. Authorisation of Funding letters from National Delegations are required as part of the application.
ESA offer funding and support to companies, both for business case assessment and for the development of new, space-based services.
Our offer includes:
ESA will co-fund 80% of the acceptable cost, up to €200K, per awarded study.
Book an appointment to speak to one of our advisors to discuss your eligibility to apply for this Grant Funding opportunity.
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