The European Space Agency (ESA) has open registrations for "The Innovation Exchange – Fuel the Future" contest, which aims to facilitate the development of a competitive European ecosystem of entrepreneurs and start-up companies that develop solutions to some of society's current and future challenges.

A first round of sessions with experts with different backgrounds is going to take place on 8 June 2017 at ESA’ ESTEC centre with the goal to gather ideas on resources management on the Moon and near-Earth asteroids. The meeting will particularly look at in-situ resource utilisation.

The sessions represent the first step in determining the themes for the ESA Grand Challenge Initiative.

Find out more about “The Innovation Exchange – Fuel the Future” by visiting this page.

Learn more about the ESA Grand Challenge here.

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