Open for submissions until June 19

Space Iceland is honored to communicate that was officially selected as a Regional of the Galileo & Copernicus Masters competitions. We are really please with this recognition for our labor in the field and we encourage to all of you to participate in the competitions and also, the development of the space and the humanity.


The Copernicus Masters is the leading innovation competition for commercial Earth observation (EO) applications. Open for submissions until 19 July 2021, the competition awards prizes to innovative solutions, services, and business concepts that use Earth observation data to solve important societal and environmental challenges. With more than EUR 835,000 worth of prizes, there is an opportunity for great minds to boost their business with big data from space. Read More!

Space Iceland as a Copernicus Masters Regional Associate 2021 is proud to support the awarding of innovative solutions, developments and ideas that use EO data to tackle challenges faced by business and society. As a regional associate we are part of the constantly growing EO community as well as the EO business ecosystem. 

In 2021, the Copernicus Masters offers participants a diverse range of topic-specific challenges to tackle global challenges with their competition entries. The 8 competition partners – European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (COM), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Planet, BayWa, UP42 with Airbus, the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI) and Portugal Space (Portuguese Space Agency) – have each established unique challenges for the participants, with individual prize pools designed to support the winner to further develop its solution. Again this year, besides the topic-specific challenges, participants also have the opportunity to also choose a regional or country-related Copernicus Prize Partner – powered by the European Commission – who can best support their innovations. In addition, the Copernicus Prize Partners award extra prizes to their winner. Discover more here!


The Galileo Masters annually awards prizes to the best services, products, and business concepts that use satellite navigation in everyday life, spurring the development of respective market-driven applications. Open for submissions until 19 July 2021, the competition awards prizes to innovative solutions at each development stage, with the objective of turning them into real businesses. With more than EUR 785,000 worth of prizes, there is an opportunity for great minds to boost their business with Galileo/EGNOS.
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Space Iceland as a Galileo Masters Regional Associate 2021 is proud to support the awarding of innovative solutions, developments and ideas that use satellite navigation data to tackle challenges faced by business and society. 

The 2021 Galileo Masters offers participants a diverse range of topic-specific challenges to tackle global challenges with their competition entries. The competition’s partners, the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure (BMVI), the European Space Agency (ESA) and AZO – the organiser of the competition – have each set participants unique challenges, with individual prize pools designed to support the winner to further develop its solution. 

Again this year, besides the topic-specific challenges, participants have also the opportunity to choose a regional or country-related Galileo Prize Partner – powered by the European Commission – who can best support their innovations. In addition, the Galileo Prize Partners award extra prizes to their winner. Discover more here!

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