The South West SpaceTech Challenge will support innovative entrepreneurs using space-enabled technologies to grow their business, and connect with commercial opportunities in the Offshore Wind and Climate & Nature resilience spaces. As part of the SpaceWest programme, it will push forward our ambition to build a leading space ecosystem across our region.
What is the Innovation Challenge
The South West SpaceTech Challenge is a competition inviting innovators using space-enabled technologies to provide solutions to real world problems in offshore wind. It is led by the Space West and supported by Deloitte.
This is a unique opportunity for innovators to work with an important growing sector and gain a deeper understanding of specific industry challenges. The package of support will help innovators develop solutions with the potential to scale up for the global market.
The Challenge aims to deliver three key objectives:
Why Apply?
Taking part in the South West SpaceTech Challenge will give you an opportunity to:
By participating in this program, you will get access to:
Innovators can apply to either of the above Challenge Statements and showcase how their space-enabled technology can be leveraged in these areas.
Further, more specific challenges briefs have been developed by the Challenge Group, and innovators are invited to apply to showcase how their technology can provide solutions for these current, real world problems end users are facing today.
The Challenge Group
The Challenge briefs have been developed by a group of organisations growing the offshore wind industry in the Celtic Sea and those developing UK Climate & Nature Resilience.
At Celtic Sea Power we want to understand the applications of Satellite data for:
The Crown Estate is a unique landowner growing the financial, environmental and social value of our diverse portfolio to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation, and we play an active role on the UK seabed in offshore energy, marine aggregates and cables and pipelines. As part of identifying areas to be leased for offshore wind, we use a stakeholder-validated evidence base to enhance understanding of spatial interactions, co-location opportunities and risks to other seabed activities, and through this challenge, we’re interested in understanding how satellite data can help to improve this evidence base. To ensure the most value out of this space solution, there is also further opportunity to use information about smaller leisure and fishing vessels (less than 12 metres in length) that are not captured within existing vessel monitoring datasets. Improving understanding of vessel density and location would be incredibly valuable for marine spatial planning and habitat restoration efforts.
How can space-enabled technologies be used to understand where and how water company activities interface with nature?
How can space-enabled technologies be used to ensure we are a nation ready for and resilient to flood and coastal change now and in the future?
The Challenge Group
The South West SpaceTech Challenge brief was developed by a group of organisations growing the offshore wind industry in the Celtic Sea and those developing UK Climate & Nature Resilience.
Challenge Timeline
Download the full timeline here.
Application
Innovators entering the South West SpaceTech challenge using space-enabled technologies to address the Challenge Brief, please apply below.
Eligibility
Contact
For information please email: [email protected]
