Funding opportunity
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR) is looking for new satellite navigation applications in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2009, offering €150,000 in consulting services to the winners.
DLR, Germany’s national aerospace research centre has a brief to foster the development of new products and services whilst investing in forward-thinking technologies. It also offers its research and development capabilities directly to start-up companies, a form of cooperation that has already led to the development and launch of numerous products.
In the competition, DLR is seeking ideas for products, services, and other inventions that promise long-term benefits to the economy and public sector. In particular, these include applications that require exact timing, satellite-based applications in the healthcare sector, new methods and applications offering improved signal verification and reduced sensitivity to interference, new processes and applications that use satellite signals to achieve highly precise positioning and rapid data distribution on the ground, and innovative applications for the Galileo Public Regulated Service.
The winners will get the benefit of DLR’s scientific expertise and development network to bring their ideas to market. There are three DLR vouchers to be won, granting a total of €150,000 in services.
Applications can be submitted until July 31 2009 at http://galileo-masters.eu/index.php?anzeige=special_prizes_dlr.html
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