Sustainability × Space: Identifying Technological Conundrums Worth Solving
In collaboration with ESA, the Phi-Lab at ESA’s European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre is calling for ideas (not research proposals) for technological challenges or “conundrums” at the intersection of space and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on technology convergence by combining the deep-tech areas Quantum, Materials, and Data.
In this call, convergence is specifically understood as the integration of technologies with the potential to unlock new commercially viable systems or services, not just technical co-evolution.
Submissions should identify technological conundrums that act as critical bottlenecks to the emergence of commercially viable capabilities based on such technology convergence. A strong submission clearly indicates a plausible context of use, the type of commercial service or system that would be unlocked if the constraint is resolved, and why current technology or market structures fail to address it.
