ARTES4.0 - Advanced Research in Telecommunication Systems - How to apply

For Technology and Products under ARTES4.0

Proposals for industry-initiated activities (both new proposals and CCNs) will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Industry is invited to submit their outline proposal or CCN documentation as basis for the evaluation.
Proposals for ESA-initiated activities (competitive calls / workplan activities on esa-star) will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Industry is invited to present the project for evaluation. Please contact Belspo at least 4 weeks before the ESA deadline.

Participation to Partnership Projects is subject to the ability for Belspo to join the concerned project budget line, and will be evaluated in the same manner as industry- or ESA-initiated Technology and Products activities depending on the initiator of the project.

Please contact bram.vandroogenbroeck@belspo.be to submit your proposal or to plan a project presentation.

Belspo requires the evaluation material (either the project presentation or outline proposal) to contain at least the following information:

Basic information: ESA reference, project name, consortium members, budget and funding level,
Role or position of the project within the BE company roadmap, product roadmap or strategy,
Description of technology, product or service and project work breakdown structure
Budget breakdown (can be a copy of the draft ESA PSS sheets), including detail of external sources and (intended) countries of provenance
Market, overview of competition and business case (including ROM cost for further development phases and intended funding sources)
Return on investment, link with national strategies and priorities or socio-economic benefits for Belgium.

In the document “BELSPO_Evaluation_Form_v202603.pdf", you can find the evaluation criteria and associated weighting factors that BELSPO will use in the evaluation of projects. Projects that score 60 or higher are eligible for support.

The relevant proposal templates can be retrieved from Documents | ESA CSC. The evaluation criteria may include sections which might not always be present in the ESA outline proposal. Please check the evaluation criteria against your outline proposal to ensure all criteria are covered in your proposal. Feel free to resubmit your outline proposal if you had already submitted it.

Proposals may be shared by the Belgian Science Policy Office with the Belgian Defence to assess the possibility to support the activity in the frame of their space research cooperation. Note that this has no impact on the funding nor supported amount. If you prefer not for your proposal to be shared with the Belgian Defence, please inform BELSPO timely.