European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC)
Entry for the European Satellite Navigation Competition has now closed.
During GRACE’s first year of managing the UK ESNC in 2010, the UK recorded an impressive 1/5 of the total applications within a landscape of a growing number of regions participating.
The East Midlands has played a role in the competition since 2007, but played a diminished role in 2008, when there was also uncertainty about GALILEO, so a big thank you to everybody who registered for the competition and showed interest for the 2010 competition, helping us to double last years total entrants.
The UK panel of experts is currently evaluating your ideas and will select 5 finalists. These finalists will be invited to present their solutions to the judges in Nottingham on 9 September. We strongly encourage you to save that date to make sure you can make this presentation. You will be notified on 3 September if you are selected for this presentation.
All other participants will be notified about the status of their idea by the end of September.
The international judges meeting takes place on the 20th and 21st September 2010, then the International Awards Cermony takes place on the 18th October 2010 in Munich, where the ESNC winners will be given a platform during a 2-day event around the Awards Ceremony (18/19 October) in Munich which will also provide great international networking opportunities.
Special thanks goes to all our sponsors and everybody involved!
|
YEAR |
UK RANKING |
UK APPLICANTS |
TOTAL APPLICANTS |
|
2006 |
1 (out of 10 regions) |
12 |
57 |
|
2007 |
1 (out of 11 regions) |
54 |
141 |
|
2008 |
4 (out of 13 regions) |
21 |
293 |
|
2009 |
2 (out of 18 regions) |
31 |
289 |
|
2010 |
1 (out of 23 regions) |
65 |
357 |
The Galileo Masters or European Satellite Navigation Competition runs from July. Enter for your chance to win £10,000.
Providing a springboard for new business ideas using satellite navigation technologies, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC), also known as the Galileo Masters, encourages the development of new ideas and provides a platform for global market exposure, incubation support and funding assistance.
The competition, which promotes the developement of downstrean applications and aims to prepare for the arrival of the Galileo satellite system is promoted and supported by ESA (the European Space Agency), GSA (the European GNSS Agency), Navteq, DLR, T-Systems and DHL amongst a host of others. The competition now draws entries from 23 international regions including Taiwan and Australia and from 2009 also the USA.
Prizes include:
- A first prize of €20,000 to the overall winner
- 6 months Business incubation
- A free UK patent submission
- Business plan advice
- Introductions to technology partners and funding opportunities
- High Profile national and international PR campaign
The UK region has developed two international winners since the competition was established in 2004, a feat matched by only one other Region.
Geosynch (the 2006 UK winner) became overall Galileo Master (based in IOM now working in France), developing seismic simulation for oil companies.
Sci-Tech Systems (the 2008 UK winner) developing a marine life saving system went on to become the first ever triple winner of the competition picking up the GSA special topic prize and becoming the overall international winner.
SUBMIT YOUR IDEAS BETWEEN May and July and turn your ideas into commercial success.
The European SATNAV Competition is in partnership with the following Regions:
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