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Launch of EIC Horizon Prize for 'European Low-Cost Space Launch'
12/06/2018
The prize is designed to develop a European technologically non-dependent solution for launching light satellites into Low-Earth Orbit.
Horizon 2020 is the EU's programme for research and innovation. It will run from 2014-2020 and is the successor to the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Innovation prizes, also known as inducement prizes, are an instrument of Horizon 2020 which help to deliver breakthrough solutions to problems of societal interest in Europe such as energy security, climate change, ageing society, public health and so on.