SPACE4Cities Announces Call for Tenders Winners

The 20 winning companies were selected from a record-breaking 141 proposals across 23 European countries. The innovative solutions focus on leveraging satellite data to tackle critical challenges in climate adaptation, sustainable mobility, and urban planning.
 

The 20 winners hail from eleven countries, including three from France, Netherlands and Belgium, two from Finland, Italy and Spain; and one from Greece, Portugal, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. 85% of the winners are small or medium sized companies (under 250 employees). Thirteen of them address the Urban Planning challenge, eleven focus on Climate Adaptation, and four tackle Sustainable Mobility. Many proposals address multiple challenges, showcasing the interconnected nature of these issues.

“We are happy to say, the level of innovation is high, and there is a large enthusiasm from the companies to start refining their solutions with us”, says the SPACE4Cities Project Coordinator Renske Martijnse-Hartikka of the City of Helsinki Innovation Company, Forum Virium Helsinki.

Winning companies

The winning companies coordinating the solutions are the following, in alphabetical order: ASITIS (Czech Republic), Avoin Map (Finland), BitaGreen (Belgium), CEiiA (Portugal), CGI Nederland (Netherlands), Detektia (Spain), eOnsight (France), Everimpact (France), Geo Solutions (Belgium), GeoVille (Austria), Latitudo 40 (Italy), Neptune (Italy), OPTIM.AIZE (France), ORG Urbanism & Architecture (Belgium), Paulinyi&Partners Innovations (Hungary), Sensar (Netherlands), SINGULARLOGIC (Greece), Survintel (Netherlands), Vexiza (Spain) and Zero Gravity (Finland).
 

Some examples of the solutions’ focus points are the cities’ flood control, water management or wildfire prevention, as well as infrastructure and CO2 monitoring, building emission control, and promotion of active mobility. Some of the companies are experienced in the field of space data, and for others integrating satellite services into tools for cities is rather new. Eleven of the suppliers work alone, while nine have formed a consortium to work on SPACE4Cities.
 

For more information on the 20 winners and their solutions, please see our Innovation Catalogue! 
 

Funding of up to €376,000 per company

Each winner will receive up to €36,000 funding to create a detailed Solution Design by the end of August 2025. After that, the top 10 Suppliers with the most suitable solutions, will advance to the next phase to develop their concepts into working prototypes by the end of April 2026. This phase will be awarded with up to €90,000 each. 
 

Finally, the best five Suppliers will have the opportunity to field-test their prototypes in three different European cities during July 2026 – February 2027, with an award of up to €250,000 each. In other words, the Suppliers selected to continue until the end of the project, will receive funding of a total amount of up to €376,000. The top 5 suppliers are expected to further scale up their tested innovations into market-ready solutions, and the SPACE4Cities Buyers Group Cities – Helsinki, Amsterdam, Athens, Ghent and Guimaraes – together with Open & Agile Smart Cities Network and Aerospace Valley, will help to open up the market for them.

The SPACE4Cities team – Forum Virium Helsinki, City of Amsterdam, Regional Development Fund of Attica, District09, Municipality of Guimarães, OASC and Aerospace Valley – wishes to congratulate the winners and looks forward to working closely with them!  🎉