CASSINI Hackathons & Mentoring
Europe-wide CASSINI Hackathons are a major opportunity to develop ideas for a digital application building on space data, including satellite images and positioning services. They are particularly addressed to students, graduates, researchers and teams/start-ups in their very early stages. Each hackaton takes place simultaneously in ten European cities and the local organisers will offer everything you need to form a great team, learn about accessing space data, identifying customer needs, and start working on your digital solution.
One winner from each of the ten locations will proceed to the pitching finals, and the three best teams will win attractive prizes, including six months of qualified mentoring from the best space-business coaches in Europe. There will also be plenty of prizes offered by sponsors to the participants in each of the ten locations.
Check the Hackathon website for detailed challenges.
CASSINI Challenge - applications for 2025 are open!
The competition is looking for EU Space-based solutions in satellite navigation, Earth observation, satellite communication or space surveillance and tracking.
More info on the Cassini challenge 2025
CASSINI Prizes
The objective of the CASSINI Prizes is to develop close-to-market digital applications based on European space data, including satellite images, positioning services and other sources and to demonstrate solutions to tackle global environmental and societal challenges. The prizes require both state-of the-art technology and a convincing business concept. The best proposals will present their prototypes on the spot and get the chance to compete for a sizeable monetary prize.