This Innovation Catalogue presents the 20 highly innovative satellite data solutions selected in the SPACE4Cities Call for Tenders in June 2025, and the Supplier organisations behind them.
SPACE4Cities is an innovation initiative, coordinated by Forum Virium Helsinki, that aims to increase the resilience of European cities by providing replicable solutions for dynamic urban planning, environmental change preparedness and adaptation. The project seeks to boost the utilization of European satellite data and the growth of European space technology companies, thereby enhancing Europe’s self-reliance.
SPACE4Cities is the first pre-commercial procurement stimulating European tools and data sources, Earth Observation (EO) from Copernicus and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies from Galileo programmes, thus fostering their combination in meeting European cities’ needs as well as the needs of the space sector.
Space solutions for European cities
One of the key services of the project, is this Innovation Catalogue, designed primarily for European cities, R&I projects and the general public, it will increase the Call for Tender winner suppliers’ visibility and raise much-needed awareness on space applications, services and data.
Given the broad audience considered, the Innovation Catalogue’s focus is on end users, types of cities, innovativeness, use cases addressed and which space data and services are integrated by solutions. Its appealing colours and extensive use of images and logos says it all: space applications are cooler and more down-to-Earth than you think!
The 20 winners presented in the catalogue hail from eleven countries: three from France, Netherlands and Belgium, two from Finland, Italy and Spain; and one from Greece, Portugal, Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic.
Some examples of the presented 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.