Deadline Date: Ongoing
The ESA BIC Lithuania is currently accepting applications for incubation, offering guidance, support, and funding to help develop innovative space-focused business ideas.
The program focuses on supporting Lithuania-registered start-ups, facilitating new or early-stage companies, ensuring a clear connection to upstream or downstream space applications, and promoting viable business cases with market potential.
The ESA BIC Lithuania incubation program lasts 12, 18, or 24 months, offering funding that can be used for research and development, intellectual property protection, third-party consultations, employee salaries (excluding shareholders), and, within defined limits, market research, with all funds required to be spent exclusively in Lithuania.
Eligible applicants include space-related start-ups not older than five years or natural persons intending to establish a space-focused start-up in Lithuania. Applications must demonstrate a valid space connection, meaning that the proposed technology or service is essential in a space context or provides value in upstream or downstream space applications. Third-party verification of space relevance is strongly recommended before applying.
Applicants must run their start-up at their own risk, meaning more than half of the shares must be owned by the entrepreneur(s) applying to ESA BIC. Natural persons must hold a valid Lithuanian work permit for the duration of the incubation and provide details about company setup, legal structure, and share distribution. Incubation contracts can only be signed with legal entities.
For more information, visit ESA BIC.
