Civil Security from Space (CSS) - Practical and technical information

Additional relevant links for CSS:
Design, development and validation of technology upstream/downstream products/services for CSS:

Presently, ESA CSS call for proposals is aimed at partnerships (a prime with a contract to ESA leading the project for consortium members that all have a contract to the prime). This works similarly to the ESA\ARTES GPL Industry-led Partnerships Projects (see ARTES) but is based on the specific CSS thematic and it is using a separate ESA\CSS budget line than the ESA\ARTES one.

In the future, when more budget is available on the ESA\CSS budget line, there will be also gap-filling product projects (were entities of a consortium all have a contract to ESA and not to a prime) with rules then similar to the ESA\ARTES CC technology projects (see GPL Core Competitiveness – CC) for respectively upstream, and to the ESA\ARTES\BASS Business Application projects rules (see GPL Business Applications and Space Solutions – BASS) for the downstream projects. Those upstream and downstream projects will be based on the specific CSS thematic and will then use the ESA\CSS budget line, separated from the ESA\ARTES budget line.

In the meantime, for upstream product projects from one given TRL to another, Belgian entities should use SPL 4S or GPL CC budgetary lines in the ARTES programme with C&G rules; whereas for downstream feasibility studies or demonstration projects from one given TRL to another, Belgian entities are welcome to SPL 4S or GPL BASS budgetary lines in the ARTES programme.