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Research Opportunities - SciSpacE
Home » Research Opportunities

Current Research Opportunities

On this page, you can find an overview of the open SciSpacE research opportunities. These either consist of Continuously Open Research Announcements (CORAs) or ad-hoc and time-bound Announcements of Opportunities (AOs).

Past investigations can be found in the HRE Data Archive (HREDA) that collects information and data of investigations funded or co-funded by ESA’s Directorate for Human and Robotic Exploration (HRE) and performed on microgravity and ground-based facilities since 1972. https://hreda.esac.esa.int/hreda/#/pages/home


CORA
Open for submission
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

CORA Radiation

Through this Continuously Open Research Announcement Opportunity for Radiation, ESA provides access to European accelerator facilities for space radiation research.

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CORA
Open for submission
Life SciencesPhysical Sciences

CORA Parabolic Flight

Through this Continuously Open Research Announcement, ESA provides scientists with an opportunity to fly their research on a Parabolic Flight.

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CORA
Open for submission
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

CORA Ground-Based Facilities

Through this Continuously Open Research Announcement Opportunity for GBF, ESA provides scientists access to state-of-the-are and unique facilities with space relevance.

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CORA
Open for submission
Life SciencesPhysical Sciences

CORA Drop Tower

Through this Continuously Open Research Announcement, ESA provides scientists access to the ZARM Drop Tower in Bremen, Germany for microgravity research.

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Open for submission
Life Sciences

AO-2024-TissueChipOrganoidGround

Deadline: January 31, 2025

Apply now to the ground-based announcement of opportunity making use of tissue-on-chip and organoid models to study the impact of space stressors

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Open for submission
Life SciencesUncategorized

AO-2024-FLY!

Deadline: January 15, 2025

ESA is soliciting for research experiments that might be implemented during a potential future mission of ESA Astronaut with a physical disability,

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Closed
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

AO-2024-lunarPF

Deadline: October 11, 2024

Through this Announcement of Opportunity, ESA is soliciting for research experiments to be implemented during a lunar gravity Parabolic Flight campaign.

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Closed
Physical Sciences

DLR-ESA Joint Announcement of Opportunity for Parabolic Flight Electro-Magnetic Levitation Experiments (AO-TEMPUS-2024)

Deadline: April 26, 2024

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Closed
Life Sciences

AO-2024-Isolation

Deadline: June 14, 2024

ESA is soliciting for research experiments to be implemented during a 100-day isolation and confinement study.

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Closed
Life Sciences

Call for Research MD for Concordia

Deadline: February 12, 2024

Apply now to become the Research Medical Doctor who implements the biomedical programme at the Concordia station at Antarctica

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Closed
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

Call for Lunar Gateway and Moon Surface Facility Definition Teams (FDTs) Membership

Deadline: October 8, 2023

Join our SciSpacE Facility Definition Teams (FDTs) to support the definition of exploration activities for the Lunar Gateway and the Moon surface.

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Closed
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

Call for LEO Facility Definition Teams (FDTs) Membership

Deadline: October 8, 2023

Join our SciSpacE Facility Definition Teams (FDTs) to support the definition of science activities for the post-ISS era.

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Closed
Life SciencesMoon & MarsPhysical Sciences

Call for Polish activities to fly on ISS (AO-2023-Poland)

Deadline: September 8, 2023

Through this Announcement of Opportunity (AO), ESA and the Polish Space Agency (POLSA) seek proposals from Polish entities (academic and/or industry) for activities, including development. The proposed ideas should target scientific activities, technology

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Closed
Physical Sciences

Soft Matter Dynamics facility onboard the ISS (AO-SMD-2023)

Deadline: October 2, 2023

This Announcement of Opportunity (AO) falls within the domain of Soft Matter Physics, and in particular, addresses the study of structure dynamics and events inside

AO SMD 2023 on ISS

Closed
Physical Sciences

Electro-Magnetic Levitation Experiments onboard the International Space Station (EML-ISS Sample Batch 5)

Deadline: September 3, 2023

The objective of this opportunity is the selection of eighteen priority and an appropriate number (typically two or three) of back-up samples

Read more about the AO EML Batch 5

Closed
Life Sciences

AO-2023-BedrestCoreData

Deadline: September 22, 2023

Through this Announcement of Opportunity, ESA provides scientists access to ESA Bedrest Core Data collected across 7 ESA (co)funded bedrest studies for

AO-2023-BedrestCoreData

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