PAST EVENTS & NEWS

The Slovak Space Office – Industry Branch, operating within the SARIO agency, organized the second annual Emerging Space European Industry Summit in Bratislava. The initiative comes in collaboration with the leading European space industry association ASD-Eurospace, aiming to identify opportunities and more effectively integrate new space economies and their companies into established supply chains of major European players.

Slovak Space Office organized a very first European Space Agency competition CANSAT in Slovakia. On 9 May 2024, the final of the CanSat competition took place at the airport in Malé Bielice. Secondary school students had the opportunity to experience first-hand the work of space engineers. 14 teams from all over Slovakia made it to the finals. They worked on a variety of topics, from fire detection to climate data measurements to solar energy generation.

The Industry Branch of the Slovak Space Office organized the Demoday event as a finale of the incubation project Spaceport_SK. Seven teams introduced their projects exhibiting the future of the Slovak space industry. Second Demoday (of the Slovak incubator Spaceport_SK) organized by Slovak Space Office SARIO, actively supported the development of local space ecosystem. Spaceport_SK connects a technical apprenticeship with a workshop program with the aim of supporting business skills. Its goal is to boost new startups and innovations in the space industry.

The Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO) within the framework of the National project 'Supporting the internationalization of SMEs' in the period from June 19-25, 2023, prepared a platform for 6 Slovak small and medium-sized entrepreneurs for their presentation as part of a joint exhibition at the International Fair focused on aviation and space industry SIAE Paris Airshow. The Slovak Republic was represented at the exhibition by a national stand under the Good Idea Slovakia brand organized by the SARIO agency, which presented 6 Slovak companies: 3IPK, Airvolute, CTRL, GoSpace IOT, Shark.Aero a Supratek.