FabSpace 2.0 is the open-innovation network for geodata-driven innovation – by leveraging Space data in particular, in Universities 2.0.
The FabSpace 2.0 project that foster FabSpace-Bangladesh aims at making universities and research organizations an open innovation centers for their region and improving their contribution to the socio-economic and environmental performance of societies.
To achieve these general objectives, the FabSpace 2.0 worldwide network offers to concentrate on one research area with high expected socio-economic impact: data-driven innovation, with a particular attention to the Earth Observation data.
In the six European regions covered by the founder FabSpace consortium, partner universities work together with co-located Business Incubation Centres of the European Space Agency (ESA BICs). ESA BICs aim at inspiring entrepreneurs to turn space-connected business ideas into commercial companies, and provide technical expertise and business-development support.
FabSpace 2.0 Horizon 2020 project selected 14 new FabSpaces in December 2017 located in various countries worldwide including France, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Lithuania, Armenia, Cyprus, The Netherlands, and Cameroon. The international opening of the FabSpace 2.0 network has been extended worldwide in November 2018, FabSpace has also included 15 another new FabSpaces in Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Colombia, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Tunisia and Ukraine. These new FabSpaces expanded the FabSpace 2.0 network from its first founder FabSpaces in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece, and Poland.
For more information,
Md Bayzidul Islam
Founder
FabSpace – Bangladesh
info@fabspace-bangladesh.com