PPPA – Innovative User Terminals for European Secure Satellite Communication Service – 2026

Objective

To advance the industrial readiness of European Ka-band user terminal technologies, subsystems and manufacturing processes.

Priorities

• Priority 1: antenna-subsystem industrial readiness
• Priority 2: manufacturing processes and equipment enabling improved throughput, repeatability and unit-cost reduction
• Priority 3: supply-chain measures reducing critical dependencies on non-European sources and strengthening European industrial capability for terminal components
• Priority 4: modem and baseband industrial readiness for 5G NR NTN compliant solutions

Eligibility

• Be legal entities (public or private bodies)
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States (including overseas countries and territories)
• A mandatory declaration of ownership and control is to be filled by all project participants as part of the application.
• Beneficiaries and affiliated entities must register in the Participant Register before submitting the proposal

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: between 18 and 36 months

Projects of longer duration may be accepted in duly justified cases. Extensions are possible, if duly justified and through an amendment of the Grant Agreement.

• Contact: DEFIS-GOVSATCOM@ec.europa.eu
  

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 20 million euros
• Amount of the grant: between 7.000.000 and 20.000.000 euros

The grant awarded may be lower than the amount requested.

• Funding rate: up to 100% of the total eligible costs

This grant is a lump sum grant.