🚀 Start-ups Challenge 2024

The challenge welcomes any solutions that can be used in the face of complex crises, from high-intensity conflicts to humanitarian and environmental disasters.

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JOIN THE EUROSATORY START-UPS CHALLENGE!

The world’s leading Defence, Security, and Civil Protection exhibition is calling for start-ups with innovative products, services or expertise.  

Propose your solutions with the potential to be used in the face of complex crises, from high-intensity conflicts to humanitarian and environmental disasters.

 

Earn the opportunity to exhibit your solution during the Eurosatory 2024 exhibition in Paris!

 

OPPORTUNITIES

  • 1st
  • 2nd
  • 3rd

1st

For the Grand Winner:
  • A free stand in the 2024 Eurosatory Lab
  • 2 tickets to the Official reception
  • Visibility & Exposure (social media)

2nd

For the second team:
  • Invitation to the BtoB Business meetings of Eurosatory 2024
  • 2 tickets for the Official reception
  • Visibility & Exposure (social media)

3rd

For the third team:
  • Inscription to BtoB Business meetings of Eurosatory 2024
  • Visibility & Exposure (social media)

TIMELINE

  • APPLICATION

    September 4 - November 10

    Register now, select your field of interest, and submit your startup pitch deck!

  • MENTORSHIP

    January 15 - February 15

    The 5 finalists will have the opportunity to connect with experts to enhance their pitch decks for the final!

  • FINAL

    February - March 2024

    The 5 finalists will pitch their solutions to a jury of experts before the top 3 winners are announced.

  • EUROSATORY 2024

     June 17 - June 21 2024

    Strengthen your international position
    and grow your business during the 5 days Eurosatory exhibition! 

CATEGORIES

Engineering, design, and materials

Raw materials and their use in defence require the highest levels of research, design and manufacture

Infrastructure protection

 Protecting infrastructure and events requires new mobile and projectable resources and services

Human support and protection

Supporting people is at the heart of every crisis, and life-support systems are not just for the people providing aid, but also for the victims

 

Armament and reduced lethality

From rocket-propelled munitions to new directed weapons, new conflicts are involving increasingly complex arsenals 

Protection of the environment and natural disasters

Solving environmental crises is one of the major challenges of the 21st century; military and civilian technologies must be brought to bear in this fight 
 
 

Operations command (crises and conflicts)

 
At the heart of conflict and crisis management systems, command centres concentrate all the information and decisions for operations that may be transnational

Open Category

 
 
Feel free to submit any project that might be relevant in the face of complex crises and does not fit in the previous categories

ONLINE FINAL

The final will be held virtually between on the first week of March 2024. The top 5 finalists will have a unique opportunity to pitch in front of the key decision makers of Eurosatory.
 
The results will then be announced the next day of the Final Event!