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🚀 What if spacecraft structures could adapt, shield, and self-heal in orbit, enabled through advanced manufacturing? We’re excited to see European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) initiatives like the Phi-Lab Switzerland 2nd call for proposals, connecting advanced materials and space innovation. 👉 Apply to this call until December 5th and receive funding between 200,000 to 990,000 CHF for your project over a 24-month period and guidance from experts. The Challenge:Achieve a step change in AM: opening entirely new research directions and enabling extreme-environment performance that today’s methods cannot approach. The goal is to move beyond incremental improvements and deliver a new generation of printable, certifiable, and commercially relevant structures. Key objectives must target advances such as:- Thermal resilience- Radiation/EM protection- Robustness under stress- Autonomous build & repair- Multi-material fidelity- Commercial pathways ⭐ Why Phi-Lab at ESDI: The Phi-Lab at ESDI aspires to transform breakthrough science into real-world solutions. The approach based on use-inspired research, combined with deep-tech competence in our ecosystem, promises that developments are scientifically excellent, commercially relevant and have potential market impact. We expect that this accelerates progress from laboratory demonstrations to market-ready products that meet the demanding standards of space, but also terrestrial applications. Details on ESDI website: https://www.esdi.ch/materials/

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• Published Date: 11/3/2025 11:05:42 AM
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🚀 What if spacecraft structures could adapt, shield, and self-heal in orbit, enabled through advanced manufacturing?

We’re excited to see European Space Deep-Tech Innovation Centre (ESDI) initiatives like the Phi-Lab Switzerland 2nd call for proposals, connecting advanced materials and space innovation.

👉 Apply to this call until December 5th and receive funding between 200,000 to 990,000 CHF for your project over a 24-month period and guidance from experts.

The Challenge:

Achieve a step change in AM: opening entirely new research directions and enabling extreme-environment performance that today’s methods cannot approach. The goal is to move beyond incremental improvements and deliver a new generation of printable, certifiable, and commercially relevant structures. Key objectives must target advances such as:

- Thermal resilience

- Radiation/EM protection

- Robustness under stress

- Autonomous build & repair

- Multi-material fidelity

- Commercial pathways

⭐ Why Phi-Lab at ESDI:

The Phi-Lab at ESDI aspires to transform breakthrough science into real-world solutions. The approach based on use-inspired research, combined with deep-tech competence in our ecosystem, promises that developments are scientifically excellent, commercially relevant and have potential market impact. We expect that this accelerates progress from laboratory demonstrations to market-ready products that meet the demanding standards of space, but also terrestrial applications.

 Details on ESDI website: https://www.esdi.ch/materials/