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📢 Materials x Space: A unique opportunity in space innovation! We’re excited to announce that our 2nd Phi-Lab Switzerland call for proposals is now open! This call is a unique opportunity to bridge Space and advanced manufacturing. 🧩 🚀 🎯 The Big Question: What if spacecraft structures could adapt, shield, and self-heal in orbit, enabled through advanced manufacturing? Are you bold enough to answer this big question? Help us solve a space x materials challenge and be part of 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://lnkd.in/eUUmU3at 🔗 Application platform on OSIP by ESA: https://lnkd.in/e973a3HB 👤 Contact Markus Schölmerich , Phi-Lab Program manager. 📅 Deadline: December 5th 2025 #ESDI #SpaceInnovation #PhiLabSwitzerland #DeepTech European Space Agency - ESA l PSI Paul Scherrer Institut l Switzerland Innovation Park Innovaare l Jennifer Wadsworth, PhD l Markus Schölmerich l Johann Richard l Mathilde Henrioud