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PREVIOUS EDITIONS

The first edition of the Space for Sustainability Award took place in 2013. Since then, 22 young and promising teams have won the first place or received a special mention from the jury. On this page you will find the winning project ideas and their reports (PDF).

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Dennis Jöckel

Sustainable Re-entry Materials

Winner 2025

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Team Fusion Dynamics

Space Rated Plasma Actuation

Jury Special Mention 2025

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Alexander Rützler

Eco-Friendly Production of Titanium and Lunar Oxygen

Winner 2024

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Fiona Poda

Satellite-AI Integration:
Sustainable Urbanisation and Wildlife Migration Management

Jury Special Mention 2024

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José Pedro De Sousa Ferreira

Spacecraft Reentry as a Source of Atmospheric Pollutants

Winner 2023

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Mikel Iturbe Llano

Space and Stratosphere for Extreme Surface
Climate

Winner 2022

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Minguye Yuan

Understanding and evaluating the consequences of greening across the Arctic

Jury Special Mention 2022

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Andrew Ross Wilson &

Audrey Berquand

SEA from Space: Coastal Management via Satellites

Winner 2021

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Esha

Self-cremating Satellite: A solution to reduce lifetime of space debris

Jury Special Mention 2021

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Coralie Brival &

Martín García Pérez

SedimenTerra: An Assessment Tool for Sediment Monitoring

Winner 2020

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Pedro Neves &

Maria Inês Vaz

Containing Wildfires with Satellites

Jury Special Mention 2020

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Simon Vilms Pedersen

AnthroAm Sentinel: Mitigation of Anthropogenic Emission of Ammonia in Agriculture 

Winner 2019

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Tom Mladenov

Smart Satellite and AIS Enabled Environmental Sensing Buoys for the Arctic

Jury Special Mention 2019

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Ariane Bouilly, Romain Estève & Olivier Ferrage

BeeSat: Enhancing Pollination Efficiency

Winner 2018

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Antonio Giménez Nadal

Nanosatellite Collision Avoidance System

Jury Special Mention 2018

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Katherine Bruce &

Gabriele De Canio

Agronomia: Using Satellites to Unlock Europe's Untapped Resource

Winner 2017

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Rachel Stephenson

Forecasting Cetacean Strandings

Jury Special Mention 2017

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Eric Herrero

Satellite Prediction of Illegal Wildlife Trafficking Route

Winner 2016

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Francesca Letizia

Eco-labelling for spacecraft: a debris index

Jury Special Mention 2016

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Cristian Lazar

Traffic Eyes from Above: Safe Driving when Visibility is Precarious

Jury Special Mention 2016

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Laurent Brach

Plastic Pollution in the Ocean

Winner 2015

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Alexandru Georgescu

Space Applications for European Heritage Site Conservation

Jury Special Mention 2015

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Sophie Damy

A Satellite-based Optimisation of the European Freight Transport Network

Winner 2014

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Yuuki Peters

The Terra Recovery Project: Turning Yesterday’s Waste into Tomorrow’s Product

Jury Special Mention 2014

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Maxime Puteau

Mars 4 Earth: Sustainable Development for Space Exploration

Winner 2013

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Dr. Jeannette Heiligers

Eyes on the Poles: a Continuous Hemispherical View of the Polar Regions

Jury Special Mention 2013

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