GNSS Centre of Excellence the GCE is a non-profit association of legal entities, founded in November 2012 by four founding members /state companies. The objective and purpose of the GCE is to strengthen activities of the Czech Republic in the field of development, testing and deployment of GNSS applications and to provide a base/background for cooperation among the major spheres of transportation (air, rail, road) and industry; to provide ideas of new GNSS systems to industrial partners, centralized ongoing fragmented activities, initiate new activities and to provide expert background. GCE’s mission is also to accelerate the development and deployment of applications using EGNOS as well as Galileo in the Central and Eastern Europe region. GCE is also recognised by the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic as a national excellence centre.