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  • 294 - EULERIAN

    294 - EULERIAN

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 15/07/2026
    Duration: 36 Months
    EULERIAN is a pioneering project delivering a rugged, ready-to-use RF front-end tailored for emerging LEO PNT applications. It provides industries with a dramatic shortcut in development times, eliminating the need to build front-end hardware from scratch.   The system supports wideband signal acquisition from 100 MHz up to the Ka-band, enabling compatibility with multiple LEO…

    Prime contractor

    ECLEXYS Sagl

    Name: ECLEXYS Sagl

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://space.eclexys.com/

  • 301 - Ground Optical Atomic Clock for Evaluation

    301 - Ground Optical Atomic Clock for Evaluation

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 18/02/2026
    Duration: 27 Months
    The GOACE (Ground Optical Atomic Clock for Evaluation) project aims to deliver an optical atomic clock for evaluation by the European Space Agency. Developed by Rolex Quantum and CSEM, the clock employs an optical transition in Rubidium to achieve outstanding long‐term frequency stability with competitive SWaP, and low‐maintenance. The clock will undergo a full year of continuous testing at…

    Prime contractor

    Rolex Quantum SA

    Name: Rolex Quantum SA

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.rolex.com/

    Subcontractors

    CSEM

    Name: CSEM

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.csem.ch

  • 295 - Beyond GNSS: LEO-PNT Enabled Mass Market Chipset

    295 - Beyond GNSS: LEO-PNT Enabled Mass Market Chipset

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 11/02/2026
    Duration: 24 Months
    The project will pave the way for a next-generation, high-performance GNSS receiver chipset with native support for LEO-PNT signals. By combining the resilience of emerging LEO constellations with the maturity of established MEO systems, the chipset will deliver superior accuracy, robustness, reliability, and availability across automotive, industrial, and consumer markets. The phased development…

    Prime contractor

    u-blox

    Name: u-blox

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.u-blox.com/en

  • 246 - CrowdShield GNSS

    246 - CrowdShield GNSS

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 15/12/2025
    Duration: 15 Months
    As GNSS threats such as jamming and spoofing increase, impacting critical missions and infrastructures, the demand for real-time GNSS service monitoring grows. CrowdShield GNSS meets this need by delivering real-time monitoring and alerts for GNSS degradations at global, regional, and local scales. The solution innovatively hybridizes data from existing GNSS receivers, and ADS-B streams,…

    Prime contractor

    Thales Services

    Name: Thales Services

    Country: France

    Website: https://www.thalesgroup.com

    Subcontractors

    Joanneum Research

    Name: Joanneum Research

    Country: Austria

    Website: https://www.joanneum.at/

    SkAI Data Services

    Name: SkAI Data Services

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.skai-data-services.com/

    WORK Microwave

    Name: WORK Microwave

    Country: Germany

    Website: https://work-microwave.com/

  • 260 - RD1029 GNSS Performance Evaluation Kit

    260 - RD1029 GNSS Performance Evaluation Kit

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 24/11/2025
    Duration: 13 Months
    Saphyrion is finalizing the remaining development steps required to bring into production its rad-hard GNSS IC chipset, consisting of the SY1009 GNSS RF front-end and the companion SY1019 ADC device. This project focuses on the subsequent activities needed to develop an end-to-end Evaluation Kit (EVK), designated SY1029-EVK, which will support both performance assessment and commercial…

    Prime contractor

    SAPHYRION SAGL

    Name: SAPHYRION SAGL

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: http://www.saphyrion.ch/

  • 111 - Managing GNSS Local Effects in the Railway Environment for Advanced Safe Train Positioning

    111 - Managing GNSS Local Effects in the Railway Environment for Advanced Safe Train Positioning

    Element 1 - Innovation in satellite Navigation
    Start date: 29/10/2025
    Duration: 18 Months
    The main objective of this ITT is the study, design, implementation and demonstration of technologies, techniques and solutions to handle the presence of GNSS local effects (multipath, NLOS, jamming, spoofing) within the context of an EGNOS supported multi-sensor localization unit for railway users. This project aims at filling this gap by considering the following specific objectives:  1.…

    Prime contractor

    DLR - Institute of Communications and Navigation

    Name: DLR - Institute of Communications and Navigation

    Country: Germany

    Website: https://www.dlr.de/kn/en/

    Subcontractors

    Thales Alenia Space France SAS

    Name: Thales Alenia Space France SAS

    Country: France

    Website: https://www.thalesaleniaspace.com/fr

    Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

    Name: Swiss Federal Railways (SBB)

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.sbb.ch/de

  • 231 - AI-Driven GNSS Spoofing Detection in Community Reference Networks

    231 - AI-Driven GNSS Spoofing Detection in Community Reference Networks

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 01/07/2025
    Duration: 24 Months
    A community-powered GNSS reference station network developed by onocoy enables the mass adoption of high-precision satellite positioning. The disruptive approach of decoupling the operation of reference stations from the delivery of correction services, and establishing a shared platform for such data, makes it possible to create a network with unprecedented coverage and density. The benefits are…

    Prime contractor

    onocoy Service AG

    Name: onocoy Service AG

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://onocoy.com/

    Subcontractors

    ETH Zurich

    Name: ETH Zurich

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: http://www.ethz.ch

  • 179 - Railway Position, Velocity & Timing (PVT) Referencing System

    179 - Railway Position, Velocity & Timing (PVT) Referencing System

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 01/01/2025
    Duration: 24 Months
    The proposed Railway Position, Velocity and Timing Reference System (RaiwaylPVT) will use ETCS Eurobalises to augment GNSS.   Fused with inertial referencing and advanced odometry, the overall system will deliver accurate positioning, velocity and timing with full availability in any (ETCS) railway network with ensured integrity.   The partners iMAR Navigation (iMAR), Schweizer…

    Prime contractor

    iMAR Navigation GmbH

    Name: iMAR Navigation GmbH

    Country: Germany

    Website: https://www.imar-navigation.de/de/

    Subcontractors

    Schweizer Bundesbahnen SBB AG

    Name: Schweizer Bundesbahnen SBB AG

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://company.sbb.ch/de/home.html

    Siemens Mobility

    Name: Siemens Mobility

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://www.mobility.siemens.com/ch/de.html

    Schild & Partner

    Name: Schild & Partner

    Country: Austria

    Website: http://www.schild-partner.com/

  • 082 - Low noise frequency tunable microwave generation using photonic integrated microcombs

    082 - Low noise frequency tunable microwave generation using photonic integrated microcombs

    Element 1 - Innovation in satellite Navigation
    Start date: 10/12/2024
    Duration: 24 Months
    Photonic integrated circuits embed complex optical systems in compact chips manufactured in semiconductor foundries. The availability of high-speed modulation, ultra-low propagation losses, and discovery of the optical microcomb have revolutionized many aspects of integrated photonics in the last 15 years. In particular, new applications in microwave photonics by translating electronic signals to…

    Prime contractor

    Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Departement of Electronic Systems

    Name: Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Departement of Electronic Systems

    Country: Norway

    Website: https://www.ntnu.edu/ies

    Subcontractors

    Luxtelligence SA

    Name: Luxtelligence SA

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: https://luxtelligence.ai/

  • 160 - SPH-GNSS-FE-ASIC-2023 – GNSS Multi Channel Front-End ASIC

    160 - SPH-GNSS-FE-ASIC-2023 – GNSS Multi Channel Front-End ASIC

    Element 2 - Competitiveness in PNT
    Start date: 15/12/2023
    Duration: 24 Months
    The scope of the project is the design  of an IC integrated circuit (single die) that implements the front-end receiver section of GNSS multi-band signal receiver space-born platforms. The frontend receiver includes all the circuits from the antenna to the ADC output and provides the digitalised output to the GNSS units base-band processors or SW receivers. The target applications are all GNSS…

    Prime contractor

    SAPHYRION SAGL

    Name: SAPHYRION SAGL

    Country: Switzerland

    Website: http://www.saphyrion.ch/

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