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Corallia is an incubator, youth entrepreneurship accelerator, multi-Cluster facilitator and a think-tank that underpins national and regional development plans in Greece. Corallia has played a key role in the development of the Greek startup and innovation ecosystem and has become one of its main pillars. Corallia has supported up to date more than 500 innovative enterprises of all sizes to grow in Greece and internationally, of which more than 300 were new startups. In our 18 years of operation, more than 10,000 people and organisations have directly benefited from our activities, including aspiring entrepreneurs, startups, SMEs, large corporations, students, universities and research centres, national and regional authorities, while the indirect beneficiaries exceed 100,000 individuals and organisations. Corallia was established in 2005 as a Unit of the Athena Research Centre.

ESA BIC Greece is the Business Incubator of ESA in Greece, with the objective to strengthen the local community of successful space-related startups, with 5 startups every year. ESA BIC Greece provides high quality business incubation services in full compliance with the ESA common framework and is part of the largest network of incubators supporting space related startups in Europe. The incubated startups should either exploit space technology in non-space markets (spin-off) or become suppliers to the space sector (spin-in). ESA BIC Greece is not only essential in supporting entrepreneurs and startups from the development of a business idea to full commercialization but also underpins the creation, grow and strengthening of the space cluster in Greece, contributes to the national innovation and space strategies, encourages further uptake of space-based services, supports transfer of technologies from/to the space sector and creates jobs and economic growth. ESA BIC is supported by the Greek Ministry of Digital Governance and more than 70 other organisations that have identified the creation of ESA BIC Greece as a key element in the development plan of the Greek Space Industry.

si-Cluster is the Hellenic Space Technologies and Applications Cluster, an emerging, industrially-led and user-driven innovation cluster in Greece with the vision to become a world class cluster in the challenging and fast-growing sector of space technologies and applications. It is expanding rapidly not only its industrial base but also its cooperation ties with all the innovation ecosystem actors, bringing 80+ stakeholders of the space sector in Greece, and aiming to fulfil its mission of placing Greece among the countries which currently develop cutting edge space technologies and applications, capable of developing and attracting high impact research, and development, innovation and business activities. The si-Cluster was established in 2009 as a joint initiative of Corallia and the Hellenic Association of Space Industries.