Astrodemo, winner of the Arqus International Innovators Award contest 2024

More than 600 voters from all over Europe decided to select “Astrodemo” as the most innovative idea from our partner universities. Congratulations! The winner was announced at the “Leipziger Gründungsnacht”, a local startup event organised in Leipzig, with more than 400 guests.

Astrodemo is launching innovations into the Space Economy through Low-Cost space missions, helping to make an impact in orbit and on Earth.

Behind Astrodemo there is a team of master’s students, PhD candidates, and alumni from the University of Padua with strong engineering backgrounds, specializing in the key engineering fields required for developing space missions and effectively supporting their clients, namely, Aerospace (Samuele Enzo and Stefano Polese), Electronics (Davide Bicego), and Biomedical Engineering (Gianluca C. Taccani).

This competition encourages students and researchers to show their projects in a European context.