ESA BIC Northern Germany to open at the end of 2018 will cover the region of seven German federal states: Bremen, Berlin, Brandenburg, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg-West Pomerania. The headquarters will be in Bremen, one of Germany’s most important international space hubs. A second branch office is foreseen to open in Berlin in 2020.
The plan is to foster 4 start-ups in 2018, 10 in 2019, 10 in 2020 and 6 in 2021. They will be hosted at BITZ (Bremen Innovation and Technology Center) in the Technology Park Bremen.