ESA extended its successful collaboration with German AZO for its ESA BIC Bavaria, 4 May 2018. €1.5million has been raised to foster 60 new start-ups in Bavaria. From left: Frank M. Salzgeber (Head of ESA Technology Transfer and Business Incubation Office), Dr Michael Mittnacht (Airbus D&S), Dr Günter Rohmer (Coordinator of the Fraunhofer site in Nuremberg), Thorsten Rudolph (Managing Director AZO), Stefanie Herrmann (CFO AZO), Dr Rolf-Dieter Fischer (Director of DLR Technology Marketing), Dr Franziska Zeitler (DLR Space Administration Innovation & New Markets), Dietmar Schneyer (Head of Unit Applied Research of the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology), Stefan Lange (Deputy Chair of KSK München) and ESA Director General Prof Johann-Dietrich Wörner.