The European Commission published the draft Work Programme 2016-2017 for LEIT-Space in Horizon 2020

Space research is supported in Horizon 2020 under the priority "Industrial Leadership", in line with the main objective and challenge to ensure that space will remain accessible to Europe and safe to operate in the long run.

The work programme has been structured to address these challenges by:

• prioritising the existing two EU Space flagships of European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) and Earth Observation;
• ensuring support for the third programmatic priority of the EU space pol