Aerospace, New Space & Dual-Use Trade Mission to Toulouse, France

France is Europe’s leading space nation, with the largest public space budget on the continent (around €3 billion annually) and accounting for roughly half of Europe’s space industry turnover. At the heart of this ecosystem is Toulouse – widely recognised as Europe’s space capital.

Toulouse brings together the full value chain in one place: from R&D and manufacturing to satellite integration, operations and data services. The region hosts around 16,000 space jobs and major players such as CNES, Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space, alongside a fast-growing NewSpace ecosystem of startups and scale-ups.

France and Norway are also strengthening their cooperation in this domain. In June 2025, Emmanuel Macron and Jonas Gahr Støre signed a strategic partnership identifying space as a key area for collaboration. This momentum was reinforced on 24 March 2026, when Ministers Cecilie Myrseth and Sébastien Martin signed a renewed letter of intent, once again highlighting space as a priority sector for bilateral cooperation.

For Norwegian companies, this is a unique opportunity to engage directly with one of Europe’s most dynamic and strategic space markets.

Whether you are active in materials, components, subsystems, software, data or applications, Toulouse offers direct access to customers, partners and programmes across the entire value chain. The ecosystem is highly collaborative, with strong links between industry, research and public stakeholders, and growing demand driven by both commercial and sovereign space initiatives.

This mission provides a gateway into the European space industry – offering relevant meetings, market insight and concrete opportunities for partnerships, business development and scaling.

• From 14:00 to 18:00 – Workshops, keynotes and pitch sessions with key stakeholders from across the ecosystem
• 19:00 to 22:00 – Networking cocktail with all participants

• Site visits to Airbus Defence and Space, lunch, and visit of the CNES.

Price: NOK 25,000 for SMEs, NOK 30,000 for large companies exc. VAT. (travel costs are additional.)

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