HyperGES Rounds
4th Round: Open for Applications
4th Round Schedule
Opened for Application: 3 February 2026
Deadline for submitting the Expression of Interest Form:
31 March 2026 23:59 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Deadline for submitting the Application Form:
1 June 2026 23:59 Central European Summer Time (UTC+2)
Announcement of Opportunity Documents
- Announcement of Opportunity (.pdf)
- Expression of Interest form (.docx)
- Application Form template (.docx)
- Evaluation Table (.xlsx)
Reference Materials
- ESA Large Diameter Centrifuge Summary
- LDC Experimenter User Manual
- Examples of past experiments Please see Chapter 9 of the User Manual for more information
- Webinar materials:
HyperGES webinars,
Conducting R&D in Hypergravity/Microgravity Webinar series
Previous Rounds
The 3rd round of HyperGES opportunity opened in May 2023 and closed in November 2023. Team from University of San Carlos and Holy Name University, the Philippines, was selected as the awardee in the 3rd round.
The 2nd round of HyperGES opportunity opened in May 2022 and closed in November 2022. Teams from Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo" of Bolivia and Macau University of Science and Technology of Macao, China, were selected as the awardees in the 2nd round.
The Winner of the 1 st round is the team from Mahidol University, Thailand. The title of the project is "Watermeal, the Future Food Source for Space Exploration", which is to study the effect of hypergravity on watermeal, the smallest and fastest-growing flowering plant on Earth. It will help unlock various possibilities for future application of the plant as a food and oxygen source for space exploration and on the other planet which may have higher gravity than on Earth.