The UK Galileo Masters Competition opens next month, to identify applications and technologies for Galileo, the European GPS-like satellite navigation system due to operate in 2008.

There are two events, one at EADS Astrium in Stevenage on May 9, and one the next day in Nottingham University. Dates for workshops in Cardiff, Edinburgh and Portsmouth are to be announced.

Entries will be accepted from May 1 to June 30 and the winner will go on to the European competition, said Helen Ashby, spokeswoman for Hertfordshire Business Incubation Centre which is co-ordinating the UK competition.

Speakers at the launch included, across from the top left: Richard Peckham, EADS Astrium; Richard Bergander, Billing Components; Dr Derek Harris, HBIC; Christian Stammel, Galileo Masters; and Thorsten Rudolph, Galileo Masters. Then the front row: Lyn Dutton, Thales; Adam Tucker, HBIC; Colin Paterson, Cobra Telematics; and Anton Mayer, Nechneo.

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