# How the EU boosts space startups: CASSINI's Tomas Jonsson

An episode of [Invested by Europe](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1877067448), 18 Oct 2026, 13 min.

Audio: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/6983738692cc2b35f6ad153a/e/6ac7b5cc8f90a39dfcb26c01/media.mp3

Tomas Jonsson leads the Cassini team at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space. It's the EU's space entrepreneurship programme. He describes how Europe's space sector has changed since 2019, with many more companies, real commercial growth and significant private investment. He also talks about the careers the sector offers beyond engineering, and about how companies in Poland, the Czech Republic, Scandinavia and the EU's smaller countries are catching up to the traditional big space economies of Germany, Italy and France. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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