Israel is one of the eight countries within the world space community demonstrating significant technological assets in space programmemes and achievements in GNSS applications, equipment, and the user segment. It has participated in the Galileo programmeme since 2004.

An agreement between the European Union and the State of Israel provides for co-operative satellite navigation and timing activities in various sectors, such as science and technology, industrial manufacturing, and service and market development, as well as standardisation, frequencies, and certification.

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) has a bilateral agreement with MATIMOP for industrial cooperation in research and development. The first GIUS-1 call was launched in 2007. Under GIUS-1, seven research projects started in January 2008. A second GIUS-2 call was launched in 2009. Both individual companies and consortia can participate in GIUS calls, which are managed by MATIMOP in cooperation and coordination with the GSA. The contractual and financial requirements set by the Israeli Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labour (OCS) apply to the proposals.

Consortia are strongly encouraged to involve EU partners. However, EU participants cannot be funded directly by these calls and are encouraged to look for other sources of funding (e.g. Eureka, Eurostars, or bilateral R&D programmemes with Israel,). MATIMOP will advise EU participants on relevant funding schemes (contact: Galileo@matimop.org.il).