WINNERS – 2025 MVA Moon Market Annual Award – 3rd Edition

The 2025 MVA Moon Market Annual Awards (3rd edition) were presented during the 9th Global Moon Village Workshop & Symposium. In a special ceremony, MVA President Dr. Giuseppe Reibaldi personally awarded diplomas to the winners in attendance. Everyone including winners unable to attend received their awards electronically, ensuring all honorees were recognized for their achievements.

Due to the exceptional response rate to the 2025 MVA Moon Market Annual Award call for candidates, the nominees have been organized in four sections. This is meant to allow balanced access to the Award by various projects from individual and organizations of diverse background, size, and level of funding.

The four Sections read as follows: Enterprises, Universities & Institutions, Student Teams & Young Entrepreneurs, and Independent Individual Projects.

As for the six Special Award categories in 2025, they are:

Lunar Infrastructure (4 winners)
Lunar Sustainability (2 winners)
Lunar Game Changer (4 winners)
Lunar Security & Safety (2 winners)
Lunar Virtual Reality & Digital Twins (1 winner)
Lunar Stakeholders International Cooperation (1 winner)

with winners spread among above mentioned sections.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR LUNAR INFRASTRUCTURE:

Section: ENTERPRISES

CANADA

Parisa Haji, CEO & Co-founder, Matrix GEMINI Inc.

Project: Lunar Metropolis

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): Habitat, Infrastructure, ISRU, Construction Engineering
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for a uniquely competitive infrastructure process combining eco-smart modular panel assembly, engineered regolith, and autonomous construction sequences.

ITALY

Gabriele Carrozza, CEO, iSaisei Corporation

Project: Oxygen Space – Oxygen Lunar Habitat

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): Habitat, Infrastructure, Life Support Systems
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for a uniquely cost-competitive Hybrid-Inflatable Habitat platform, rapidly deployable and featuring maximized real-estate volume.

Section: STUDENTS TEAMS AND YOUNG ENTREPRENEURS

JORDAN

Mohammad Al-Shrouf, Team Lead, Lunar Energizers Team : Energy Efficiency Trainer – German Jordanian University

Project: Lunar Energizers – “Lunar-based Solar Power Station with Microwave Power Transmission Satellite Orbiter”

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): Power Generation, Infrastructure
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for addressing the Lunar Night with a unique solar power solution combining multi-junction solar cells with a regenerative fuel cell stack.

KENYA

Allan Iteba and Noela Weramundi, Team Lead, University of Nairobi

Project: Lunar Lander Interface

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Infrastructure
Lunar market(s): Transportation, Infrastructure, Environment Control
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for a unique solution to de-risk lunar landings with a controlled environment, mitigating dust contamination and maximizing high-precision, autonomous landings.

SPECIAL AWARD FOR LUNAR SUSTAINABILITY

Section: UNIVERSITIES & INSTITUTIONS

EGYPT

Samer El Sayary, Assistant professor of Architecture, Alexandria University and Beirut Arab University

Project: Pine Flex Lunar Biome

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Sustainability
Lunar market(s): Habitat, infrastructures, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for outstanding creativity in developing lunar habitat and infrastructure solutions that are humanely sustainable.

U.S.A.

James Wertz, President, Microcosm; Adjunct Professor, USC, Microcosm and University of Southern California

Project: Selene: a Near-Term, Low-Cost, High-Income, Commercial and International Lunar Settlement

Award category: Special Award for Lunar Sustainability
Lunar market(s): Habitat, infrastructures, services
Highlights: The company/project is recognized for comprehensively integrating all sustainability building blocks for a commercial settlement on the Moon.