Following the success of the first SpaceUP conference held in Rome, WIA-E is pleased to announce its sponsorship to the next event that will happen in Milan, Italy, on 5-6 November 2016. Hosted at Politecnico di Milano (Dipartimento di Scienze e tecnologie aerospaziali), in via La Masa 34, the event will have the (not so) traditional scheme of the other SpaceUPs around Europe, […]
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Dear Sir, dear Madam, The Student Aerospace Challenge 2016-2017 (http://www.studentaerospacechallenge.eu/) was launched a few days ago and the organisation committee is encouraging applications from all ESA Member States! This challenge proposed by the Astronaute Club Européen (ACE) and its industrial and institutional partners allows university students to participate to the study of a reusable manned suborbital vehicle. In
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Dear WIA-Europe member, We would like to inform you that our first newsletter of 2016, describing activities for the first eight months (Q1&Q2), is now out. Please click here to read more about our general society news, WIA-Europe events and the events organised by our local groups. We hope you enjoy reading. With best regards, The WIA-Europe
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Dear beSpace members, It is with great pleasure that we invite you to our second lecture, devoted to the hidden meaning(s) of space exploration. Once again, we will embrace this large question from three perspectives: philosophy, science, and art. We will be guided through this adventure by Pr. Dominique Lambert, from the University of Namur, Dr. Yaël
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Dear WIA-Europe members, Please click here to read our first newsletter of 2016. Enjoy reading! With best regards, The WIA-Europe Team
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The Sapienza Space Systems and Space Surveillance Laboratory (S5Lab) has organised an event within the “REXUS/BEXUS Programme: hands-on opportunity for aerospace students”, which objective is hands-on opportunity for aerospace students (ESA Educational Programme, for more details see http://www.esa.int/Education/REXUS_and_BEXUS_experiments_selected). The Rome event, held in the morning of 15th July 2016, achieved resounding success. The room was full
Dear WIA-Europe members, Since the foundation of WIA-Europe by myself and Claudia Kessler in 2009, the association has developed in a remarkably successful manner and has today positioned itself as a benchmark organisation for the promotion of equal opportunities for women in the aerospace sector in Europe and beyond. Today, WIA-Europe counts more than 500
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In the morning of the 8th of June 2016, ten young women, members of WIA-E (Women in Aerospace – Europe) had the chance to meet at Villa Pinciana, in Rome, Dr. Ellen Stofan, a planetary scientist, STEM (Pre-Service Teacher Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) advocate and Chief Scientist at NASA, whose studies include the geology
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NASA’s 2016 International Space Apps Challenge is a global contest to create mobile apps and technologies that aid in space exploration and help improve life here on Earth. The fifth annual code-a-thon was held April 22-24 at 161 locations worldwide. More than 15,000 participants took on the challenge of designing solutions for the 25 challenges
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WIA-Europe is pleased to announce that the Call for its 2016 (2nd semester) Grants Programme is OPEN now! Are you interested in applying for a grant to attend an aerospace conference or workshop in 2016? The deadline for submissions for the second semester of 2016 is 30 June 2016. WIA-Europe would like to encourage and support
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