Press release – 16.12.2020: Nine IGLUNA students presented the initial phase of their lunar mission “SCALE” to a team of ESA specialists involved in the preparation and assessment of the agency’s future space missions. The mission brings together three experiments developed during the 2020 edition of IGLUNA by students from the universities of Berlin, Aachen and Warsaw. Their goal? To send their experiments by 2028 to the Moon for a 14-day mission.
Latest Press release – 24.11.2020: The IGLUNA platform embarks rovers and space exploration forits third edition. More than 200 university students from nine countries have reachedthe first milestone of IGLUNA 2021. Examined by experts frominternational space agencies and industries, they will have to consolidate their innovative space technologies until July 2021 for the test bed in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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Our Annual Assembly 2020 will take place on the 8 December 2020 in order to present our projects and activities of the past year and give an outlook on the projects planned in 2021. This year, the event is open to our members only.
25-26 November 2020, online. Space4Impact aims to promote New Space technologies and boost the NewSpace ecosystem for a more sustainable future. The event will gather policy makers, investors, NewSpace entrepreneurs. A pitch competition as well as B2B meetings will take place.
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9-10 November, online. The Swiss Space Days offer a platform to exchange experiences and to support cooperation. It is dedicated to Swiss organizations and aims to give an insight into the evolution of the Space activites & related challenges in the next decade with prominent speakers and offers B2B meetings.
Join our online space career events “Be a Star in ESA’s Universe” on Cybersecurity (26.10), Space Law (27.10), Life Support Systems (28.10), Robotics and Photonics (02.11) and Exoplanets (03.11) to meet experts from ESA and swiss space actors !
9-11 October 2020 : Join us at the The Air & Space Days at the Swiss Museum of Transport. The event offers lots of ways of exploring aviation and space travel in all its aspects. The focus is on the world of flight and includes information on becoming a pilot, as well as tours of cockpits and presentations of aircraft.
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Application closed – We are looking for a motivated & dynamic Young Graduate Trainee to complete the Space4Impact team. Duration : 1 September 2020 – 31 January 2021 (6 months)
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On the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory in St-Luc (Valais), the Swiss Space Center has been invited to conduct our paper rocket activity from the 31st of July until the 2nd of August.
10-19 July 2020 : The 15 IGLUNA teams will virtually demonstrate their technologies for a space habitat to sustain life in an extreme environment by remote control, together with public presentations of space experts and special guests.
ESA is now accepting proposals for the next cycle of the REXUS/BEXUS programme (Rocket and Balloon Experiments for University Students). The programme offers flight opportunities on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons for experimental payloads designed and developed by university students. Deadline : 14 October 2020.
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Eleven National Trainee Positions at ESA are now open to young Swiss graduates. Application deadline : 10 June 2020.
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Following the past successful Mesure de Positionnement to promote Swiss competences related to space activities, the Swiss Space Office of the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI/SSO) is again initiating a Call for Proposals. [Extended] Submission Deadline: 5th of May 2020
[Postponed] Wednesday April 8, from 14:00 to 16:30, online on Zoom: Through this event, the UZH Space Hub would like to advise the Space Community about the current space opportunities and funding offered not only by ESA, but also by the Horizon Europe program. With the presence of the Swiss Space Center, Euresearch and ESA BIC experts.
Claude Nicollier’s MOOC “Space Mission Design and Operations” has been updated according to the space sector evolution. Next session : 11th March 2020 on EdX.
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The ESA solar and heliospheric physics mission will be launched on the 8th of February at 5:15 CET. It gathers 10 instruments from all around Europe, to which several of our members such as the FHNW, Almatech SA, PMOD/WRC Davos and RUAG Space, as well as many other Swiss actors contributed.
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The competition is open for primary school pupils living in Switzerland, Norway and Croatia. The winner from each country will have a Galileo satellite named after them. Submission deadline : 31. January 2020.
13 January at UZH : learn more about this new infrastructure launched by Airbus to provide an easier access to ISS for small companies.
On the 13 February 2020, the results achieved by the consortium selected in the frame of our national activity “Mesures de Positionnement” will be presented to the public.
ESA has opened more than 100 positions for Young Graduates.
Registration deadline : 15th of December.
The Austrian Space Applications Programme ASAP invites Swiss actors to participate in the 16th edition of its Call.
Join our space career events “Be a Star in ESA’s Universe” : 5. November 2019 @ HE-Arc, Neuchâtel / 6. November 2019 @USI Lugano / 7. November 2019 @University of Zurich
Join us at our Annual Assembly at the Rolex Learning Center in Lausanne, 3 December 2019
“Mars, Moxie and the Future of Space Exploration”. 23 September at EPFL, Lausanne and 25 September at ETH, Zurich
Register to our new Continuing Education workshop, taking place on the 8-9th of October at EPFL, Switzerland.
30 August – 1 September, ETH and UZH Zürich
Call for application for the National Trainee Programme 2019 is open until 17 June, 1pm. Discover the 15 open positions now !
Save the date ! From the 17 June until the 3 July, visit the project teams in the village of Zermatt and at the Glacier Palace (Klein Matterhorn). This is the unique opportunity to discover the result of their one-year commitment to build a space habitat concept.
The Call for Proposals for IGLUNA 2020 is now open. Pre-selection is open until 31 May. Submit your project and be part of the next edition of the interdisciplinary platform for future Space and Earth technologies !
Register to our Continuing Education workshop on the 5th of June in Dübendorf, in collaboration with Empa.
Call for proposals – the Call for Ideas 2019 is open from March 11th until April 8th 2019.
Register now for the MOOC Space Mission Design and Operations with Prof. Claude Nicollier starting on 13 March 2019.
3 April 2019
20 March 2019 at University of Bern.
Apply now for the International Summer Camps 2019 in China, Russia or Austria.
Our Annual Report 2018 is now published. Enjoy!
After the review process, 10 activities were selected for funding. They start officially on November 1st 2018 and will be concluded on January 31st 2020.
Zurich, 6 December 2018
From 12-14 September 2018, the project teams met in Zurich to start working on IGLUNA. Take a look!