The Space sector is experiencing a strong revival, while simultaneously undergoing a major transformation of its structure and business models, driven by easier access to Space through the development of smaller launchers and satellites, faster and at a lower cost.
The role of traditional actors, including the national Space agencies and large industrial groups, is being redefined, and new actors in academia and other research institutions, and small and medium sized enterprises, have emerged. Rapid growth and profound changes have led to expanding opportunities on the labor market, requiring novel responses from educational organizations.
”These rapid changes are also impacting teaching of undergraduate and graduate level students by providing new opportunities, in particular in the engineering sciences. At the same time, many companies are struggling to hire employees with the required skill sets. The network we want to establish will enable the different partners to learn from each other, as well as to mutualize teaching resources."
During this 18 month project, the team will work together to develop shared seminars towards collective course activities, create a platform for shared hybrid teaching, monitor learning experiences of students and develop assessment strategies and inclusion of hands-on elements to hybrid teaching. The team will also start planning for a European Space Summer School.
“New wave of innovative space technology is helping us to tackle the global challenges and build more sustainable world. European wide collaboration platform in education allows us to reach higher orbits, both figuratively speaking, but also in direct sense,”
Project Partners
The core of the project community consists of Unite! members. It is extended with the addition of other European universities and other stakeholders in the Space technology education field.
- Prof. Jaan Praks, Department of Electronics and nanoengineering, School of Electrical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland
- Prof. Erik Kerstel, Centre Spatial Universitaire de Grenoble (CSUG), France
- Prof. Mathieu Barthelemy, Centre Spatial Universitaire de Grenoble (CSUG), France
- University Lecturer Mykola Ivchenko, Division of Space and Plasma Physics, EECS, KTH, Sweden
- Prof. Leonardo Reyneri, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico de Torino, Italy
- Prof. Adriano Camps, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, UPC-BarcelonaTech, Department of Signal Theory and Telecommunications, Spain
- Prof. Rodrigo Ventura, Institute for Systems and Robotics, Instituto Superior Técnico, ULisboa, Portugal
- Prof. Mihkel Pajusalu and Prof. Andris Slavinskis, Faculty of Science and Technology, Tartu Observatory, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Senior Lecturer, Victoria Barabash, Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna Space Campus, Sweden
- Prof. Rene Laufer, Luleå University of Technology, Kiruna Space Campus, Sweden
- Samuli Nyman, CTO, Arctic Astronautics Ltd., Finland
- Ing Francesco Mosca, CEO of SpaceMorionery s.r.l., Italy