Save the Date: Back to School 2024-2025 with ESA
With a new school year just around the corner, it's time to choose which projects to carry out in the classroom. Discover ESA's exciting school projects and unique teacher trainings opportunities. Use space to infuse fun into your lessons for out-of-this world STEM classrooms!
School Projects
Every year, ESA and its national ESERO offices run international school projects that engage students in multidisciplinary missions, just like in real-world space activities. Through these projects, students can expand their knowledge of curricular STEM subjects and develop new skills and competences.
Explore the inspiring projects on offer this year in the overview chart below.
| Project | Sub-category | Suggested for | Description | Registration opens |
| Climate Detectives | Climate Detectives | up to 19 years old | Investigate a local climate or environmental problem using Earth Observation data. | 9 September 2024 |
| Climate Detectives Kids | up to 12 years old | Complete Earth Sciences related activities and collect badges. | 9 September 2024 | |
| Moon Camp | - | up to 19 years old | Design a future space habitat for astronauts. | 10 September 2024 |
| Mission X | - | up to 14 years old | Learn the key elements to keeping fit and staying healthy in space and on Earth. | 11 September 2024 |
| Astro Pi | Mission Zero | up to 19 years old (recommended primary) | Write a simple computer program to take a reading using a sensor on one of the Astro Pi computers on board the ISS and display a personalised picture for the astronauts. | 16 September 2024 |
| Mission Space Lab | up to 19 years old (recommended secondary) | Write a computer program to measure as accurately as possible the speed that the International Space Station (ISS) is travelling. | 16 September 2024 | |
| CanSat | - | 14 to 19 years old | Design, build and launch a small satellite. | 17 September 2024 |
By participating in Climate Detectives, Moon Camp, Mission X, Astro Pi and CanSat, your students can learn about Earth’s environment, design an off-world base, train like an astronaut, program a computer onboard the International Space Station, or develop a “micro-satellite”.
Stay tuned for more details on each school project coming in September!
For a full timeline of each school project visit the individual project page.
Teacher training opportunities
This school year, ESA and its national ESERO offices are here to offer teachers and educators a selection of training opportunities. Our mission is to support you with inspiring and innovative STEM classroom practices. During the trainings you will discover how the context of space and a range of educational tools and real scientific data can be used to boost the interest and literacy of your pupils in STEM subjects and help them develop the fundamental skills and competences required by school curricula today.
Are you a primary or secondary school teacher or educator from an ESA Member States, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovakia, and Slovenia and looking for an international teacher training experience? Register in one of our ESA-led 'Teach with Space’ training sessions at the e-technology lab, our teacher training facility at ESEC/Galaxia in Belgium. Find the current ESA international teacher training opportunities here.
If you are up for exciting training sessions in your own country or looking for STEM classroom activities that match your national curriculum and in your own language, explore and contact your national ESERO office here: European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) .