What’s new in the ESA Academy programme?
The ESA Academy programme (18+ y/o) is to complement the education of young adults to enhance their competencies and skills and eventually increase their employability in the space sector and beyond. With the evolved ESA Academy, we will maintain core heritage elements such as the highly qualifying training model based on courses and project-based learning for university students studying STEM subjects, but we are going to offer much more.
- We are adding training models to our portfolio, including challenges, hackathons, projects on downstream space applications and a more flexible approach to the use of our experiments and satellite platforms
- We are introducing new training methods, such as e-learning and highly qualifying interdisciplinary trainings, also for a more personalised learning experience
- We are adding new audiences: technicians (e.g. professional bachelors, vocational training), students and graduates from non-STEM backgrounds (business, law, agriculture, architecture, and more), and in the future also young graduates and early-career professionals
- We will cover additional subject domains and topics such as cybersecurity, AI, coding, climate & environment, space safety & security, quantum science and technologies, downstream & business applications, etc
- We are setting structured engagement models with academia and industry, and with all areas of ESA expertise, to achieve both training objectives but also higher inspiration and engagement levels
- We aim at offering more opportunities, for a considerably higher number of participants.
