1. The short story about our great adventure…
How
#ESA Educational Programmes
did a great job for
#Poland
Jarosław Jaworski
&
Małgorzata Jackowska
&
Agata Głaba
#SpaceUp #Poland

2. Who are we?
Poland – 20th member state of ESA

3. Who are we?
ESA education - microgravity
Fly Your Thesis
Drop Your Thesis REXUS

4. Who are we?
ESA education - satellites
European Student Moon
SSETI Express Orbiter (ESMO)
YES2 satellite
European Student Earth
Vega Cubesats Campaign
Orbiter (ESEO)

5. Who are we?
ESA education - other
BEXUS SCOPE 2.0 experiment for BEXUS
Spin Your Thesis Spin Your Thesis

6. Who are we?
ESA education - summary
Parabolic Flight + Five experiments
Drop Your Thesis - - microgravity
REXUS - -
SSETI Express + One team
ESEO + Five teams
ESMO + Three teams satellites
YES2 + -
Vega Cubesat + First Polish satellite
BEXUS + Four experiments
GENSO - - general
Spin Your Thesis - -

7. Who are we?
Advantages
• Hands-on experience
• Practical experiences
• Practical ideas for thesis
• Engineering, management, outreach
• Real projects
• Space industry standards (ECSS)
• Review and feedback
• Documentation
• Trainings Disadvantages
• Networking
• Inspiration
• Prolonged time of graduation
• Low ratio of success
• Difficulties with implementing new methodology

8. Who are we?
Goal of the educational projects?
1. Create future space workforce.
2. Inspiration.
3. Outreach.

9. Who are we?
Polish space sector before ~ 2011(major)
Warsaw University of Technology
Space Research Centre
Institute of Aviation
Wroclaw University of Technology

10. Who are we?
Young
Join ESA.
professionals Quickly!
New, local
projects!
Better
projects!
More!
More
ESA projects!
Young professionals

11. Who are we?
Examples of impact New company
(space-related)
Rover for URC Mars
competitions Rover for URC Mars
competitions (winner 2011)
SCOPE 2.0 experiment for BEXUS Rover for NASA Lunar
Sounding rockets competitions
ESA educational project

12. Who are we?
Examples of impact
Penetrator for „Phobos – Grunt”
Instruments for
interplanetary probes
(scientific)
PW-Sat
First Polish satellite
(students)
BRITE-PL
SSETI Express
Two Polish satellites
ESA educational projects (scientific)

13. Who are we?
Examples of impact
Public administration
Research institutes, universities
Companies
Student organizations, non – govermental organizations (NGOs),
young professionals

14. Who are we?
Specialization
Given by programmes:
• Deorbitaton systems
• Small satellites
• Thermal control for satellites
• Satellite structures, mechanics, configuration
• Small rovers
• Satellite robotics, manipulators
• Electronics
• Communication
• Satellites operation
• Sounding rockets
• Stratospheric balloons
National:
• Small satellites
• Small rovers
• Satellite robotics, manipulators
• Electronics

15. Who are we?
Alumnus:
• Master thesis related to space
• Publications related to the projects & experiments
• PhD studies
• Young Graduate Trainees in ESA
•Working on companies
• Applications & services
• Engineering
• Facilitators (blogs, meetings with students)
• Founders o SMEs
• Founders of NGOs
•Working on universities
• Local leaders

16. Who are we?
Conclusions
in case of Polish example:
• It is difficult to estimate the impact of (ESA) educational programmes
• Scientific results are not the best way to measure the impact
• Participation in one project could give an inspiration to start another
• Thanks to students projects ’’space” is closer for public opinion
• Network of alumni withstand for long time
• Alumni think „out of the box” – complete goals faster, better, internationally -
they are great team members for demanding projects
• Many professionals projects could not start without alumni hands-on
experience in space
• It’s easy to develop new ideas in places, where is high number of alumni

17. Who are we?
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