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The Malta Council for Science and Technology are once again offering space education opportunities for students by virtue of Malta’s cooperation agreement with ESA, higher education students who are citizens of Malta and Gozo can now apply to attend one of ESA’s Academy Training Courses.The sponsorships will be used to sponsor eligible tertiary education students to ESA Academy Courses. Please note that eligible applicants are chosen by ESA Academy, following a competitive selection process. MCST’s sponsorship will cover accommodation and meals, as well as up to €300 travel costs to Belgium.
Please note that applications are now open for 2023 editions of ESA Academy’s CubeSat Concurrent Engineering Workshop, Ladybird Guide to Spacecraft Communications Training Course and Clean Space Training Course, which will be held at ESA Education Training Centre, -Galaxia, in Belgium.
More information about these opportunities below:
Dates: 14 – 17 February 2023
Deadline: 8 January 2023, 23:59 CET
Who can apply: 3rd / 4th year Bachelor, Master or PhD students enrolled in a university or higher education institution for the academic year 2022-2023, studying an engineering or science subject, and members of a CubeSat team
This workshop aims at better preparing university student teams that are planning to embark on a CubeSat project or are at the early stages of one.
Guided by ESA systems engineers, the students will learn about concurrent engineering and its benefits, gaining first-hand experience with the Concurrent Model-based Engineering Tool (COMET) and identifying design drivers. Students will be given mission requirements and constraints, then use concurrent engineering to create a CubeSat mission design. Students will also get the opportunity to present their CubeSat project to the other students and ESA experts and be introduced to (FYS) programme.
Dates: 13 – 17 March 2023
Deadline: 9 January 2023, 23:59 CET
Who can apply: Bachelor, Master, or PhD student enrolled in a university or higher education institution, for the academic year 2022-2023, studying an engineering subjectThis training course consists of formal lectures with lots of interaction with the university/tertiary educationstudents and will be provided by an ESA Engineer of ESA's Department. He will relay real stories of operations engineers battling wayward spacecraft – sometimes winning and sometimes losing. The way communications systems are designed can have a crucial impact on how they are used and on what problems can occur!
Dates: 28 – 31 March 2022
Deadline to apply: 23 January 2023, 23:59 CET
Who can apply: Master or PhD students enrolled in a university or higher education institution for the academic year 2022-2023, studying an engineering subject with basic knowledge of space system design
Devised in collaboration between and the , this training course will offer students valuable insight into approaches to consider and reduce the environmental impact across the entire life cycle of a space mission. Lectures offered by ESA experts will focus on how to design a satellite that will not generate debris; will remove defunct satellites and debris already in orbit; and will be environmentally friendly. To apply the gained knowledge, students will undertake in parallel group projects to learn how to design a “clean” satellite.
The Malta Council for Science and Technology (MCST), supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Ministry for Education, Sport, Youth, Research and Innovation (MEYR).
