Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-12 — 63rd International Astronautical Congress

E1. SPACE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SYMPOSIUM

This symposium deals with activities, methods and techniques for formal and informal space education at different educational levels, space outreach to the general public, space workforce development, etc. Each of the sessions in the symposium features an invited key note speaker followed by presentation of selected papers. Symposium sessions may also include panel discussions. When submitting abstracts for consideration, please note that: • Papers should have clear education or outreach content – technical details of projects, even if carried out in an educational context, will not usually qualify. • Papers reporting on programmes/activities that have already taken place will usually be received more favourably than those dealing with concepts and plans for the future. • More weight will usually be given to papers that clearly identify target groups, benefits, lessons-learned, good practice and that include measures of critical assessment. • Papers covering topics/activities which have been reported at a prior IAC must state this explicitly and detail both the additional information to be presented and the added value that will result.

Coordinator: Chris Welch
— France

E1.1. Ignition - Primary Space Education

This session will focus on all aspects of primary space education, i.e. up to a student age of 11.

Chairman

Shamim Hartevelt-Velani
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands

Gulnara T. Omarova
Astrophysical Institute — Kazakhstan

Rapporteur: Chris Welch
— France

E1.2. Lift Off - Secondary Space Education

This session will focus on all aspects of secondary space education, for students of age 12-18.

Chairman

Shamim Hartevelt-Velani
European Space Agency (ESA) — The Netherlands

Dennis Stone
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Johnson Space Center — United States

Rapporteur: Vera Mayorova
Bauman Moscow State Technical University — Russian Federation

E1.3. On Track - Undergraduate Space Education

This session will focus on all aspects of undergraduate space education.

Chairman

Naomi Mathers
Space Industry Association of Australia — Australia

Marilyn Steinberg
Canadian Space Agency — Canada

Rapporteur: Olga Zhdanovich
Modis — The Netherlands

E1.4. In Orbit - Postgraduate Space Education

This session will focus on all aspects of (post)graduate space education.

Chairman

Angela Diaz Phillips
— United States

David Spencer
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

Rapporteur: Olga Zhdanovich
Modis — The Netherlands

E1.5. Enabling the Future - Developing the Space Workforce

This session will focus on the challenges, opportunities and innovative approaches to developing the current and future global space workforce.

Chairman

Annalisa Weigel
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) — United States

Olga Zhdanovich
Modis — The Netherlands

Rapporteur: Amalio Monzon
Airbus Defence and Space — Spain

E1.6. Calling Planet Earth - Space Outreach to the General Public

This session will focus on activities that aim to promote awareness and understanding of space in the general public.

Chairman

Valerie Anne Casasanto
NASA Goddard/University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) — United States

Carol Christian
STScI — United States

Rapporteur: Gulnara T. Omarova
Astrophysical Institute — Kazakhstan

E1.7. New Worlds - Innovative Space Education and Outreach

This session will focus on novel and non-standard methods of space education and outreach in non-traditional areas and to non-traditional target groups.

Chairman

Jean-Daniel Dessimoz
— Switzerland

Vera Mayorova
Bauman Moscow State Technical University — Russian Federation

Rapporteur: Carol Christian
STScI — United States

E1.8. Space Culture: Innovative Approaches for Public Engagement in Space

This session is co-sponsored by the IAF Technical Committee on the Cultural Utilisation of Space (ITACCUS) and will focus on the activities of institutions such as museums, space agencies and non-profit organisations involving space that engage the cultural sector.

Chairman

Frank Friedlaender
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company — United States

Roger Malina
University of Texas at Dallas — United States

Rapporteur: Valerie Anne Casasanto
NASA Goddard/University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) — United States

E1.9. Extended Mission

This additional E1 session will focus on university-level space education and innovative space education and outreach activities.

Chairman

David Cook
University of Alabama in Huntsville — United States

James L. Stofan
— United States

Rapporteur: Chris Welch
— France