Catalog

Technical programme

IAC-16 — 67th International Astronautical Congress

E1. SPACE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SYMPOSIUM

This symposium explores best practice and innovative approaches to space education at all levels. It also considers activities, methods and techniques for informal education, outreach to the general public and workforce development. Each year the symposium will commence with a key note address by the winner of the IAF Frank J. Malina Astronautics Medal. This award recognizes the outstanding contribution to space education by an educator who promotes the study of astronautics and space science. When submitting abstracts for consideration, please note that: • Papers should have clear education or outreach content. • Emphasis should be placed on evaluating the learning outcomes of a project, and how these learning outcomes were achieved and evaluated. • Authors are encouraged to clearly identify target groups, benefits, lessons-learned, good practice and include measures of critical assessment • 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 be given preference over papers dealing with concepts and plans for the future. • 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 this represents.

Coordinator

Lisa Antoniadis
Astrocast SA — Switzerland

Naomi Mathers
Space Industry Association of Australia — Australia

E1.1. Ignition - Primary Space Education

This session will explore innovative programs for students up to the age of 11 conducted within the formal education system. Emphasis will be placed on programs that effectively engage primary school students in STEM, develop key skills, and foster a long-term passion for space. This session will also consider programs and activities that develop effective and inspirational primary school teachers.

Co-Chair

David Cook
University of Alabama in Huntsville — United States

Kaori Sasaki
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) — Japan

Rapporteur: Ian Christie
Victorian Space Science Education Centre — Australia

E1.2. Lift-Off - Secondary Space Education

This session will explore innovative programs for students aged 11 to 18, conducted within the formal education system. Emphasis will be placed on programs that effectively engage secondary school students in STEM, develop key skills, and foster a long-term passion for space. This session will also consider programs and activities that develop effective and inspirational secondary school teachers.

Co-Chair

Ian Christie
Victorian Space Science Education Centre — Australia

Andrea Jaime
Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH — Germany

Rapporteur: David Cook
University of Alabama in Huntsville — United States

E1.3. On Track - Undergraduate Space Education

This session will explore innovative programs for undergraduate students. This can include the development and delivery of innovative courses, project-based work, and work placements. Emphasis should be placed on how the program is structured for maximum impact, how the impact is measured and how the lessons learned are being applied to other courses.

Co-Chair

Hubert Diez
CNES — France

Lisa Antoniadis
Astrocast SA — Switzerland

Rapporteur: Michal Kunes
— Czech Republic

E1.4. In Orbit - Postgraduate Space Education

This session will explore innovative programs for postgraduate students. This can include the development and delivery of innovative courses, project-based work, and work placements. Emphasis should be placed on how the program is structured for maximum impact, how the impact is measured and how the lessons learned are being applied to other courses.

Co-Chair

Emmanuel Zenou
Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE) — France

Franco Bernelli-Zazzera
Politecnico di Milano — Italy

Rapporteur

Thierry Dana-Picard
Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) — Israel

David Spencer
The Aerospace Corporation — United States

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.

Co-Chair

Amalio Monzon
Airbus Defence and Space — Spain

Olga Zhdanovich
Modis — The Netherlands

Rapporteur

Edward J. Hoffman
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) — United States

Bettina Boehm
European Space Agency (ESA) — France

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

This session will focus on activities, programs and strategies for engaging the general pubic. This session does not include programs that are conducted within the formal education system.

Co-Chair

Thierry Dana-Picard
Jerusalem College of Technology (JCT) — Israel

Kerrie Dougherty
— Australia

Rapporteur: Frank Friedlaender
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company — United States

E1.7. New Worlds - Non-Traditional 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. This session does not include programs that are conducted within the formal education system.

Co-Chair

Vera Mayorova
Bauman Moscow State Technical University — Russian Federation

Olga Zhdanovich
Modis — The Netherlands

Rapporteur: Carol Christian
STScI — United States

E1.8. Open Space: Participatory Space Education and Outreach

This session will focus on the involvement and participation of target groups in space education and outreach-related activities which are internet - or digitally mediated or reply on an “open source” approach, e.g. hackathons, unconferences, barcamps, etc. This session does not include programs that are conducted within the formal education system.

Co-Chair

Kerrie Dougherty
— Australia

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

Rapporteur: Andrea Jaime
Isar Aerospace Technologies GmbH — Germany

E1.9. Space Culture –Public Engagement in Space through Culture

This Session is co-sponsored by the IAF Technical Committee on the Cultural Utilization of Space (ITACCUS) and will focus the activities of institutions such as museums, space agencies and non-profit organizations involving space that engage the cultural sector. This session does not include programs that are conducted within the formal education system

Co-Chair

Nelly Ben Hayoun-Stépanian
SETI Institute — United Kingdom

Lisa Antoniadis
Astrocast SA — Switzerland

Rapporteur: Nahum Romero
KOSMICA — Germany

E1.IP. Interactive Presentations

Authors with an abstract accepted for an interactive presentation will be asked to prepare slides and display them for the duration of the congress on plasma screens. Authors will be assigned to interactive sessions in which they must be near the plasma screens to engage in interactive discussions with other congress attendees.

Coordinator

Lisa Antoniadis
Astrocast SA — Switzerland

Chris Welch
— France