session 5

Title

Enabling the Future: Developing the Space Workforce

type

oral

Description

This session will focus on the challenges, opportunities and innovative approaches to developing the current and future global space workforce. The work presented in this session may include but is not limited to formal professional development and accreditation programmes and professional development activities by companies, nonprofits and other actors. When submitting abstracts for SEOC sessions, please: • Clearly identify the connection to the session’s described scope and to space. • Briefly describe what you will present, including results and evaluation of your work, if it has been completed, or a thorough description of the expected outcomes of the work. • Include information about what makes your work unique, original or innovative and worth sharing with the international space community. • State your work’s goal, the intended audience, the measurable objectives that were set, and if the work is in planning or has already occurred. • Provide context describing the research and/or analysis you conducted in choosing the purpose of the activity, the intended audience, and the design of the activity. • Include reference to quantitative or qualitative data gathered through evaluations, surveys or other means. • If any theories are developed, please include information about the practical applicability of the information. • Consider that your audience is international and focus on what others working in the field can learn from your work. Include lessons learned, recommendations or other takeaway messages. • Make sure that the abstract provides a coherent idea or narrative for someone unfamiliar with your work.

IPC members

• Co-Chair: Ms. Kathleen Coderre, Lockheed Martin (Space Systems Company), United States;

• Co-Chair: Ms. Olga Zhdanovich, Modis, The Netherlands;