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Workshop 30 January 2019 - 31 January 2019
Columbus Earth Center, Kerkrade, Netherlands

The Ecsite Space Group cordially invites all interested participants to join the Space Group Annual Meeting hosted by the Columbus Earth Center in Kerkrade, the Netherlands, on 30-31 January 2019. Participants can expect two days of energising exchanges, networking and building partnerships.

News 28 September 2018
Participants to the Ecsite Space Group pre-conference workshop visit the Observatory at Sauverny, Department of Astronomy, University of Geneva. Copyright Sylviane Blum CSH University of Bern

A handy summary of space-related sessions at the Ecsite Annual Conference 2018, courtesy of the Ecsite Space Group

News 11 May 2018
Michel Mayor ©Rita Scaglia/University of Geneva & Claude Nicollier

We are thrilled to announce that this year's Ecsite Space Group's pre-conference workshop in at the Ecsite Annual Conference 2018 in Geneva will feature two very exciting speakers from the Swiss Space community: Claude Nicollier, former Swiss ESA astronaut, and Michel Mayor, discoverer of the first extrasolar planet 51 Pegasi b.

Consult the pre-conference workshop programme here.

News 10 January 2018
Participants at the Ecsite Space Group Annual Meeting, 27 November 2017, ESA/ESAC, Spain

Look back to the Space Group's two-day Annual Meeting hosted by ESAC, ESA's European Space Astronomy Centre, in November 2017.

Workshop 27 November 2017 - 28 November 2017
Aerial view of the European Space Astronomy Centre in Villafranca, Madrid, Spain. Copyright ESA - S. Corvaja

The Ecsite Space Group invites you to join its Annual Meeting hosted by the European Space Astronomy Centre, Spain, on 27-28 November 2017

News 12 July 2017

You couldn’t join the Space Group in Porto during the Ecsite Annual Conference 2017? Download our reports to read about two intense days of exchanges and collaborative work aimed at furthering communication about space.

News 12 April 2017

This International Day of Human Spaceflight, the Ecsite Space Group is delighted to announce the launch of an exciting ready-to-use educational resource: “The International Space Station: Living and Working in Space” kit!

News 15 February 2017

As agreed at the Space Group pre-conference workshop held in June 2016 in Graz, Austria, the Annual Meeting 2016 took place at the ESA Astronaut Centre in Cologne on 8-9 December 2016.

News 14 February 2017

The Ecsite Space Group will hold their pre-conference workshop “Space for Life – Develop and share resources" on the 13th and 14th of June 2017 at the Alfândega
Convention Centre in Porto, Portugal.

News 13 December 2016

Following the amazing success of the campaign Hook-up with Rosetta, the space group has been working on preparing a second ready to use toolkit containging an exhibition as well as educational activities! The toolkit will be ready to be downloaded at the end of January 2017.

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