ACTIVITIES

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites 20 innovative developers with experience in app development to apply for the Space App Camp, organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) between 4 and 12 May 2014, in Noordwijk (near Amsterdam), the Netherlands. The Space App Camp is an opportunity to spend a week with like-minded people, learn how to integrate satellite data into mobile applications, and gain insight into ESA's work.

The participants in the Space App Camp will be selected based on the creativity of their previous works with regard to content, usability, design, and the underlying business concepts. Those interested will need to include links to published apps (Android or iOS platforms) and other references in their applications.

During the Space App Camp, the participants will be provided with access to satellite data designed to help them develop mobile applications in five predefined categories

Last October, ESA’s Education Office, in collaboration with the Norwegian Centre for Space-related Education (NAROM), invited high school students to enter the 2014 European CanSat Competition.
The National College of Computer Science from Piatra Neamt and The Carmen Sylva High School from Eforie Sud, Romania, have been selected to take part in the launch campaign, which will be hosted at the Andøya Rocket Range in Norway, 1-5 June 2014.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites you to join the ESA competition “Wake Up Rosetta”, an international video shout-out to celebrate the end of 31 months of deep-space hibernation endured by ESA’s comet-chasing Rosetta, which will soon be getting ready to meet its target: comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
This competition invites you to mark this important milestone in the Rosetta mission by sharing a video clip of you shouting “Wake up, Rosetta!”. You can upload your video clip and share it with the world via ESA’s dedicated Facebook page.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) encourages Romanian university students to take part in the second round of ESEO lecture courses, organised by ESA’s Education Office between 3-15 February 2014 in Bertinoro, Italy (10 km away from Forlì). Ten scholarships will be offered to support the participating students for costs associated with the training course, accommodation, meals, and travel. The deadline for application is 1 December 2013.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites children aged 8-12 to train like an astronaut! ESA has teamed up with NASA and other space agencies to invite schoolchildren to learn what it takes to be an astronaut as part of the "Mission X: Train like an Astronaut!" campaign.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites teams of Romanian university students to submit proposals for hypergravity experiments for the next “Spin Your Thesis!” campaign which will take place in the autumn of 2014.

ESA’s Spin Your Thesis! (SYT) programme gives undergraduate and postgraduate students a rare opportunity to design and conduct experiments that need hypergravity, as part of their syllabus.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites Romanian university student teams to take part in the "Drop Your Thesis!" competition organised by the European Space Agency and addressed to all ESA Member States and Cooperating States.

Agenţia Spaţială Română (ROSA) îi invită pe toţi iubitorii spaţiului să participe la seria de evenimente desfășurate cu ocazia ediţiei Săptămânii Mondiale a Spaţiului Cosmic, care va avea loc în perioada 4-10 octombrie 2013. Ediția din anul acesta are ca temă explorarea planetei Marte, sub egida "Explorând Planeta Marte, Descoperind Planeta Pământ".

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites Romanian students to participate in the 2013 edition of the "Cassini Scientist for a Day" competition, launched by the European Space Agency (ESA).
The Cassini-Huygens mission is an international endeavour between NASA, ESA, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI). In 2004, after a journey of nearly seven years the spacecraft, comprising NASA's Cassini orbiter and ESA's Huygens probe, was the first to enter orbit around Saturn. The spacecraft is currently still in orbit around Saturn providing scientists with an abundance of information about the giant planet and its moons.

The European Space Agency (ESA), opens the opportunity for university students from the ESA Member States and Cooperating States to fly experiments high into the stratosphere or even to the edge of space.

Up to 10 teams will be selected to fly a balloon experiment during autumn 2014 or a rocket experiment in spring 2015. The experiments will be carried on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons launched from the Esrange Space Center in Northern Sweden.

If you are a university student from Poland, Czech Republic or Romania and you would like to be on the space scene when the first Copernicus’ Sentinel-1 satellite starts monitoring the Earth next year, apply for the new ESA ‘Sentinel-1 Student Transponders’ project.
The project consists in redesigning Earth-based ESA satellite transponders to communicate with the Sentinel-1 satellite once it has started its mission in space.

"Yuri's Night" at anniversary

As in previous years, the Romanian Space Agency coordinates "Yuri's Night" in Romania. This event celebrates worldwide the first flight of a man in space - Yuri Gagarin - on 12April 1961.

This year, Yuri's Night has a special significance, fulfilling the first 50 years since this event has opened new horizons for humanity.