ACTIVITIES

During 9-11 May 2014, EUROAVIA Bucharest (The European Association of Aerospace Engineering Students) and the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) are organising the Rocket Workshop 2014, a model rocket competition which is dedicated exclusively to all the educational levels students at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Polytechnic University of Bucharest.
The 50 participants in the competition were asked to build and launch a model rocket, but only after the had accomplished the three stages of the contest.
The first part, the theoretical one, had been already held at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering on 9 May and included the actual teaching of computing concepts and designing a model rocket.

Earth Day is celebrated internationally today, 22 April. This annual event aims to draw attention towards the necessity to protect the environment. Celebrated for the first time in 1970, today Earth Day is organised in more than 190 countries. This year, two events will take place in Romania: at the Carpathian-Danubian Centre for Geoecology in Bucharest and at the Mihai Eminescu school in Roman. More details about Earth Day can be read here.

Under the guidance of the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) and the West University of Timisoara, 30 students of the "Constantin Diaconovici Loga" National College participated in the "Scoala Altfel" at a cans camp. The project was realized with the financial support of the Commission for Culture, Education, Youth and Sport of the Timis County Council, with logistics input from SIVECO Romania and the European Space Agency (ESA).

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites you on Friday, 11 April, to attend the presentation by a representative of ISU (International Space University) on the possibility of accessing professional development programs (MA, MBA, summer schools, scholarships) for various disciplines related to space programs, space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy, space law, business and management, and space and society.

Every year, between April 4th and 12th, the earthlings are invited to celebrate "Yuri's Night", an event dedicated to commemorating the first flight of a human being - Yuri Gagarin - into  the outer space, as well as the first flight of a Space Shuttle. Both events took place on April 12th, at a distance of 20 years - 1961 and 1981.

The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) invites secondary school teachers to take part in the summer workshop organised by the European Space Agency (ESA) between 21-25 July 2014 at its European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

The workshop is open to teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics related subjects in secondary schools (students 12 – 18 years old) of ESA Member States and priority will be given to teachers who have not participated in previous ESA teacher workshops. The language of the workshop will be English.

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.