The ESA Education Programme

ESERO meeting, 4 July2016eTwinning Live 06 December 2016

Antoine HUBERT, ESA Education Office

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ESA = European Space AgencyIt designs, coordinates, implements the space

programme for Europe

What is ESA?

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22 Member States

ESA has 22 Member States: 20 states of the EU (AT, BE, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, IT, GR, HU, IE, LU, NL, PT, PL, RO, SE, UK) plus Norway and Switzerland.

Cooperation Agreements with: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia. Discussions are ongoing with Croatia.

Cooperation Agreement with Canada

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Space, according to ESA

ESA is one of the few space agencies in the world to combine responsibility in nearly all areas of space activity.

space science

telecommunications

human spaceflight exploration

earth observation launchers navigation

operations technology

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Education at ESA: a mandatory activity

“To provide for and promote, for exclusively

peaceful purposes, cooperation among

European states in space research and

technology and their space applications and

ensure the execution of fundamental

activities from which education.”

(Art. II, ESA Convention)

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ESA’s strenghts in education

• Space is a modern myth – a unique motivational context for the study of

STEM subjects innovative learning environment

• ESA is a source of unique and multidisciplinary scientific knowledge – it

can play a unique role to both transmit this knowledge and the way it is

acquired

• ESA provides access to space data,

facilities, experts

• ESA has an international collaborative

dimension by definition, where

scientific knowledge is produced by

creativity, skills, motivation, partnership

and dialogue beyond frontiers

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There is NO STEM curricular subject that:

•is not covered by a space discipline

•cannot be linked to a space example

•cannot be linked to an ESA mission

•cannot be linked to a space career

ESA’s strenghts in education

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ESA education: a diversified approach

Space is the subject

ESA ACADEMY

Hands-on space projects

•Satellite projects

•Scientific instrumentation and experimentation

•Technology demonstration experiments

+

Training & Learning programme

•Courses, lectures and workshops by ESA & space experts

•Participation to conferences

School pupils & teachers UniversitiesSpace is the context

Formal education, right into the schools, with:

o teacher training o classroom activities to

support the curriculum in an innovative way

o European challenges learning to think, learning to do, learning to collaborate

Informal education

PRIMARY & SECONDARYEDUCATION ACTIVITIES

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European Space Education Resource OfficeESA’s main project in support of school education

ESERO

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Nordic ESERO (NO, SE, FI, DK)

ESERO Portugal

ESERO Ireland

ESERO UK

ESERO Belgium

ESERO NL

ESERO Romania

Operational

ESERO Poland

Preparation on-going!

ESERO Czech Republic

ESERO Austria,

ESERO Germany

ESERO Greece

ESERO Italy

Interest received

ESERO Spain

ESERO France

ESERO Hungary

ESERO Luxemburg

ESERO Switzerland

ESERO – a growing network

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The number of teachers and students who have benefitted from ESERO activities has steadily grown and the overall impact of the activities has reached a level which far exceeds that which ESA could have achieved alone:

More than 5000 teachers trained and 150 000 pupils reached in 2015

The ESERO impact

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ESA Teacher training

ESA Summer Teacher Workshop

•Where/When: ESTEC, Summer (early July)

•Who: primary and secondary teachers

Objectives: learn how to use space to teach

STEM, learn about ESA, space and ESA/ESERO’s

education offer

ESTEC Open Day – ESA Teacher conference

•Where/When: ESTEC, early Oct

•Who: primary and secondary teachers

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e-robotics lab

•Where/When: Redu, every school year Who:

secondary/primary STEM teachers Objectives:

learn how to use space robotics to teach STEM

• practical workshops – showcase of new

ESA resources

• networking opportunity

• kick-off of pilot/test phase for new

resources

ESA Teacher training

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ESA/SpaceAwe/GTTP Space Education Inter. Workshop

•Where/When: NL, Autumn (18-22 Oct 2016)

•Who: primary and secondary STEM teachers

•Objectives: get inspired by space and astronomy, use space

data in the classroom for STEM teaching

ESA-GTTP Galileo Teacher Training Workshop ESA Teacher training

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• Target: secondary school students

• Learning objectives: scientific enquiry,

technology, science, basic engineering skills, team

work

• 2016 European CanSat Competition

• Launch campaign: 22-25 June 2016 in Torres

Vedras (Portugal)

• 14 students teams

First prize: Portugal

Second prize: Germany, girls only

Third prize: Ireland

• 2017 European CanSat Competition

• Guidelines and call for proposal published

soon

ESA competitions - Cansats

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ESA competitions - Cansats

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Coming upCanSat 2016

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ESA competitions - Zero Robotics

Zero Robotics - Spheres

In collaboration with NASA and MIT (US)

Challenge: creating computer codes to

manoeuvre the Spheres on the ISS

Target: secondary school students

Learning objectives: scientific enquiry, ICT,

technology, physics/maths, team work

2016-2017 competition:

- Final selection in December 2016

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ESA competitions - Mission X

Collaboration with NASA

Challenge: help AstroCharlie get to the Moon by

keeping fit and learning about good nutrition

Target: primary school children

Learning objectives: scientific enquiry, exercise,

health, nutrition

• 2015 competition:

- campaign Winter-Spring

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European pilot in 2016-2017: based on UK, Tim

Peake mission, 2015-2016

Concept: Conceive a science investigation and write

a code to run it

Target: under 16 y/o

Learning objectives: working scientifically, coding,

physics

Tool: Astro-Pi on the ISS – a small computer with a

set of sensors (movement, humidity, temperature,

pressure), an IR camera, a visible camera

1 Challenge with two missions

Classroom resources (EN, FR, IT, PT, PL) &

teacher training planned (ESERO (PT, PL and UK)

+ France + Italy)

Webinar(s) (EN) planned in December – January

NEW: First European Astro-pi challenge 2016-2017

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Astro Pi - Kit

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Phase 1

•4 Oct – 13 Nov 2016: registration and submission of mission plan by school

teams

•25 Nov 2016: announcement of selected teams, publication of classroom

activities and distribution of kits

Phase 2

•25 Nov 2016 – 28 Feb 2017: discover Astro-pi and submit your code

•15 Mar 2017: announcement of winning codes (at least 1 per country)

•Mar – May 2017: codes run on ISS (control from ground)

•15 May: publication of results; Thomas Pesquet comments from orbit

(registered video message)

Astro-pi competition timeline

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• Primary + secondary levels, project-type activity

• Progressive learning:

o Understanding the science behind Earth

phenomena (ice melting, change of state, green-

house effect, the water cycle…)

o Select a theme: Climate, Land & cities, Forests,

Seas and Oceans, Rivers & lakes, Atmosphere…..

o Make and present a group project: identify a

problem/environmental issue and propose a

solution; use of EO data/products; citizen

science approach?

NEW: First Earth Detectives European school challenge 2017-2018

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Tim Peake – Principia mission (with UKSA) educational activities well advanced

Thomas Pesquet – Proxima mission (with CNES) educational activities being prepared/designed:

o CERES, CrISStal, CatalISS school experiments in orbit

o Astro Pi teacher training in France

Paolo Nespoli – Vita mission (ASI mission)o LISS e-book, YiSS biology experiment

o Astro Pi teacher training in Italy in Autumn 2016

o 1 international IFC with selected ESEROs (teachers and students)

Alexander Gerst mission (with DLR)

oPreparation about to start

Astronaut educational campaigns

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Paxi: the ESAKids & Education alien mascot!

• Born to explain space to kids

• Calendar of presence to all

major ESA & space events

• Becoming the ESA mascot!!!

• Adult followers as well…

Juniors: learn with fun

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ESAkids: the most visited ESA web site

Juniors: learn with fun

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On the ISSOn the ISS

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Rosetta, Philae landingAt Rosetta comet landing

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ESA Education links

• Contact: teachers@esa.int

• Education web portal: www.esa.int/education

• ESERO: www.esa.int/esero

• Education on facebook: facebook.com/ESAEducation

• Education on twitter: @ESA_Education

• Education on flickr: ESA_events

• ESAKids web portal: www.esa.int/kids

• ESAkids facebook and twitter pages:

PaxiESAKids, #Paxi_ESAKids

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Thank you

www.esa.int/education