European Space Agency - Fly your Thesis! 2011 call for proposals

05. Juli 2010

The Fly Your Thesis! programme gives university students the possibility to fly their scientific experiment in microgravity, as part of their Masters thesis, PhD thesis or research programme, by participating in a series of parabolic flights.

ESA is inviting European university students to fly their experiments in microgravity on the Airbus A300 Zero-G aircraft. To join the ESA “Fly your Thesis!” programme, each team of students will have to design a scientific or technology experiment to be performed in microgravity, as part of their master's or PhD thesis or research programme.

Interested teams should register on ESA's Education Office's Projects Portal and upload their outline proposals using the letter of intent template, by 12 July 2010. A letter of endorsement from a professor or academic supervisor is required. Proposals by teams from ESA's Cooperating States are also encouraged. A review board will select up to 20 teams who will be invited to elaborate on their scientific proposal, with the support of a scientific mentor. The teams will present their projects to a review board during a dedicated workshop at an ESA centre in February 2011. After this initial workshop, up to four teams will be selected to develop and carry out their experiment at an ESA Microgravity Research Campaign that will take place in Bordeaux, France, during the spring of 2012.

Find out how to participate on: http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Fly_Your_Thesis/SEMXGOEMKBF_0.html