FRANCE – 14TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – TPFS – INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY

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FRANCE – 14TH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM – TPFS – INTERNATIONAL SPACE UNIVERSITY

About ISU: The International Space University provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community at its Central Campus in Strasbourg, France, and at locations around the world. In its two-month Space Studies Program and one-year Masters program, ISU offers its students a unique Core Curriculum covering all disciplines related to space programs and enterprises – space science, space engineering, systems engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society. Both programs also involve an intense student research Team Project providing international graduate students and young space professionals the opportunity to solve complex problems by working together in an intercultural environment.

Introduction: During each academic year, ISU organizes a three-day symposium as an interdisciplinary, international forum to help both the users and the providers of space-related systems move forward from the discussion of problems to the formulation of innovative solutions. The Public Face of Space.
Scope: ISU’s next symposium, the fourteenth in a series of annual events, will address space education and outreach in a very broad way. ‘Education’ should be seen here as developing the full human potential of the broader population, not just attracting young people into studying mathematics and science for the nation’s technical and economic benefit. In the symposium program we shall also include considerations of outreach, public awareness and expectations, as well as workforce development and capacity building, all with the goal of producing recommendations for ways forward towards a sustainable space program. The manner in which we handle the promotion of space activities, and education and public outreach can do much to enhance the ‘sustainability’ of exploration and the long-term investments in space endeavors. Potential economic benefits from space commerce as well as benefits from space environmental studies are therefore important elements that also fit well within this symposium addressing the ‘Public Face of Space’.

Call For Papers: Abstracts of around 300 words are now invited and should be sent to symposium14@isu.isunet.edu by 2nd October clearly indicating the title, authors’ names, affiliations and contact addresses. Please also tell us for which session(s) you are submitting your contribution. We will let you know by 28th October if your contribution has been selected for oral presentation or as a poster. Further instructions will be provided to contributors when the preliminary program is issued in early December.

Closing Date: 2nd October, 2009

Contact:
International Space University
Parc d’Innovation
1 rue Jean Dominique Cassini
67400 Illkirch Graffenstaden
France

Contact Numbers: +33 (0)3 88 65 54 30

Source: http://www.isunet.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=36&Itemid=146