ESA’s SME Unit organised four training courses in 2007 to improve and develop the skills and expertise of SMEs, and to help them meet the challenges of space requirements. All presentations are now available for downloading on ESA’s SME website's training section.

‘Writing a good proposal for an ESA ITT’ and ‘Financing innovative projects’ took place in June and ‘Components Engineering’ and ‘Quality Assurance’ took place in August. All courses were held at ESTEC, Noordwijk in the Netherlands.

Presentations are provided as pdf-documents.

Writing a Good Proposal for an ESA Invitation to Tender

The file ESA-SME-training2007_Writing-a-Good-Proposal.pdf (647 kb) includes the four presentations given at the training course:

• Doing business with ESA – an introductory presentation (25 pages)
• Writing a good technical and contractual proposal response to an ESA Invitation To Tender (ITT) (62 pages)
• Additional information regarding ESA Contracts (15 pages)
• Writing a Good Technical Proposal in Response to an ESA ITT (21 pages)

Financing Innovative Projects

The file ESA-SME-training2007_Financing-Innovative-Projects.pdf (2183 kb) includes the seven presentations given at the training course:

• From R&D to business development: Financing Innovative Projects (2 pages)
• Adding Value to Your R&D Project Value and Securing it (125 page)
• Adding value by focused IPR (20 pages)
• Business Planning: an investor’s overview (31 pages)
• Definitions - Potential sources of financing (9 pages)
• The Investment Process (40 pages)
• Valuation methods and techniques (25 pages)

Components Engineering

The file ESA-SME-training_Components-Engineering.pdf (7342 kb) includes the presentation given at the training course on electronic, electrical and electromechanica (EEE) component engineering:

• EEE Component Engineering Training for Engineers and Procurement Personnel (166 pages)

The file ESA-SME-training2007_Radiation-Engineering.pdf (81913 kb) includes the following presentations given at the training course on radiation engineering methods for space applications:

• The short course team (8 pages)
• Section 1: Course Introduction (4 pages)
• Section 2: Environment (mission) Analysis and Specification (72 pages)
• Section 3: Radiation Effects Analysis:
  • 3-A Radiation Effects Analysis Total Dose (38 pages)
  • 3-B: Radiation Effects and Analysis Displacement Damage (42 pages)
  • 3-C: Radiation Effects Analysis Single Event Effects (24 pages)
• Section 4: Component Characterisation and Testing:
  • 4-A Component Characterisation and Testing Displacement Damage (40 page)
  • 4-B Component Characterisation and Testing Total Dose (38 pages)
  • 4-C Component characterisation and Testing Single Event Effects (36 pages)
• Section 5: Radiation Hardness Assurance for Space Systems:
  • 5-A Radiation Hardness Assurance for Space Systems Component Selection, System Hardening and Counter Measures (72 pages)
  • 5-B Radiation Hardness Assurance for Space Systems: Component Selection, System Handling and Counter Measures for Single Event Effects (32 pages)

Quality Assurance Training Course

The file ESA-SME-training2007_Quality-Assurance.pdf (5371 kb) includes the one presentation given at the training course:

• Quality Assurance for Space Projects (552 pages)