You still have a chance to participate in the Drop Your Thesis! 2015 programme

The deadline for the microgravity Drop Your Thesis! 2015 - programme has been extended to 1 February 2015 so that as many students as possible have the chance to apply for this opportunity. The chosen team will spend two weeks at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), Bremen, Germany, using the drop tower.

This is a unique facility in Europe and has been referred to as Germany’s antigravity machine. It is a tower, 146 metres in height. By allowing experiments to fall freely inside, it can provide up to 9.3 seconds of microgravity conditions in the catapult mode, as if the experiment had been taken into space.

The chosen student team will work onsite with engineers from ZARM and ESA, who will help them set-up their experiments and get the most out of their allotted time. The ZARM workshops will also be available to the teams for essential last minute tweaks and tune-ups.

The team will be awarded five uses of the drop tower. There will be a day between each of these ‘launches’ to allow  the students some time to work on the data and decide on what to do for the next one.

Interested teams from ESA Member States and Cooperating States* interested in participating in this unique opportunity, should submit their applications to dropyourthesis @ esa.int  

The conditions to apply and the eligibility criteria can be found here.

If you want to have a look at what a Drop Your Thesis! campaign looks like, watch the below video or read the overview.

* ESA Member States
Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Canada (Associate Member).
European Cooperating States
Estonia, Hungary, Slovenia, Latvia
Cooperating States
Cyprus, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia