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Space station Utilisation Contest Calls for European Student initiativeS
SUCCESS is a competition for European university students* from all disciplines to propose an experiment that could fly on board the International Space Station (ISS).
* Up to Masters level or equivalent
The goal of the competition is to make today's students the International Space Station users of tomorrow. The first prize of the competition is a one-year internship at ESA's space research and technology centre, ESTEC, in the Netherlands. At ESTEC, the winner of the contest can work on his/her experiment with the possibility of qualifying it for flight to the International Space Station.
A new SUCCESS Student Contest is currently foreseen for 2010.
Research areas
The competition is certainly not only for space engineering or astronomy students. A lot of research is being conducted in other fields, such as:
- Life sciences
- Physical sciences
- Space sciences
- Technology
- Earth observation
Note that SUCCESS also encourages proposals from your field of interest, which could be a different discipline to the 'traditional' ones that are mentioned above!
Just imagine how the International Space Station environment (absence of gravity effects, the vacuum of outer space, the high altitude above the Earth, the isolated environment for the astronauts) could benefit something that you want to investigate.
ISS Education Fund
SUCCESS is supported by the International Space Station Education Fund (ISSEF) - see http://www.esa.int/issef to read about the fund.
More information
Please read the pages linked in the righthand column of this page for more information about the SUCCESS contest and details about how to enter.
If you have any questions concerning SUCCESS please contact us at success@esa.int.
Last update: 17 June 2009 | 
