Live on 14 June: In-flight call with ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti

During this in-flight call students and teachers will ask Samantha to perform simple experiments and ask questions related to the theme ‘Marvellous Microgravity”.

A livestream of the entire event, including the introductions from each country before the in-flight call, can be viewed below.

The livestream event will start at 14:33 CEST. The in-flight call will start at around 15:00 CEST and will last 20 minutes.

National events are being organised by the local European Space Education Resource Office(ESERO)s: ESERO Italy, ESERO Portugal, and ESERO Luxembourg. Live connections will be made to events taking place at the National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Italy, the Knowledge Pavilion in Lisbon, Portugal, and Luxembourg Science Centre in Differdange, Luxembourg, connecting primary and secondary school teachers and students across the respective countries.

The in-flight call with Samantha Cristoforetti is part of a wide range of educational activities delivered by ESA and the ESERO project across Europe. Currently, there are ESEROs operating in 20 ESA Member States. ESA’s ESERO project is a collaboration between ESA, national space agencies and national and local educational partners.

ESERO is ESA's flagship project in support of primary and secondary education in Europe. The project uses the inspirational power of space, and the immense wealth of knowledge and competences generated by it, to boost the teaching and learning of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) disciplines at large. ESERO aims to enhance school pupils’ literacy and competence in STEM-related subjects through activities, tailored to national curricular, needs and context, that include training for teachers, innovative classroom materials, information about STEM careers, as well as access to roles models from national space industry and academia.