About the training and learning facility

The TLF is located in the ESA Education Training Centre, ESEC-Galaxia, Belgium and features a training room and an educational Concurrent Design Facility, or CDF. This is an integrated professional system that will allow students to learn what is concurrent engineering and why it is beneficial, to investigate the preliminary design of a space mission – or system – and to gain direct experience of system engineering design.

Target audience

University students, from Bachelor to Ph.D. level, studying science or engineering who:

• participate in the ESA Academy's Hands-on Space Projects

• prepare for a space related career

• with no experience in the space domain

Trainers

• ESA scientists and engineers

• ESA retired staff

• University professors

• Experts from space industry and research organizations

Training session format

• up to 40 training hours (5 days)

• up to 30 university students per session

• 1 to 6 space professional trainers per day

• students arrive on Sunday or Monday

• students depart on Friday or Saturday

Training session topics

Since March 2016, training sessions on different space-related topics have been delivered including:

• Space engineering (including Concurrent Engineering)

• Space sciences

• Space medicine

• Space law

• Spacecraft operations and communication

• Product assurance

• Standardisation

• Space debris / clean space

• Earth observation

• Technology transfer, application and innovation

• Spacecraft testing

• Navigation

• Cybersecurity

• and more

Up to 20 training sessions are offered to university students every year.

List of past, current and future opportunity is available on ESA Education website.

Please note that the information detailed above is subject to change without prior notice.