Summer School Alpbach 2010
"New Space Missions for Understanding Climate Change"
July 27 - August 5, Alpbach/Tyrol - Austria
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THE SUMMER SCHOOL

Held annually since 1975, the Alpbach Summer School enjoys a long tradition in providing in-depth teaching on aspects of space science and space technology with the aim of advancing the training and working experience of European graduates, post-graduate students, young scientists and engineers.

Participants are given the opportunity to expand and strengthen their knowledge of selected space issues in workshops which are part of the Summer School programme. Student teams will develop space mission concepts based on the theme of the Summer School. The 2010 Summer School Alpbach will focus on the theme

"New Space Missions for Understanding Climate Change"

The purpose of the Summer School is to foster the practical application of knowledge derived from lectures, to develop organisational and team-work skills and to encourage creativity. Teams will compete to design the best project, judged by an independent jury. The teams themselves are responsible for the selection of the subject of the project and for the team structure and working methods.

Prospective Summer school students will meet great challenges, such as in real life. These include 20-hour working days (before proposal submittal), sudden immersion into new fields and techniques, as well as the difficulties of forming and working together as a team, with scientists listening to engineers and engineers listening to scientists. However, on day ten, the reward will be a proposal for a unique space mission.

The objectives

  • motivating participants to seeing space as an exciting and challenging endeavour
  • working in international, multi-disciplinary teams by posing challenging topics for designing space missions
  • teach a range of scientific topics relevant to the range of possible science missions to design, and to teach about the different aspects of the complex interplay between scientific objectives and requirements on the one hand, mission- and spacecraft design as well as mission costing on the other hand
  • to develop the ability to work in teams for a common end, to prepare presentations and reports under serious time constraints
  • to enjoy the "Alpbach experience" that is quite unique

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