INCREDIBILE OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE YOUR NETWORK, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

ESA’s TEC Directorate regularly organises events covering a diverse range of the topics related to space technology.
These events are targeted at specific audiences or can be completely open to anyone interested. They can be hosted in physical locations or held online, and can also feature exhibitors and side events.
Regardless, all of them provide great opportunities to network with Europe’s spaceflight community and to learn from experienced professionals.
If you are a university student, you may find dedicated training opportunities offered by our ESA Education Academy <a href="https://www.esa.int/Education/ESA_Academy/Current_opportunities_for_university_students" target="_blank">here</a>&nbsp;
Other opportunities can be found at this <a href="https://learninghub.esa.int" target="_blank">link</a>&nbsp;

Training courses

ESA’s TEC Directorate regularly organises events covering a diverse range of the topics related to space technology.
These events are targeted at specific audiences or can be completely open to anyone interested. They can be hosted in physical locations or held online, and can also feature exhibitors and side events.
Regardless, all of them provide great opportunities to network with Europe’s spaceflight community and to learn from experienced professionals.
You will find below a list of our events.

ESTEC events

Events&Workshops

The workshop is organized by the Working Group “Radiation of High Temperature Gas” (RHTG) managed by ESA, through the ESA Technology Directorate. The local organization for this event is managed by Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (ISTP) CNR, Bari section and Department of Mechanics, Mathematics and Management, Polytechnic University of Bari (Italy).
The Workshop is devoted to promoting a dialogue on the state of the art and recent advances for simulation/modelling and experimental techniques of hypersonic radiating gas flows for the determination of radiative heat fluxes encountered during atmospheric entry. The workshop provides the opportunity to explore related areas of research to face the challenges of future space flight.
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<li>Non-equilibrium chemical kinetics</li>
<li>Hypersonic flows</li>
<li>Plasma radiative emission and absorption</li>
<li>Experimental facilities and experimental techniques</li>
<li>Experimental and numerical modelling improvements of radiative heat transfer: refinement, verification, validation and comparison for space object re-entry simulation tools</li>
<li>Test cases proposed for validation</li>
</ul>

Radiation of High Temperature Gas (RHTG)

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13th International Conference on Guidance, Navigation &amp; Control Systems (GNC) and 10th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT). This joint event brings together space agencies, industry leaders, academia, and equipment manufacturers to showcase innovations, exchange ideas, and foster future cooperation in aerospace guidance, navigation, control, and astrodynamics.

ESA GNC & ICATT Conference

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This conference is to facilitate the exchange of best practices, methods, trends and lessons learned within the cost engineering community, giving opportunity to participants to demonstrate and share their work through presentations (and optional papers).

ESA/CNES Space Cost Engineering Conference 2026

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The BLAST Workshop aims to bring together the European launcher community to exchange knowledge and foster collaboration on the development of advanced GNC technologies.

3rd ESA  BLAST Workshop

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We warmly invite the space power community to join us once again for a new and even more inspiring edition. Your expertise is essential to shaping the conference, covering all key aspects of electrical power for space applications, including:
Power Management
Solar Generators
Energy Storage
Nuclear Power

14th European Space Power Conference – ESPC 2026

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The 3-day Summer School will propose a series of lectures about EP and its application given by experts in the field. The program will cover fundamental aspects, various technologies, numerical simulations, diagnostics and examples of missions using EP (detailed program and speakers available here).

3rd European Summer School on Electric Propulsion for Spacecraft.

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ICSO 2026 is the 16th edition of the largest meeting worldwide of experts working in all disciplines of Optical, Optoelectronic and Photonic Technologies for Space Applications.

ICSO 2026

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The SPCD international Symposium is the premier technical conference dedicated to Passive components for space applications. It is an exceptional venue to learn more about the latest advances in this field and meet recognized experts from industry, academia and agencies.

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Aim of the SPCD symposium is to promote the discussion of recent developments and trends and to encourage the exchange of technical expertise and information covering a broad range of EEE passive components for space applications

6th SPACE PASSIVE COMPONENT DAYS - SPCD 2026

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The 4th International Conference on Flight vehicles, Aerothermodynamics and Re-entry (FAR 2027) brings together leading research institutes, academia, industry and agencies to discuss the latest advances and future directions on the topics of aero(thermo)dynamics, flight vehicles and flight physics, and atmospheric re‑entry.

FAR 2027

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Incredibile opportunities to improve your network, knowledge and skills

ESA’s TEC Directorate regularly organises events covering a diverse range of the topics related to space technology.
These events are targeted at specific audiences or can be completely open to anyone interested. They can be hosted in physical locations or held online, and can also feature exhibitors and side events.
Regardless, all of them provide great opportunities to network with Europe’s spaceflight community and to learn from experienced professionals.
You will find below a list of our events.
For past events please visit our <a href="/events-archive" target="_blank">Events Archive</a> .&nbsp;