The 2nd Symposium on Space Educational Activities (2nd SSEA) event follows the first symposium which was initiated and hosted by the Center of Studies and Activities for Space (CISAS) ’Giuseppe Colombo’ of the University of Padova in December 2015, and will continue to be an excellent forum for students, professors, and professionals from around Europe to present and discuss their educational space-related projects and programmes. The purposes of the symposium are:
The symposium focuses on tertiary education (University level).
The website of the 1st SSEA (Padova, Italy, 9-12 December 2015) is available here.
October 1, 2017
November 20, 2017
December 20, 2017
February 1, 2018
March 10, 2018 (extended)
April 11-13, 2018
The program of the conference is the following:
Opening
Keynote lecture
Plenary and technical presentations
Lunch and coffee breaks
Welcome reception
Plenary and technical presentations
Poster presentation
Lunch and coffee breaks
Yuri's night
Plenary and technical presentations
Award ceremony
Closing ceremony
Lunch and coffee breaks
Gala dinner
Technical instructions
Technical instructions for full papers
A number of sponsorship opportunities are available for students attending the conference and presenting results of their educational projects who have had their abstracts accepted:
Online registration has been closed. For onsite registration, please contact us at ssea@mail.bme.hu. Sorry, no walk-in onsite registration.
| Category | Early Bird | Regular |
|---|---|---|
| Full-time students (no age limit) | 100 EUR | 150 EUR |
| Young professionals (no older than 35 years of age on the day of start of the Symposium) | 150 EUR | 200 EUR |
| Full-paying participants | 250 EUR | 350 EUR |
Those selecting the students registration category will be requested to provide evidence of their 2018 full-time student status when collecting their registration at the Symposium.
Those selecting the young professionals registration category will have to present their ID card or passport as a proof of the 35 years of age limitation when collecting their registration at the Symposim.
Following the online registration, registered parcitipants can pay the registration fee via bank transfer. Name: Hungarian Astronautical Society IBAN code: HU46 1070 0024 4947 8701 5110 0005 SWIFT code: CIBH HU HB If the details of the bank is needed for the transfer, Beneficiary Bank: CIB Bank Address: H-1027 Budapest, Medve u. 4-14., Hungary Account No.: 10700024-49478701-51100005
Dear Participant,we list below some hotels for your consideration for the Conference period. These are either within walking distance or can be reached with public transport without changing lines from the Conference venue.
Budapest is easily approachable by plane, train, bus and car. Well-known airlines (including several low-cost airlines, e.g., Ryanair, WizzAir, EasyJet) have their regular flights to Budapest Liszt Ferenc International Airport. Budapest is famous not only for the monuments reflecting its own 1,000-year-old culture, but also for the relics of others who settled here. Remains from both Roman occupation and much later ruled by the Turks can still be seen in the city.The capital has two sides, Buda and Pest, stretching along the banks of the Danube, representing two different characters of the city: the hilly Buda and flat landed Pest.The panorama of Budapest is breathtaking, and it does not get old to look from the Fisherman's Bastion or Citadella onto its fantastic scenery.Budapest has a lot to offer. Museums and galleries, churches and synagogues, palaces and historic buildings, baths and pools are presented together with the influence of Secession in the city.There is an unmistakable feeling that something out of the ordinary is just around the corner, but what it will be is up to you to find out...
The university offers perfect venue for the Symposium. BME, founded in 1782, is the most significant university of Technology in Hungary and is considered the world's oldest Institute of Technology which has university rank and structure. Nearly all of the large domestic and multinational companies have entered multiyear research cooperation agreements with the university, and installed well-equipped laboratories at the university. International relations of the university nearly cover the globe. Due to the good public transport system of the city, the university can be easily accessed by metro, trams and buses. A detailed map of the university can be found at here.
The Federated Innovation and Knowledge Centre (BME EIT) was created at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics of Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) in 2009 to stimulate the research and development activity and to assist the exploitation of research achievements at the Faculty. Currently, BME EIT operates the BME Space Forum which mission is to harmonize and coordinate the activity of departments at BME participating in space activities by a common vision and strategy, to recognize the joint human and technical resources amd amazing achievements, to make internal and external knowledge transfer more efficient, and to utilize opportunities lying in synergies granted by joint capabilities and unified representation. The common aim of BME Space Forum members is to become the bridge between academic research and production, service application, and to participate all phases of research/development-innovation and application processes of space activity. Currently 12 Departments of 4 BME Faculties participate Space Forum voluntarily. eit.bme.hu
ESA's Education Office is responsible for the Agency's corporate education programme bringing together young people from many different nations. The aim is to help young Europeans, aged from 6 to 28, to gain and maintain an interest in science and technology, with the long-term objectives of contributing towards the creation of a knowledge-based society and ensuring the existence of a qualified workforce for the Agency that will ensure Europe’s continued leadership in space activities. esa.int/Education
The Hungarian Astronautical Society (MANT in Hungarian) is a civil organization in Hungary that gathers space researchers , users of space technology and everyone who is interested in the interdisciplinary and state-of-the-art uses and research of outer space. The society was established in 1956 in Budapest, and it is the only Hungarianm ember of the International Astronautical Federation 8IFA) since 1959. The aim of MANT is to raise public awareness about space ativity and space applications. The society also provides an opportunity for space anthusiasts to meet, exchange ideas and work together. MANT, through its members from various fielsd of science, organizes conferences, youth forums, summer space camps, issues periodicals , releases media material and holds lectures about space research and connected scientific fields. mant.hu
László Bacsárdi – Chair, Associate professor, University of Sopron
Kálmán Kovács – Co-chair, Associate professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
László Csurgai-Horváth - Associate professor, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
Lóránt Földváry - Associate professor, University of Óbuda
Alessandro Francesconi - Associate Professor of Space Systems, University of Padova
Sándor Frey - Senior scientist, Research Centre for Astronomy and Earth Sciences, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Piero Galeone - Head of the Tertiary Education Unit, Education Office, European Space Agency
Ferenc Horvai - Ministry of National Development, Hungary
Anton Ivanov - Senior Scientist, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Alexander Kinnaird - Education Office, European Space Agency
Michelle Lavagna - Associate Professor of Flight Dynamics, Politecnico di Milano
Antonio de Luca - Education Office, European Space Agency
János Lichtenberger - Professor, Eötvös Loránd University
Ali Nasseri - Chair, Space Generation Advisory Council
Szabolcs Rózsa - Associate professor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
For companies and institutions who would like to show their work/projects/opportunities, exhibition booths will be provided during the symposium. If you are interested in exhibition opportunities, please contact us at ssea@mail.bme.hu.
For those who would like to be partner of Symposium, sponsorship kit is available. Please contact us at ssea@mail.bme.hu.
