4th AbGradE Workshop in Madrid, Spain 

After the success of the event at BEACON 2023, AbGradE will be back for a second time this year with a workshop! 

We would like to invite you to the beautiful capital of Spain Madrid for a one-day event on September 18th (just before EANA’23).

Registration is now open, and you can find more info on the event’s page.

🇪🇸We look forward to seeing you soon!🇪🇸

Deadline approaching for EAI’s summer school and conference in Portugal

Both taking place in Angra do Heroismo (Azores Islands, Portugal) in October, the deadline for application to the Summer school “Volcanism, Plate Tectonics, Hydrothermal vents and life” and the deadline for registration and abstract submission for the Conference “Life in the sub-surface” are on the 1st of July (in just 4 days!!)

You will be able to apply and/or register at the following links:
• Summer school (11 – 21 October 2023) •
• Conference (25 – 27 October 2023) •

Conference “Commercial Space Exploration and Travel – Chances and Risks”

The meeting “Commercial Space Exploration and Travel – Chances and Risks” organised by the EAI will take place at Malmfälten Adult Education Centre in Kiruna (Sweden ) from September 25th in the morning to September 27th in the evening. It will bring scientists, students, politicians, journalists and other stakeholders together to discuss the ethical, political legal, societal and environmental aspects of commercial space travel.

Apart from offering a very interesting programme, the meeting will take place during Lapland’s very beautiful Indian Summer, which enables good opportunities to see the Northern Lights. The following themes will be covered:

  • Legal, ethical and societal issues concerning commercial space exploration
  • Environmental issues concerning space exploration
  • Protection of extraterrestrial bodies
  • Spin-offs of scientific space exploration
  • International cooperation in the commercial use of space: will space exploration be restricted to a few powerful countries and regions?
  • Space research and exploration as a chance for remote regions in Europe
  • Global governance efforts regarding the commercial use of space
  • Mining of extraterrestrial bodies
  • The future of commercial space travel

Please check the website for more info.

Conference “Life in the sub-surface”

The meeting “Life in the Sub-Surface: Habitats, species, metabolism and survival strategies” organised by the EAI will take place in Angra (in the Azores Islands, Portugal) from the 25th to the 27th of October 2023. It will focus on the following subjects:

  • Characteristics of (potential)  sub-surface habitats on Earth and beyond
  • Early evolution of subsurface life including its possible role in emergence of life
  • Diversity, metabolism and survival strategies of subsurface life on Earth
  • Possibility of extraterrestrial subsurface life and its detection
  • Gaps in the knowledge about subsurface life
  • Subsurface environments and extremophiles on the Azores.

 It will be held at the very modern Centro Cultural e de Congressos offering
ideal setting. The location Angra (in the Azores Islands, Portugal) is a picturesque city and has plenty of good restaurants and clean and affordable hotels with good
services.

The EAI project team “Astrobiology and Art” will organise a multimedia event on the first day. The speleological society “Os Montanheiros” will organise an exhibition of life in Azorean lava caves.

 >> The deadline for registration and abstract submission is July 1st,
2023 <<

Please check the website for more info.

AbGradEPEC 2023 is in almost 1 week!

We are really looking forward to finally having this long-awaited event in La Palma🌴

Here is the programme, packed with interesting talks, workshops and fun activities:

All participants should expect one last email from us with more practical details and the Symposium Bookletđź“–

We’ll see some of you soon, and hopefully we’ll be able to meet those who couldn’t join us this time at our next events!

Registrations open for the Space Science in Context (SSiC) online conference

Join on the 26th January 2023 the Space Science in Context (SSiC): a FREE online conference that unpacks the social dimensions of outer space.

There will be three panels of invited speakers who will be live in conversation – on Space and the Environment; Space, Technology and Dual-Use; and Labour and Space – packed with wonderful speakers, and two poster sessions of contributions from around the world on how space interacts with local social contexts. 

The schedule, programme and more information about SSiC is available online at spacescienceincontext.com, and from Thursday 19th January the prerecorded talks and posters are available online to registrants. 

Register for the conference and gain access to their pre-recorded content and the live panels, for free, here.

They will be providing English-language CART for the three speaker panels and one poster room in each session, with auto-captioning available for the poster sessions. Further, all attendees, invited speakers, and poster presenters are required to comply with the accessibility statement and code of conduct. If you would like more information about accessibility, including how to use Zoom’s accessibility features, or safety please reach out to the organisers at spacescienceincontext(at)gmail.com.

Space Science in Context 2023 is only possible thanks to the financial support of the Royal Astronomical Society’s Meeting Grant; and the European Association of Science and Technology Studies (EASST) Fund. SSiC is and will always be free to attend. If you would like to donate to support SSiC and our mission to pay speakers and build accessible, interdisciplinary platforms, consider buying them a Ko-Fi!

AbGradEPEC 2023 in La Palma, Spain 

After the success of the joint AbGradEPEC event at EPSC2022, AbGradE and EPEC are teaming up again for the long-awaited AbGradEPEC 2023!  

We would like to invite you to the beautiful island of La Palma (Spain) for a 4-day event, May 4th to 7th (just before BEACON 2023).

Registration is now open, and you can find more info on the event’s page.

🌴We look forward to seeing you in “La Isla Bonita!”🌴

AbGradEPEC 2022 at EPSC 2022 in Granada, Spain 

We are back! For our first in person event in two years, AbGradE teams up with EPEC for EPSC2022, expanding network opportunities for early career scientists and students.  

This year we invite you on Sunday, September 18th for a symposium-style meeting with a program comprising of contributed talks from early career scientists, keynote presentations and an update from AbGradE and EPEC regarding our activities and future events.

The event will be held 10 am to 4pm at the Palacio de Congresos de Granada, Room Andalucia 2. A detailed program and further details will be shared at the beginning of September. 

Registration and applications for contributed talks can be accomplished in the following form: https://forms.gle/vwDu5A6rSR4smaJk8  

For contributed talks, a submission of a short abstract (max. 200 words) is required until August 24th.  We invite early careers to present their work which they either present as a poster at EPSC22 or any other project not presented at EPSC22. Letters of acceptance will be sent out by August 31st. 

The final program for AbGradEPEC 2022 is out!

We look forward to meeting you in Granada!Â