ESERO
Nowadays a decreasing number of young people decide to take up STEM-related (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) studies and careers. The ESERO project is contributing to make a difference and reverse this negative trend through an Education programme which targets students starting from an early age.
ESERO uses space related themes and the genuine fascination felt by young people for space to enhance school pupils’ literacy and competence in STEM-related subjects. The ESERO project also highlights the associated applications from space and raises awareness of the large range of career prospects in the space domain.
By using the space context to make the teaching and learning of STEM subjects more attractive and accessible, pupils can feel more comfortable and familiar with sciences in general. The ESERO activities help bring STEM subjects within the pupils reach, demolishing the misconception that science is only for geniuses.
ESERO freely offers teacher training sessions for both primary and secondary school teachers, teaching materials, workshops and fieldtrips.
ESERO Hungary is a project of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Implemented by Design Terminal and its partners Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Eötvös Lóránd University and the Hungarian Astronautical Society.
Would like to find out more about ESERO visit the ESA Education website or the pan-European ESERO project website hosted by ESA
Design Terminal is Central Europe’s leading innovation agency, being present in 14 countries. We support our partners in business development, and since 2014 we have helped more than 2,500 startups in more than 250 programs. We believe that innovation cannot exist without an optimistic community, which is why we place great emphasis on a network of personal connections.
Design Terminal is working together with ESA since 2021 leading the Agency’s Business Incubation Centres (ESA BIC) and Technology Broker programmes in Hungary, providing businesses with high-level professional support, which opens the way for them to the sector.
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As part of the initiative ESERO Hungary together with its partner ELTE offers free teacher training curses. The main aim of the training is to provide a tool for teachers and put in an extra spark of excitement with the help of new materials, experiments and exercises to make STEM subjects more interesting for students.
04.27. 14:00 - 16:00
Water on the Moon? (Ages 8–12: Mathematics, Science) REGISTER HERE
04.27. 16:00 - 18:00
Moon Constitution, (Ages 8–12: Science, Social Science) REGISTER HERE
05.11. 14:00 - 16:00
Code your mission to the Mars (Ages 8–12: Mathematics, Physics, Programming, Robotics) REGISTER HERE
05.11. 16:00 - 18:00
Could we live on Mars? (Ages 8–12: Science) REGISTER HERE
06.08. 14:00 - 16:00
From the ground and from the sky (Ages 8–12: Geography) REGISTER HERE
06.08. 16:00 - 18:00
Pixel your space (Ages 8–11: Mathematics, science and technology, Art and Design) REGISTER HERE
09.15. 14:00 - 16:00
Robotic Arm (Ages 8–12: Science, Arts) Coming soon
09.15. 16:00 - 18:00
Weather vs Climate - Understanding the difference between weather and climate (Ages 8–12: Science, mathematics) Coming soon
10.13. 14:00 - 16:00
Our solar system (Ages 8–11: Science) Coming soon
10.13. 16:00 - 18:00
One year on Earth (Ages 8–12: Geography, Science) Coming soon
11.10. 14:00 - 16:00
Earth under the lid - Understanding the greenhouse effect (Ages 8–10: Geography, Science) Coming soon
11.10. 16:00 - 18:00
Nose up high in the sky - Observing and measuring weather conditions (Ages 8–10: Geography, Science) Coming soon
05.04. 14:00 - 16:00
Landing on the Moon (Ages 14–16: Physics, Mathematics, Economics) REGISTER HERE
05.04. 16:00 - 18:00
Extracting water from lunar soil (Ages 12–16: Chemistry, Physics) REGISTER HERE
05.25. 14:00 - 16:00
Deciding Destinations KS4 (Ages 14–16: Mathematics, Science, Physics) REGISTER HERE
09.15. 16:00 - 18:00
Could life survive in alien environments? (Ages 13–16: Biology) REGISTER HERE
06.15. 14:00 - 16:00
The greenhouse effect and its consequences (Ages 12–15: Geography, Physics, Science) REGISTER HERE
06.15. 16:00 - 18:00
After the storm (Ages 12–15: Geography, Science) REGISTER HERE
09.29. 14:00 - 16:00
Marble-ous ellipses (Ages 12–15: Physics, Mathematics) Coming soon
09.29. 14:00 - 16:00
Power from sunlight (Ages 14–18: Physics) Coming soon
10.27. 14:00 - 16:00
3…2…1…lift-off Building your own paper rocket (Ages 14–16: Physics) Coming soon
10.27. 16:00 - 18:00
Whoosh bottle – applying newton’s laws to rockets (Ages 14–17: Physics, Chemistry) Coming soon
11.17. 14:00 - 16:00
Exoplanets in motion (Ages 10–18: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy) Coming soon
11.17. 16:00 - 18:00
Exoplanets detective (Ages 13–18: Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy) Coming soon
Design Terminal Open Day - A unique opportunity for students to learn the basics of starting a business. With the help experienced space entrepreneurs participants will also learn the base of any successful business, namely to provide multiple solutions to a problem and then how to decide which idea is the best one to pursue.
REGISTER HERESpace Industry Day - The event will feature stories from successful entrepreneurs who have successfully joined the space industry. Afterwards, company representatives will share their personal experiences of career opportunities in STEM subjects and the diverse impact of the space industry on our daily lives.
REGISTER HEREWhat is the European AstroPi challenge?
The European Astro Pi Challenge is an ESA Education project run in collaboration with the Raspberry Pi Foundation. It offers students and young people the amazing opportunity to conduct scientific investigations in space by writing computer programs that run on our two Astro Pi’s - special Raspberry Pi computers aboard the International Space Station (ISS). These Astro Pi computers come with a set of sensors that can sense the ISS’s environment and detect movement. They are equipped with a different kind of camera; one has an infrared camera, and the other has a standard visible spectrum camera.
The Astro Pi challenge is divided in two separate missions featuring different levels of complexity: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab.
Mission Zero offers participants up to 14 years old the chance to have their first code run in space on the ISS! Teams write a simple program to display a message to astronauts onboard.
Mission Space Lab offers participants up to 19 years old the chance to have their scientific experiment run on the ISS. The challenge is to design and program a scientific experiment to be run on an Astro Pi computer.
Participation is open to team of 2 to 4 students, followed by a teacher or mentor, from ESA Member States, Canada, Slovenia and Malta.
For more information and full participation details, please visit astro-pi.org
A CanSat is a simulation of a real satellite, integrated within the volume and shape of a soft drink can. This minimal volume should fit all major subsystems found in a satellite, such as power, sensors, and a communication system.
It should weigh between 300 and 350 grams, and cost less that 500€ to produce.
The challenge is for school students to design a CanSat, select its mission, integrate the components, test it, prepare it for launch, and then collect and analyse the data.
To carry out its mission, the CanSat is either launched by a rocket to an altitude up to a kilometre, or dropped from a platform or captive balloon. The mission is to carry out scientific experiments and achieve a safe landing.
Participation is open to teams of 4 to 6 secondary school students aged between 14 and 19. At least fifty per cent of the team members should be citizens of an ESA Member States1, Canada, Slovenia and Malta.
The winning teams of the national CanSat competitions endorsed by ESA are automatically granted a place at the European CanSat competition.
Find out more at https://www.cansatverseny.hu or contact [email protected].
Climate detectives is an ESA education project where teams of students are called to ‘make a difference’: identify a local climate problem, investigate it by using satellite images, take measurements on the ground, and then propose a way to monitor or mitigate it. All participating teams will then share their findings on the project sharing platform (climatedetectives.esa.int) with the additional objective of building a sense of community among student teams and teachers from different countries.
At key phases of the project, real experts in the field of Earth observation and climate support the teams by giving feedback on their investigation plan via email and during an online ‘ask the scientist’ event.
Participation is open to teams of student aged 8-15 from an ESA Member State, Canada, Malta and Slovenia. Teams must be supported by a teacher and must include at least 6 students up to a whole class.
Participation is open to teams of student aged 8-15 from an ESA Member State, Canada, Malta and Slovenia. Teams must be supported by a teacher and must include at least 6 students up to a whole class.
Mission X is an international educational challenge that encourages students to train like an astronaut by completing physical and scientific activities. Lead by ESA Education and the UK Space Agency, and facilitated by the ESERO network, Mission X uses the excitement of space exploration to inspire students to learn about science, nutrition, exercise, and space!
Teams of students must complete activities to earn points and help the Mission X mascots walk to the Moon. Two sets of hands-on classroom activities support the challenge: physical activities, which help students develop strength, endurance, coordination, and spatial awareness; and scientific activities which focus on STEM subjects and allow students to practice scientific reasoning and teamwork. The activities have been developed with space scientists and fitness professionals working with astronauts and space agencies across the world.
Mission X is open worldwide and students can register through a national registration system, accessible through the Mission X website. While targeted to students aged 8-12, the activities can be easily adapted to suit other ages.
The challenge runs annually from January to May.
For more information and full participation details, please visit: Mission X – Train Like an Astronaut
Moon Camp is an education project run in collaboration between ESA and the Airbus Foundation, in partnership with Autodesk. It uses innovative learning technologies to challenge students to design their own Moon settlement with a 3D modelling tool (Tinkercad or Fusion 360). Teams first have to develop a number of scientific interdisciplinary experiments to explore the extreme environment of space and understand how astronauts could live on the Moon. Then they have to design their Moon Camp, which should be adapted to the Moon environment, consider the use of local resources and provide protection and living and working facilities for the astronauts. Moon Camp is divided in three separate categories featuring different levels of complexity: Moon Camp Discovery, Moon Camp Explorers and Moon Camp Pioneers.
Teams design one component of the Moon Camp using Tinkercad. Once they upload their design, they will receive a Moon Camp participation certificate. Open for students up to 19 years old, but recommended to 6 to 14 years old.
Using Tinkercad, teams design the complete Moon Camp and submit their report to an expert jury. Participating teams will compete for the Moon Camp Explorers Prize for best project. For students up to (and including) 14 years old.
Using Fusion 360, teams design the complete Moon Camp and submit their report to an expert jury. Participating teams will compete for the Moon Camp Pioneers Prize for best project. For students 15 to (and including) 19 years old.
Participation is open worldwide to teams of students aged up to 19 years old. Teams must be comprised of a minimum of 2 up to a maximum of 6 students and must be supported by a teacher or educator. Moon Camp Discovery can also be done at home by individuals supported by their parents.
For more information and full participation details, please visit: www.mooncampchallenge.org