ESA 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities in Barcelona

Between 27-29th April 4wardFutures were able to share the work they did over the first Covid lockdown period in 2020 with young people from Ellsemere Port Catholic High School and Bridgewater High School at the European Space Agency 4th Symposium on Space Educational Activities in Barcelona. Through our Visualising a Life on Mars (VALOM) and Constructing a Life on Mars (CALOM) projects, over 240 young people, who for the majority of the time were based at home due to COVID lockdowns, took part in 18 webinars and hybrid workshops with space sector professionals and Astro Artists from around the world.

VALOM and CALOM are careers education projects that use traveling to and constructing a life on Mars as metaphors to introduce young people to the wide range of careers opportunities that are available across the space sector.

Purpose of symposium

Every two years, the Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA), organised by the European Space Agency's Education Office, provides a forum for university students, professionals working in education, and other young professionals to present and discuss their experiences in Educational Activities related to Space.

Between 27 and 29th April 2022, the 4th SSEA event took place in Barcelona, Spain. It was organised by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC at Vèrtex Building), with the close collaboration of the Institut d’Estudis Espacials de Catalunya (IEEC) and the Institut de Ciències del Cosmos (ICC-UB).

Some links

CALOM webpage   https://www.4wardfutures.org.uk/constructing-a-life-on-mars

VALOM webpage   https://www.4wardfutures.org.uk/visualising-a-life-on-mars

VALOM Virtual gallery https://4fvirtual.org.uk/gallery/

SSEA 22 https://sseasymposium.org/

Ellesmere Catholic High School WoW Award for work on VCALOM and VALOM https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/19058672.ellesmere-port-schools-life-mars-project-wins-top-award/