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SUMMARY:European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium (ESMATS 2025)
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to welcome the 21st edition of the European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium (ESMATS) to EPFL! \nDates: 24-26 September 2025\nLocation: SwissTech Convention Center\, Lausanne\nOrganized in collaboration with ESA\, CSEM and Almatech\, ESMATS 2025 will bring together engineers\, researchers\, and space industry professionals from across Europe to exchange the latest advances in space mechanisms and tribology. \nAs a tradition\, prior to the conference\, specialized training courses will also offer attendees the opportunity to enhance expertise in targeted areas of mechanism and tribology. \nFor programme details and registrations\, visit esmats.eu/lausanne.
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/european-space-mechanisms-and-tribology-symposium-esmats-2025/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Conference
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SUMMARY:ESA 50 Year Anniversary Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Science\, Exploration\, Inspiration\nIlluminate Europe’s sky! \nOn the Monday 26th of May Space Exchange Switzerland (funded by the Swiss Space Office of the SEFRI)  is very fortunate to host the celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the ESA Convention in Lausanne. In 2025\, the 50th anniversary of the signature of the ESA Convention (30 May 1975) provides the opportunity to reflect not only on ESA’s past achievements\, but also on its future perspectives. Come and join us for this celebration! It will be a wonderful opportunity to discover ESA’s past and future achievements\, you will meet major space actors like Josef Aeschbacher and our new Swiss Astronaut Marco Sieber. We have the honor of having Guy Parmelin\, Federal Councillor\, address the audience with a brief opening. Hear what the General Director of ESA-Josef Aeschbacher has to say about ESA’s 2040 vision and listen to exciting interventions about Science\, Exploration and Inspiration in space. Small interludes by the Swiss-led troupe The Blackouts will add a special light to the event. \nThis event is open to everyone and free of charge. Registration is mandatory. If you cannot attend\, please cancel your participation by writing an e-mail to info@space-exchange.ch so that we can give your seat to somebody else. \nEVENT IN ENGLISH ONLY. \n			\n							Register here
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/esa-50-year-anniversary-celebration/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20250526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20250528
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SUMMARY:Space Community Days 2025
DESCRIPTION:2-day event of value-added exchanges and opportunities in the space field. Practical and useful insights for space industries and newcomers in the domain. \n! This event is dedicated to Swiss organisations with invited international speakers ! \nThe event will be held at the SwissTech Convention Center on May 26-27 and will offer: \n\nPresentations over 2 days: the agenda might be subject to minor changes.\nPhysical Face-2-Face (B2B) meeting sessions\nCelebration of the 50th anniversary of ESA on Monday evening from 4:30 to 7:00. Wanna participate? Simply register yourself on this platform\, no need to do it separately!  \n\nThe Space Community Days 2025 offer a platform to exchange experiences and to support cooperation. This is a great opportunity to listen to prominent speakers involving ESA program managers\, representatives of Swiss companies and of the Large European System Integrators. \nThe event is intended to learn about future opportunities in select ESA programmes. The community days will also be the occasion to improve the dialogue between space science and industry through dedicated sessions and panels. \nOur goal for these two days is for every participant\, regardless of their sector in the space community\, to leave with a key action they can immediately apply in their daily work. \nIn parallel of the Space Community Days\, we are honored to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the European Space Agency (ESA) on the opening evening – May 26\, 2025. Organized by Space Exchange Switzerland under the mandate of SEFRI\, this event highlights Switzerland’s engagement in the space domain. The celebration will take place at the SwissTech Convention Center in Lausanne\, gathering 1’700 participants\, including space industry professionals\, students\, institutions\, and the large public. Distinguished guests\, such as ESA Director General\, Parmelin and Anna Fontcuberta i Morral\, will also be in attendance. Once again if you want to join us at this celebration.\nNote that our event will be filmed and photographed. If you don’t want to be pictured\, please let us know before!\nThe second day will focus on the presentation of space for business\, following by an engaging afternoon session on Swiss tools designed to support your success. \nYou can optimise your attendance by using this platform in order to book your B2B (1:1) meetings with other participants\, including the speakers\, at your convenience. \nThe Swiss Space Office is organising this event with the collaboration of Space Exchange Switzerland. \n			\n							Register here
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/space-community-days/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:Space Sustainability: Bridging Initiatives and Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:This collaborative one-and-a-half-day workshop is co-organized by the Secure World Foundation\, the EU COST network FOGOS\, and in partnership with the ITU\, the Swiss Foreign Affairs\, and the ERC project PlanetStewards. It will convene experts\, policymakers\, and social scientists to conduct a comprehensive analysis of existing space sustainability capacity-building initiatives. The event aims to evaluate current approaches\, identifying where they complement each other and where gaps exist while introducing fresh perspectives to advance the field. By bringing together diverse stakeholders\, the workshop seeks to strengthen the connection between theoretical frameworks and practical implementation in space sustainability. \nView the latest agenda HERE. \n	Registration deadline: March 16th\, 2025\n			\n							Get tickets
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/space-sustainability-bridging-initiatives-and-perspectives/
LOCATION:EPFL BC 420\, BC Bulding\, Rue Jean-Daniel-Colladon\, Lausanne\, Vaud\, 1015\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Swiss Apollo : de la Suisse à la Lune with Marco Sieber and Claude Nicollier
DESCRIPTION:Le 19 Decembre 2024\, le SwissTech Convention Center aura l’honneur d’accueillir Claude Nicollier\, Marco Sieber et d’autres invités vedettes pour une soirée historique et exceptionnelle. Le SwissTech Convention Center et SwissApollo vous invitent à passer deux heures d’enchantement. \nLors de cette soirée inédite\, nous allons célébrer le 80ème anniversaire de notre héros national\, Claude Nicollier\, en retraçant les points forts de sa vie professionnelle et privée . Le vétéran de quatre vols spatiaux accueillera en personne sur scène son successeur\, Marco Sieber. Ce sera la première apparition de notre nouvel astronaute suisse devant le grand public. Il s’agira aussi de présenter un moment d’échange entre les deux hommes\, une rencontre historique marquée par une passation de témoin symbolique. \n			\n							REGISTER
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/swiss-apollo-de-la-suisse-a-la-lune-with-marco-sieber-and-claude-nicollier/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Show/Spectacle
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SUMMARY:Aerospace Europe ConferenceJoint 10th EUCASS - 9th CEAS Conference
DESCRIPTION:About the conference\n	\n	The Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 is a joint event between the 10th European Conference for Aerospace Sciences (EUCASS) and the 9th conference of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS).\nThe objectives in 2023 are to strengthen the link between space and aeronautics\, facilitate cross-fertilisation and lay the foundations for a major unified international congress of aerospace sciences in Europe. With rich scientific content for the future of space and aeronautics\, the Aerospace Europe Conference 2023 will present cutting-edge ideas for the world of tomorrow.\nOrganised at the Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne\, Switzerland\, the conference will also be an opportunity to discover the city\, the Olympic Capital of the world\, as well as the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ranked 16th in the QS World University Ranking.\n			\n							REGISTER
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/aerospace-europe-conference-2023/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
CATEGORIES:Call for papers,Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20220518T180000
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SUMMARY:Our Places in the Cosmos: from the Big Bang to Life on Other Earths -  Conference of Michel Mayor and James Peebles
DESCRIPTION:Free admission. Registration will be required for attendance in person. \n			\n							REGISTER HERE\n		\n	What are our cosmic origins\, and how special is planet Earth? And what is the importance of cosmology and astrophysics from a human perspective and for society? \nJoin us on 18 May 2022 at the SwissTech Convention Center for a one-of-a-kind symposium to ponder these and other fundamental questions of humanity with two world-leading scientists who have made groundbreaking contributions to cosmology and astrophysics. \nProf. James Peebles from Princeton University will present the cosmological context\, from the beginnings of the Universe\, to the hierarchy of structures\, and how this relates to an expanding Universe. Prof. Michel Mayor from the University of Geneva will describe what we have learned about the existence of planets orbiting stars other than the Sun and the context this provides for understanding our home planet\, Earth. \nFollowing their presentations\, we look forward to a round-table discussion and Q&A featuring both speakers\, as well as ESA astronaut and EPFL Prof. Claude Nicollier\, and EPFL astrophysicists Prof. Michaela Hirschmann and Dr. Richard Anderson. Electronic submission of questions will be available before and during the meeting. \n	Michel Mayor was born in Lausanne. After completing his studies in Physics at the University of Lausanne\, he obtained his doctorate at the University of Geneva in 1971. Professor of astrophysics at the University of Geneva since 1984\, he served as director of the Department of Astronomy from 1998 to 2004. Since 2007\, he has been an honorary professor. While his thesis focused on the dynamics of spiral galaxies\, he developed with some colleagues from the observatories of Geneva and Marseille a new type of spectrograph\, an instrument able to measure the speed of stars\, in order to verify their predictions. It is the beginning of his interest for the study of the movement of stars\, the stellar kinematics\, it is also the beginning of his passion for the development of more and more sensitive stellar spectrographs.\nIn 1995\, he and his doctoral student at the time\, Didier Quéloz\, announced to the international scientific community the detection of the first planet outside the solar system\, exoplanet 51 Pegasi b. An exoplanet orbiting around a star comparable to our Sun\, about fifty light-years from Earth. This incredible announcement paves the way for thousands of researchers and thus launches the “century of exoplanets”\, more than 5000 to date.\nJames Peebles was born in St. Boniface\, near Winnipeg\, Canada. After attending the University of Manitoba\, he continued his studies at Princeton University in the United States\, receiving his doctorate there in 1962. He remained at Princeton for the remainder of his career\, becoming an assistant professor in 1965 and a full professor in 1972. He became the Albert Einstein Professor of Science in 1984 and a professor emeritus in 2000. He is widely regarded as one of the world’s leading theoretical cosmologists since 1970\, with major theoretical contributions to primordial nucleosynthesis\, dark matter\, the cosmic microwave background\, and structure formation.\nJames Peebles’ theoretical framework\, developed since the mid-1960s in in the field of physical cosmology is the basis of our contemporary ideas about the origins of the universe. The cosmic background radiation is a remaining trace of the formation of the universe. Using his theoretical tools and calculations\, James Peebles was able to interpret these traces from the infancy of the universe and discover new physical processes. The results showed us a universe in which just five per cent of its content is known matter. The rest\, 95 per cent\, is unknown dark matter and dark energy.\nJames Peebles was awarded half the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2019 “for theoretical discoveries in physical cosmology”\, the other half was awarded jointly to Michel Mayor and Didier Quéloz “for the discovery of an exoplanet orbiting a solar-type star”. \n\n		Programme\n	\n	5:30 pm  Doors opening\n6:00 pm  Opening address\n■ Jean-Paul Kneib\, Academic Director of eSpace EPFL Space Center and Laboratory of Astrophysics\n■ Richard Anderson\, Group Leader at EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics\n6:15 pm  Talk\n■ James Peebles\, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019\nSpeaker introduced by Richard Anderson\n6:45 pm  Talk\n■ Michel Mayor\, Nobel Prize in Physics 2019\nSpeaker introduced by Jean-Paul Kneib\n7:15 pm  Roundtable\n■ Michel Mayor\n■ James Peebles\n■ Claude Nicollier\, Professor Emeritus at EPFL\n■ Michaela Hirschmann\, Tenure Track Assistant Professor at EPFL’s Laboratory of Astrophysics\n■ Richard Anderson\nRoundtable introduced and moderated by Chloé Carrière (alias Galactic Chloé)\n7:40 pm  Q&A\n8:15 pm  End of the event\n\n		Watch LIVE on YouTube
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/our-places-in-the-cosmos/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:Low Earth Orbit Kinetic Space Safety Workshop
DESCRIPTION:The LEO Kinetic Space Safety Workshop is a two-day workshop on 4-5 May\, 2022 with the goal of enhancing collisional space safety in low-Earth orbit (LEO). The accelerating pace of commercial space activity and increasing frequency of debris-generating events have led to an unprecedented growth of the population of objects\, known as space debris\, in LEO. Industry\, governments\, and others are concerned for the near-term safety of operational satellites and the long-term sustainability of outer space. \nIn response to this pressing global issue\, the LEO Kinetic Space Safety Workshop will bring together international experts\, space practitioners\, and others to debate solutions and pragmatic actions for enhancing space safety and sustainability in LEO. The workshop will feature keynote speakers detailing the current state-of-the-art in spacecraft impact tolerance\, collision avoidance\, debris prevention\, and debris remediation. Interactive roundtable discussions will assess the identified proposals\, focusing on their benefit\, cost\, and maturity. \nThis hybrid workshop will take place at The SwissTech Convention Center at EPFL in Lausanne and online. It is organized by the EPFL Space Center (eSpace)\, EPFL International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)\, ClearSpace\, AXA\, LeoLabs\, and the Secure World Foundation. \n	To inform the workshops discussions\, a poll is available for the global space community to register their views on why they feel that kinetic space safety is important and how they would rank specific kinetic space safety activities. Please respond to the poll HERE. \n			\n							REGISTER HERE\n		\n			\n							FULL PROGRAMME\n		\n			\n							SEE ALL SPEAKERS
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/low-earth-orbit-kinetic-space-safety-workshop/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
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SUMMARY:Legends of Space
DESCRIPTION:Take an incredible journey through the past\, present\, and future of human spaceflight and space exploration\, as we tell the continuing story of humankind’s greatest adventure. \nFrom Project Gemini to the Apollo program\, to present day NASA and global space agencies commitment to landing humans including the first woman\, and the next man on the Moon by the mid 2020’s through the ARTEMIS program\, establishing sustainable missions by the end of the decade\, and to the next giant leap for all humanity – sending humans to Mars. \nLegendary figures from the Gemini and Apollo Missions\, with prominent figures from Space Shuttle and International Space Station Missions\, to current USA and European Space Agency Space Mission Leaders\, and global commercial Space Partners. \nFeaturing live on Stage \n\nGemini VIII and Apollo 9 Astronaut\, Apollo 15 Commander and Moonwalker Dave Scott\nApollo 16 Astronaut and Moonwalker Charlie Duke\nApollo Mission Control Flight Director of all the Apollo Missions Gerry Griffin\n12th NASA Administrator and Space Shuttle Commander\, The Honorable Charles F. Bolden Jr.\nformer Director of The Johnson Space Center\, Space Shuttle Astronaut and the first Hispanic woman in space Ellen Ochoa\nNASA Astronaut and the first American woman to walk in space Kathy Sullivan\nSwiss ESA Astronaut Claudie Nicollier\nFrench ESA Astronaut Jean-Francois Clervoy\nESA Senior Advisor for Science and Exploration Professor Mark McCaughrean\, with special guests featuring; current United States of America Space Mission Leaders\n\nFeaturing singers-songwriters Mark Armstrong and Kali Armstrong\, the son and granddaughter of legendary Apollo 11 Astronaut and Commander Neil Armstrong\, with an emotional special music performance tribute to the heroes of human spaceflight and exploration. \nHosted by SwissApollo\, Lukas Viglietti  \n			\n							INFO & TICKETS
URL:https://espace.epfl.ch/event/legends-of-space/
LOCATION:Swisstech Convention Center\, Quartier Nord EPFL\, Route Louis-Favre 2\, Ecublens\, Vaud\, 1024\, Switzerland
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