SGAC is pleased to announce Manfred Ehresmann as the winner of the Move an Asteroid Competition 2019. The competition challenged students and young professionals worldwide to develop original ideas relating to Near-Earth Objects. The scholarship enables one outstanding SGAC member to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress and the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington D.C., United States.
SGAC in cooperation with OHB are pleased to announce Matej Poliaček and Stefan Panajotović as the winners of the 2019 SGAC - OHB SE Competition. This competition sought innovative ideas on technologies, missions, methods, policies and/or legal frameworks that will help humanity to fight against climate change using space technology.
SGAC and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (KFAS) are proud to announce that 4 students and young professionals will be sponsored to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress (October 17-19) and the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) (Oct 21-25) in Washington DC, USA.
SGAC held elections in May to elect the next Regional Coordinator (RC) in the African Region. We are happy to announce the selection of Rania Toukebri (Tunisia) as the new Regional Coordinator for Africa.
Based on the success of the 1st European Space Generation Workshop (E-SGW) held in Budapest (Hungary), the 2nd E-SGW held in Paris (France), the 3rd E-SGW held in Bucharest (Romania) and the 4th European Space Generation Workshop (E-SGW) held in London (UK), SGAC will organise the 5th European Space Generation Workshop in 2020 and we are looking for the perfect place for this event.
VIENNA, 20 June 2019 (United Nations Information Service) — At a side event on Space for Youth held during the 62nd session of the Committee on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) announced the winners of the inaugural Space for Youth Competition.
SGAC is proud to announce that one outstanding SGAC member has been selected to win the International Lunar Exploration Working Group Award. The ILEWG Award will partially cover the expenses up to a maximum amount of 300 EUR incurred by the winner to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress (SGC) (October 17-19 2019) and the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) (21 - 25 October 2019) held in Washington D.C., USA.
One of the main missions of SGAC is to facilitate access to the world’s major space conferences for young professionals and students. The Space Generation Leadership Award enables five outstanding SGAC members to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress and the 70th International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC, United States.
SGAC and the Malisetti Foundation are proud to announce that Chinmayee Raj will be sponsored to attend the 18th Space Generation Congress (SGC) and the 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Washington, D.C., USA.
In May 2018, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) and the Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) announced a call for projects, open to all countries of the United Nations, to be flown aboard the Chinese Space Station in 2022. In total, 42 projects were presented from 27 different countries. From that, 17 were shortlisted at the beginning of 2019 and finally, last Wednesday during the general session of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, a list of the final 9 selected projects was disclosed; one of these selected projects was presented by six SGAC members from Peru, Colombia and Spain, in the Peruvian and the Spanish chapters of The Mars Society.
