Space lands in Swedish classrooms with ESERO Sweden

ESERO is the European Space Company (ESA) flagship project in aid of faculty education. For a lot more than 15 decades ESERO has utilized the inspirational electricity of house for the teaching and discovering of STEM (Science, Technological innovation, Engineering and Mathematics) subjects at faculty – a very helpful method adopted by hundreds of hundreds of lecturers throughout Europe due to the fact the task started out.

ESERO Sweden was inaugurated during a dedicated function hosted by the Countrywide Museum of Science and Engineering in Stockholm (Tekniska) and held at the existence of Anna Rathsman, Director Basic of Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA), Elena Grifoni Head of ESA Director General’s Cupboard, and Christer Fuglesang, Director of the KTH Room Heart and former ESA astronaut.

“Sweden has a large custom in the room domain, with a wealth of knowledge in science and engineering repeatedly generated for the benefit of our society and financial system,” reported Anna Rathsman. “In these kinds of a context, the ESERO job signifies a great way to connect the electricity of space – information, know-how, creativeness, innovation, eyesight – to the education and learning of our youngsters. Space performs an ever more very important role in the working of our society and it can be pretty powerful resource at disposal of training.”

At European stage, the ESERO project is driven by one overarching goal: boosting the training and discovering of STEM disciplines by making use of area. The winning recipe for ESERO, operate under the coordination of ESA, is the contribution to the job of numerous organisations and establishments at countrywide stage, each individual bringing their possess skills and potential. Each ESERO is capable to tailor functions to the countrywide STEM training curricula, wants and context, when benefitting from the constant exchange of greatest tactics and means inside of the ESERO community.

“We feel Education and learning performs a fundamental part to get ready the potential workforce that will change Europe’s space strategy and ambitions into fact,” explained Elena Grifoni. “Furthermore, we consider in the value of bringing science and technological innovation education to all, as we want to add to establish generations of long term citizens who are educated, capable to decide and act responsibly, and who are geared up to facial area the challenges of the future, these as climate transform and extra, regardless of what profession they pick out. Education and learning is very important to ESA, and still one more way in which ESA can bring a precious return to its member states and to culture at significant,” she concluded.

ESERO in Sweden

Beneath the management of KTH Royal Institute of Technological innovation, and with the continuous assistance of ESA and the SNSA, ESERO Sweden depends on the academic and pedagogical abilities of key nationwide associates, these kinds of as the National Museum of Science and Technological know-how and the Wisdom consortium, with its centres situated throughout Sweden. KTH and its associates have an substantial knowledge in trainer teaching, in the generation of arms-on and inquiry-centered understanding sources in assistance of the nationwide STEM curriculum, and in the use of place as a topic to encourage pupils to go after science and know-how studies and professions.

In-services and pre-support trainer education will type the backbone of the ESERO Sweden action portfolio, where the real-life space context sets the scene for progressive curricular routines in the classroom. ESERO Sweden will also supply free classroom products, interdisciplinary college projects, info on STEM professions, as effectively as access to purpose types from the nationwide area field and academia.

ESERO in Europe

With Sweden joining in, the European community of ESERO offices now handles 19 ESA Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Eire, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, and the Uk.

ESERO is element of the ESA Education and learning Programme, an ESA required exercise explicitly pointed out in the ESA Convention. The ESA Instruction programme at this time targets the instruction of younger individuals from faculty to college amount, by a rich portfolio of actions meant to improve youngsters’ STEM literacy, skills and competences, to really encourage and empower them to pursue scientific tests and careers in the STEM sector – room in distinct, to increase their recognition of the significance of area in contemporary society and overall economy, and to promote the wealth of direct and oblique specialist options room presents. 

In certain, schooling occupies a distinctive put in the existing programmatic manifesto of ESA, Agenda 2025, which – reinforced by the the latest recommendations of the Large-Degree Advisory Team – is stressing the virtuous transformative affect of place on modern society, and identifies impressed STEM education as a elementary enabler to form, attract and retain the ideal abilities to the room sector in favour of culture at massive.

Sweden in house

Sweden has a prolonged tradition in room pursuits, started extra than 60 several years ago.

Swedish room businesses are internationally aggressive and Swedish technologies innovations are discovered on many rockets and satellites in Europe and all over the world. The Swedish Nationwide House Agency (SNSA) has financed 7 Swedish satellite tasks to date, quite a few of them in global cooperation: Viking, Freja, Astrid 1, Astrid 2, Odin, Prisma and Mats. Moreover, Swedish scientists and engineers have participated in Swedish and European room programmes for a long time.

Swedish popularity in room went rocket-large during Xmas 2006, when ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang became the initial at any time astronaut of Swedish nationality to start to the Global Area Station on his mission Celsius, named soon after the 18th-century Swedish astronomer.

Sweden also hosts Esrange, the major civilian place centre in Europe, about 40 kilometres from Kiruna, northern Sweden. A rocket range and investigate centre, Esrange is operational since 1966 and is employed by the intercontinental scientific group for microgravity and atmospheric study on sounding rockets, large altitude balloons for astronomy and atmospheric exploration, and fall checks of place and aerial automobiles. The ESA Education and learning programme by itself gains from Esrange and Swedish experience via REXUS/BEXUS, a SNSA/DLR challenge with ESA participation, intended for college pupils to carry out scientific and technological experiments on sounding rockets and stratospheric balloons.

ESERO Sweden: www.esero.se   

SNSA and the Swedish house programme: www.rymdstyrelsen.se/en/

ESA and the European Area Programme: www.esa.int

ESA Education Programme: www.esa.int/instruction