Europe’s own Global Navigation Satellite System

A wide range of activities from elementary schools to universities, using space as a learning, teaching and training context

Inspiring and enabling entrepeneurs to turn space-connected ideas into successful commercial businesses

Food production in space presented to pupils via a live ISS link

An illumination test was performed by Paolo Nespoli in connection with the ‘Greenhouse in Space’ education project on 26 December 2010. This is an education project where the concept of fresh food production in space is related to the biology and science curriculums of 12 to 14 year olds through film and ISS live link activities.

Interactive activities for schools via a live link with the ISS

Membrane-based filtration system that treats contaminated water and removes unwanted particles and microorganisms

End to End optimisation of mobile satcoms to trains

A distance-learning service for the medical professions in Europe

The European Medical Network (EMN) was formed to create a distance-learning service for the medical professions in Europe; at its core is a menu-driven digital satellite broadcast combined with an Internet Service. A pilot project was launched in order to assess and verify the acceptance of the proposed service by the target groups, its operational feasibility throughout the entire value chain, and the financial feasibility of all separate steps as pro rata business plan budgets.

European Microgravity Database for Clinical Research

This project concerns a proposed database for:

● collecting experimental and health monitoring data and;

● accessing it for research purposes by the scientific user community.

E-learning sessions broadcasted from the ISS