Fly Your Thesis! 2017 Call for Proposals

Students during parabolic flight

ESA Education is inviting university student teams to submit proposals related to designing, building and flying their experiment in a parabolic flight campaign, which is tentatively scheduled to take place in autumn 2017.

STATUS: CLOSED. ESA Education no longer accepting proposals.

DEADLINE: 16 May 2016 23:59pm CET.

Teams interested in participating in the Fly your Thesis! 2017 programme should submit an accurately completed Experiment Proposal document detailing the description of the experiments that they intend to perform. Experiments are required to be a key part of master or PhD theses, and the subject of the experiments investigations must require availability of microgravity conditions.

ESA will select up to 15 teams to proceed through to the next round. The selection will be solely based on eligibility criteria of the teams, the microgravity relevance, the quality of the proposal, the educational return (based i.a., on the number of students involved,on the relevance of the experiment for Master or PhD graduation theses of one or more team members, as well as on the scientific merit detailed in the Experiment Proposal).

The minimum number of students to be actively involved in each student team is 4, however an active involvement of more students is desirable. The proposals shall also clarify how the student teams intend to cope with a possible turn-over, in order to replace team members who might decide to leave the project.