ESA ESERO Project: Summer Workshop for Secondary School Science Teachers

The International Space Station, the largest laboratory ever built in space, is the result of many years of cooperation between the USA, Russia, Canada, Japan and Europe.


This illustration shows the Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV, that carries food, clothing, fuel tanks, air and drinking water to the ISS crew.

The first launch of this supply vessel in 2008 marked the first ever rendezvous and docking of a European spacecraft in orbit.


Credits: V. Bétoulaud

The European Space Agency is providing many innovative and inspiring aids to teachers to enhance their curriculum with space related subjects. Now ESA is inviting educators to a summer workshop at its establishment in the Netherlands from 28 to 30 June 2010.

ESA’s Directorate of Human Spaceflight has been using the International Space Station as a 'classroom in space' for many educational events and for the production of educational material made available to teachers, science educators and all interested.

ISS will continue in orbit till at least 2020 – and the educational side of the ISS will be even stonger in the future as the focus of the ISS activities is being turned from construction to routine operation.

For more information contact ESA directly by following this link