E1.3 Space Renaissance for All: Workforce Development, Research, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Astronautics, Diversity and Inclusion with LUNEX
Symposium: E1. IAF SPACE EDUCATION AND OUTREACH SYMPOSIUM
Session: 3. On Track: Undergraduate Space Education
Day: Tuesday 30.09.2025
Time: 15:00
Room: C4.3
Bernard FOING
Space Renaissance International, President; ILEWG, Executive; LUNEX, CEO; Qosmosys, Chief Scientist
Netherlands
In this talk Professor Bernard Foing reviews the initiatives from International Lunar Exploration Working Group (ILEWG) LUNEX EuroMoonMars, EuroSpaceHub Academy and partners contributing to WorkForce Development for Space and Planetary Research and Innovation, building onInterdisciplinarity, Diversity, Access for All , Astronautics and Entrepreneurship. Lunex EuroMoonMars has been organizing a programme of data analysis, instrumentation tests, field work and analog missions for students and researchers in different locations worldwide since 2009, including Hawaii HI-SEAs, Utah MDRS, Iceland, Etna/ Vulcano Italy, Atacama, AATC Poland, ESTEC Netherlands, and Eifel Germany. Analogue missions provide a practical ground in which students can test the notions learnt at the university in a realistic simulation context. Over the course of these missions, students have access to special Space instrumentation, laboratories, Facilities, Science Operations, Human Robotic partnerships.