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The COSPAR Capacity Building Initiative

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posted on 2020-07-14, 13:42 authored by Carlos Gabriel, Diego Altamirano, Dieter Bilitza, Raffaella D’Amicis, Jean-Louis Fellous, Alexi Glover, Aaron Janofsky, Ernesto López-Baeza, Mariano Méndez, Randall Smith, Z. Bob Su
The Capacity Building Programme (CBP) is considered today one of the flagships of COSPAR (Committeeon Space Research) activities. The programme started in 2001 as a tentative project designed to widen expertise in space sciences and promote the use of data archives from space missions in developing countries, as a way to foster in those regions of the world high quality scientific activities. In the past 19 years a total of 35 COSPAR workshops have been held, involving more than 1000 advanced students and young researchers in 21 different developing countries. Participants have learnt in a highly practical manner how to analyse data from diverse space missions, covering practically all Space Science disciplines, from Astronomy to Earth Observation, from Solar Physics to Planetary Sciences, including Ionosphere, Magnetospheric sciences and even Planetary Crystallography. A key tothe success of the CBP has been the strong and selfless engagement of internationally high ranked scientists as well as of the space agencies, ESA, NASA and JAXA. I will discuss in this presentation the history and current status of the Programme, but emphasise the changes we are introducing to make it better, more efficient and wider in scope.

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Citation

Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities, 2019, pp. 271-274

Source

3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities, September 16-18, 2019, Leicester, United Kingdom

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

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Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on Space Educational Activities

Pagination

271-274

Publisher

University of Leicester

isbn

978-1-912989-09-6

Copyright date

2020

Available date

2020-04-15

Notes

Symposium organised by: University of Leicester, UK Students for the Exploration & Development of Space, National Space Academy, ESA Education Office

Editors

Nigel Bannister, Áine O’Brien, Alexander Kinnaird

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University of Leicester, UK

Temporal coverage: start date

2019-09-16

Temporal coverage: end date

2019-09-18

Language

en

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