Saturday 6 February marks a key event: the “Space Culture. An opportunity for Youth Formation and the Development of new Professions” Round Table, with contributions from the City of Rome, the University of la “Sapienza,” ASI, IEEE and AIDAA. The conference will feature discussions on training by important individuals in the university, research and industry fields.

“In past decades, the Aerospace industry  established itself as the industry most characterized b intensive research – says Paolo Gaudenzi, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Astronautics at the University della Sapienza – In certain companies the level of investment reaches 30% of all profits, a much higher percentage than in other high-tech industries. For the European aerospace industry it is thus necessary to continuously enrol young motivated and talented specialists and engineers, on a national level, but also throughout Europe and the world.”
A meeting to discuss those professions that will see the most development in the aerospace business in the near future, and those “background job” opportunities that are developing with the advent of the new European navigation system, the large scale Earth Observation systems in progress and, for the more adventurous field of exploration, with journeys to the Moon and Mars.
The Round Table is defined in three moments: the role of scholastic and University-Scientific Institutions, the specializations and scientific centre “case studies”, which have “already launched students in orbit” with applications studied and built entirely by young researchers.

On Saturday only, the R2B (Research to Business) Meetings will be held in the “Space Italy” area. Here, students and interested researchers will have the chance to meet representatives from the various associations, industries and research institutions to gain information on  new Space professions and their educational and training paths
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To conclude the day’s events, the Diploma in “Master in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Rome – Tor Vergata” session will take place in its devoted conference room.

At the Meeting will take part the Space Academy Foundation. Partners are Telespazio, Thales Alenia Space and the University of Aquila, who together fallow high-level training, research and develop of  competencies in space systems for Telecommunication, navigation, scientific research and orbital infrastructures and operates through residential masters’ programmes at the space centres, summer/winter schools, scientific congresses, workshops and conferences with international experts.