Our team and mission

The STEM Education and Outreach Unit takes care of the ESA STEM Learning and Inspiration Programme targeting 3-18 years-old youngsters, directly or through their teachers and educators. This programme is structured along two synergetic blocks, as follows:

• Learn with Space, initiatives to support teachers and educators from formal and non-formal education venues, starting from early-ages up to upper secondary age-groups, such as professional teacher and educator training, didactics resources, interdisciplinary school projects, thematic workshops and hackathons, inspirational activities and camps and an international community of practice. Such activities are implemented at national level through the ESA ESERO project (www.esa.int/esero), a network of dedicated national offices and consortia of partners established by ESA in its Member and Associate States.

• Let Space Inspire You, inspirational events, role modelling, career awareness initiatives, and access to space experts for youth and their families to be attracted to space and STEM, and understand their importance for society and economy. In doing so, help to break diversity barriers, boost accessibility, and promote sustainability for a better future. 

You are encouraged to visit the ESA website: http://www.esa.int

Field(s) of activity/research for the traineeship

As a Young Graduate Trainee, you will contribute to the activities of the STEM Learning and Inspiration programme (early-age and school-age education), in particular in the framework of the Let Space Inspire You activity set introduced above.

Throughout the traineeship, you will have the opportunity to: 

• support the design, organisation and implementation of inspirational space events and non-formal/informal education activities for young people and/or their educators, physically and/or online; 
• support inspirational activities involving ESA astronauts, including inputs for in-flight operations and related outreach products for publication; 
• contribute to initiatives involving career awareness, role modelling, access to ESA experts; 
• support the planning and implementation of communication actions such as communication plans/schedules related to ESA Education activities, inputs to content creation for the education online channels (web, social, TV) and other promotional materials (printed and exhibition materials, goodies); 
• interact with ESA space experts for scientific validation purposes and to identify content and themes relevant for inspiration and outreach activities, and with other interfaces internal and external to ESA as relevant for the assigned inspiration and communication tasks; 
• support the other activities of the STEM Learning and Inspiration programme, and of the ESA Education Programme in general, including reporting, presentations and promotion, where requested.

Technical competencies

Behavioural competencies

Result Orientation

Operational Efficiency

Fostering Cooperation

Relationship Management

Continuous Improvement

Forward Thinking

Education

You should have just completed, or be in the final year of your Master’ s degree in a scientific or technical discipline.

Additional requirements

You should have good interpersonal and communication skills and should be able to work in a multicultural environment, both independently and as part of a team.

Specific competence/additional studies/qualifications and/or experience in one of the following disciplines shall be considered as assets: school-level STEM education (e.g teaching qualification); institutional relations; space-related knowledge. 

The working languages of the Agency are English and French. A good knowledge of one of these is required. Knowledge of another Member State language would be an asset.

During the interview motivation and overall professional perspective/career goals will also be explored.