World Space Week 2024: Space & Climate Change
Each year, the World Space Week Association (WSWA) selects a theme for the upcoming World Space Week (WSW) to provide a focus for activities and events taking place around the world, October 4-10.
The World Space Week 2024 theme, “Space and Climate Change,” highlights the crucial role space technologies play in addressing one of the most pressing global challenges: climate change. From monitoring Earth’s changing climate to developing innovative solutions for sustainability, space is its stronghold in protecting the planet.
Advances in satellite technology and data analytics allow us unprecedented access to detailed environmental data, enabling more accurate climate modeling and informed decision-making. Space-based solutions are empowering governments, industries, and communities around the world to mitigate and adapt to the effects of climate.
World Space Week 2024 aims to inspire students around the world to pursue a STEM education, emphasizing the importance of space technology in climate science. It will also serve as a platform for critical discussions on leveraging space innovations to build a more sustainable future for all.
The year-on-year growth of World Space Week reflects the widespread acceptance of this synchronized time frame to celebrate space, inspire students who use it, and promote space programs, policies, and organizations. WSW is celebrated by a network of more than 1,000 space-related organizations—the largest such network in the world, according to WSWA.
Do you want to organize an event at World Space Week 2024?
What is it?
World Space Week is the celebration of the world’s largest space.
It consists of a cycle of events and spatial outreach activities organized by a multitude of entities from around the world, concentrated between October 4 and 10.
It takes place every year in that week to commemorate the launch of the first artificial satellite (Sputnik I, 4/OCT/1957) and the entry into force of the treaty on the principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space, the Moon and other celestial bodies (10/OCT/1967).
Why should you participate?
- To increase the visibility/recognition of your organization in online and offline media.
- Build and maintain a global network in this industry and contribute directly to the development of space science and technology in Spain.
- Educate society on the benefits they receive from space science and technology, as well as inspire young people in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
- Promote greater use of space technology for the sustainable economic development of the country and demonstrate the existence of public support for space programs.
- To promote international cooperation in space education and dissemination.
Objectives
- Help inspire and awaken vocations in students
- Makes public support for science and development in the space field visible and tangible
- Gain greater public awareness of space activities
- Promote international cooperation in space and education
What is our role?
As part of our work as an ESA broker in Spain, our ultimate objective is to promote technology transfer and adapt possible synergies between the space sector and other application sectors.
In this sense, during the last years Knowledge Innovation Market – KIM has organized during this week of October different activities together with specialist collaborators, with which to bring the space sector closer to the citizens.
We are National Coordinators of the World Space Week in Spain since 2019. In this role, we seek to promote this type of activities throughout the territory. We are contacting organizations potentially interested in holding their own activities related to this global event.
Our objective is to build and promote a network of activities and events related to space, providing the support and guidance necessary for the optimal development of these activities.
If you have any questions, contact us!
Do you have any doubt?
Contact us! We advise you on the type of activities admitted, procedures … If you meet the requirements, we will include it in the calendar and the global map and we will disseminate it through the web and social networks.
Relevant figures
In 2019 8,000 events and more than 96 different countries were held.
Since this annual commemoration was launched, around 2,000,000 attendees have participated in activities associated with the event.
Since 2007 approximately 500,000,000 press references.
WSW23: Our activities
These are our activities this year
4 OCT 23 | PMT – EETAC (Castelldefels, Barcelona)
PocketQube: Educational Proposal for Aerospace Technology
Mercè Cuixart · Project Manager |
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Previous editions
World Space Week 2022 | Space & sustainability
The theme was inspired by how sustainability in space relates to how humanity uses space, most pressingly, the orbital area surrounding Earth-itself a finite resource.
There is a much greater story to tell in terms of how space exploration and remote Earth observation can help drive change for our own home planet. This includes measuring climate change, identifying pollution on land and at sea, supporting agriculture in developing nations-an endless list. Of the 169 targets that form the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, 65 directly benefit through Earth observation satellites and related technologies. Achieving the SDGs would be so much harder without the tools and techniques available to scientists through space exploration.
World Space Week 2021 | Women in Space
The theme chosen this year is “Women in Space”. The objective is to value the contribution of female figures in the space race and promote vocations in the new generations.
Just over 500 people who have been in space. But fewer than 70 have been women. These include Valentina Tereshkova (1962), Svetlana Savotskaja (1982), Sally Ride (1983) and Eileen Collins (1999).
World Space Week 2020
Cycle of webinars | Galileo: The European satellite navigation system in Latin America
Organizers: Knowledge Innovation Market – KIM, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid Aerospace Cluster.
Fecha: September 30th – October 15th, 2020
Web: https://kimglobal.com/es/evento/webinars-gic/
SEPTEMBER, 30th | 14:00h UTC
Why Galileo? Description, systems and services
In this webinar the potentialities of the Galileo and GNSS for its practical application in Latin America were exposed.
SCHEDULE:
- 16:00h CEST
- 11:00h Santiago de Chile, Chile // Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 10:00h La Paz, Bolivia
- 09:00h Quito, Ecuador // Bogotá, Colombia
PONENTES:
- Vanesa Ramos
Galileo Information Centre – Chile Coordinator - Luis Cuervo
DG-DEFIS at European Comission - José Luis Martín
European Service Centre GNSS (GSC) User Support Services
OCTOBER 15th | 14:00h UTC
Galileo en la práctica: Casos de uso
In this webinar we’ll see two practical applications of Galileo: in the extensive livestock sector and in the precise location of underground pipes.
PONENTES:
- Adrià Martínez
CTO at Ixoriguè Technologies - Ignasi Cairó
CTO Co-funder at Witeklab
SCHEDULE:
- 16:00h CEST
- 11:00h Santiago de Chile, Chile // Buenos Aires, Argentina
- 10:00h La Paz, Bolivia
- 09:00h Quito, Ecuador // Bogotá, Colombia
Interviews with aerospace entities
Date: October 5th 2020
FAQs New Space
Date: October 5th, 2020
Online debate
Date: October 7th, 2020
Web: https://www.meetup.com/es-ES/GoHub-Meetups/events/273500502/
CONFERENCE
How satellites improve life: Spanish entrepreneurs travel to space
Our colleague Vanesa Ramos has participated in this initiative, where she presented the Galileo Information Centre in Santiago de Chile.
World Space Week 2019
Free workshop “3, 2, 1… Launch!”
Training: “SAR Technology: An innovative solution in Earth Observation”
Children’s and youth scientific dissemination contest
Cineforum
European Space Talk in Madrid
Taller gratuito de acceso al sistema de licitaciones ESA EMITS
2018 Edition
Photo contest
INSTAGRAM · 4-10/OCT/2018
Participants were required to post a space-related photograph on Instagram.
The winner obtained a double ticket for a night visit, with a glass of cava, conference, observation of the night sky at the Observatori Fabra.
Lab-Workshop of Digital Creation and Manufacture
UPC CAMUPUS – CASTELLDEFELS · 10/OCT/2018 · 18-20h
KIM and Tinkerers Fab Lab held this workshop on digital creation and fabrication, titled “How to Use Digital Fabrication for Small Space Technology Projects”.
The agenda consisted in a visit to the center and a subsequent demonstration for students and families.
Conference “Statistics as a grammar of science”
SABADELL · 10/OCT/2018 · 20h
Within the World Space Week 2018, KIM and the Agrupació Astronòmica de Sabadell held this conference, given by Jaume Llopis, entitled “Statistics as a grammar of science”, aimed at a specialized adult audience
Cinefórum: “Ikarie Xb 1” and colloquium with Miquel Sureda and Antoni Paz
BARCELONA · 10/OCT/2018 · 21:15h
On the occasion of World Space Week 2018, KIM and Zumzeig Cinecooperativa organized a film forum on the film Ikarie Xb 1, with aerospace expert Miquel Sureda, Master Coordinator – MASE ESEIAAT – UPC, and Antoni Paz, executive director of KIM.
Edición 2017
Presentation: Data compression for space, ground and maritime applications
BARCELONA · 4/OCT/2017
Presentation by Dr. Jordi Portell (DAPCOM) from Fully Adaptive Prediction Error Coder (FAPEC), a novel data compression solution initially conceived by researchers at the UPC and UB to overcome the limitations of other standards in environments with loss of data, like aerospace.
BCN Space Meeting 2017
BARCELONA · 9/OCT/2017
The Mobile World Centre hosted this space culture promotion meeting on October 9, 2017 with the aim of learning about aerospace technologies being developed by technology centers and start-ups. The BCN SPACE MEETING was a meeting day for companies in the aerospace sector in which, through talks, demonstrations and showcases, they were able to publicize their current situation and know first-hand what technologies are being developed or used by start-ups. and technology centers.
Webinar Design Thinking: Space technology available to everyone
ONLINE · 9/OCT/2017
In this online workshop, an attempt was made to expose through the Design Thinking methodology the possible synergies between the space sector and other sectors in a dynamic and participatory environment. The assistance of technological organizations from “non-space” sectors was sought, which bet on the generation of new opportunities, and sought to improve their products / services, adding value through the implementation of innovative solutions.
Workshop Exploring spatial synergies
MADRID · 10/OCT/2017
Continuing with the search for synergies between the space and non-space sector, a face-to-face workshop was held with a selection of companies from different sectors, linked or not to the space sector, so that they could delve into possible synergies with space technologies, explore the presentation of technological challenges of your company and even assess the implementation of innovative and viable solutions.
Debate: Do we’ll colonize other worlds?
BARCELONA · 10/OCT/2017
Stephen Hawking said that humanity needs to colonize other planets to escape extinction. He did not say that as a species we had two newscasts, but more or less. Specifically, this scientist believed that the end of the world is approaching by leaps and bounds. Most likely we will not count another thousand years, a small sigh in geological time.
As a finishing touch to the WSW 2017 we have discussed with four experts the options that open up to us towards a future exploring other planets.
