Created by the "Defence & Aerospace" Chair, the "Defence & Space" Summer School aims to share, through a global and multidisciplinary approach, knowledge on the place of space in international security and to awaken its listeners to the issues and challenges that this new operational field and conflictuality could constitute in the 21st century. It also addresses the way in which France, the EU and the Alliance conceive its use to protect themselves or to put themselves in a position for political and operational actions. Finally, it deals with the economic dimension of defence space and provides an insight into the national and European defence industrial and technological base (DITB).
Well-known experts
The Summer School calls upon high-level experts on strategic, operational, economic and industrial issues related to space. Their mission is to put into perspective the major security issues and the challenges of the space environment for the coming decades and to place their discourse in a logic of strategic anticipation. They come from national and European space institutions, the armed forces, universities and the space industry.
A lively and participative pedagogy
In an evolving context of international conflict and the emergence of new areas of conflict, the Summer School guides its students towards an understanding of the defence issues affecting the specific field of space. To this end, it takes up what has made it so successful for several years:
- a multidisciplinary approach to space defence issues (geostrategy of space powers; national, European and international defence space strategies; space physics and exploitation for defence purposes; space operations; space economy and industry; etc.); - speeches and exchanges with high-level experts from European space institutions, the French Armed Forces, university research and the space industry; - a visit to an industrial site of the space ecosystem (for face-to-face students).
Participation in the Defence & Space Summer School does not require any particular technical knowledge and is pedagogically accessible to all students in or coming from higher education.
Application
The candidate may choose to register for face-to-face participation (within the limits of the places offered) or for distance learning (without any limit of places). Registration is compulsory for all participants.
Each application (online form) will include a brief biography and motivation, indicating the academic (student, teacher, researcher) or professional (civilian or military) reasons why the applicant wishes to participate in the summer school. Among the elements that will motivate the prioritisation of the applications, the following will be taken into account
- The nature of the academic or professional activities of the candidates (students and researchers in the space field, industrialists of the ASD industry, military working in the French and European space field); - The interest of the summer school to promote employment or lifelong learning; - Their ability to master the French language in its strategic, economic and technical dimensions.
Professional candidates may be registered for continuing education. If this is the case, they will be put in touch with the Sciences Po Bordeaux continuing education department. All participants will receive a training certificate at the end of the Summer School if the minimum criteria are met: participation in at least one conference per day and in 6 of the 9 conferences scheduled.
Regarding the participation fees, those attending the distance learning version will be exempted. In the face-to-face version, the fees, which are intended to cover logistical costs, will be 100€ for a student and 200€ for a professional, including academics.
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