Five years of the international SEEDS Master Course A contribution to Space Exploration (original) (raw)

After five successful editions the international post-degree programme SEEDS (SpacE Exploration and Development Systems) deserves some reflections to take advantage of the past experience and to provide some hints for its future continuation. Its original formula based on four main features: i) the focus on space exploration (rather than on space utilization), ii) the European dimension, iii) the ambitious project work activity performed in three countries and iv) the approach based on system engineering, demonstrated extremely fruitful from the point of view of the stakeholders (the European space industry and Agencies) but was difficult to manage in absence of a constantly assured support at the continental level.