This year the RHEA Group is sponsoring a new dimension to the SECESA event, the ‘Students Forum’. This forum will enable students who would normally contribute illustrated papers during the poster session, to present their paper/talk via a dedicated channel broadcasting during the event coffee and lunch breaks, on Wednesday 30 September and Thursday 1 October. 

The Students Forum will complement the main conference stream and provide the audience with the opportunity to discover new and fresh ideas proposed by academia. 

The benefit of a Student Forum is to:

• give students the opportunity to get more involved in the conference and to promote their works to the SECESA community 
• allow students to obtain visibility amongst agencies, industry and other organisations
• Create awareness of concurrent design activities taking place in universities and the educational value of concurrent engineering
• Attract more students into concurrent design activities
• Support ESA’s mandate to inspire young generations to work in the space sector
• Demonstrate RHEA’s interest and support in attracting students into concurrent design

RHEA Group is main sponsor for this initiative.