The European Space Agency (Directorate of Technology, Engineering and Quality and Concurrent Design Facility) is organising the 11th International Systems & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications Conference on 25 - 27 September 2024.

Held on a biannual basis, the conference aims to foster networking and exchange of ideas, experiences, lessons learned and future trends in the area of Systems and Concurrent Engineering (SE&CE), for agencies, companies, organisations, universities and institutes involved in space and related activities.

The first two editions of the Concurrent Engineering Workshops (CEW) were held at ESTEC in 2004 and 2006, focusing on the novelties of the early Concurrent Engineering design centres, methodology and applications.

In 2008 the workshop objectives were expanded to the vast field of Systems Engineering (SE), and the event was named SECESA: “Systems Engineering and Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications”.

Since then, SECESA has been hosted by different European universities, and co-organised with academia chosen via a formal selection process. This approach enables universities to showcase specific areas or projects in which their students excel at utilising SE and CE approaches. Furthermore it supports the Agency's educational objective to inspire young generations of engineers with new methodology and approaches for Systems Engineering, by facilitating their participation in technical sessions.

• La Sapienza University of Rome, in Italy, hosted SECESA 2008 
• Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland, hosted SECESA 2010 
• Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), in Lisbon (Portugal), hosted SECESA 2012 
• Institute of Space Systems (IRS) of the University of Stuttgart, in Germany, hosted SECESA 2014 
• Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingeniería Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ETSIAE) of Madrid, Spain, hosted SECESA 2016 
• Strathclyde University, Glasgow, in UK, hosted SECESA 2018
• Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, SECESA 2020 and SECESA 2022 were held virtually