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On Monday 17 June 2024, FutureSpace researcher Joseph Popper participated in an open conversation with Reinhard Tlustos from the Austrian Space Forum at Galerie RAUMINHALT in Vienna, where they each shared and explored different methods and approaches to creating space simulations and staging...
Click here for article | Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Assistant Professor at the Institute for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna, talks about the reole of the Ariane 6 for Europe in the Podcast Edition Zukunft of the Austrian newspaper Der Standard.
Click here for article | Our researchers who are members of the UN affiliated Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) that represents university students and young professionals have collaborated to write a short summary of the FutureSpace Project and its ambitions for the SGAC newsletter
Nina Klimburg-Witjes was invited to the Expert Hearing for the UNESCO World Commission on the Ethics of Science and Technology (COMEST), Working Group on the Ethics of Astro-biological Research and Human Expansion in Outer Space to provide insights on the future governance and sustainability...
From May 6-8, 2024 FutureSpace went to Oslo for a 2-day workshop with our colleagues from the ERC funded project CoFUTURES to present and discuss our interests, methodologies and potential synergies to explore multiple futures in the making! Co-futures studies the recent proliferation of fiction...
How to get started with a PhD project? How to find your topic and stay true to your interests and values through the highs and lows of independent research? How do you find your own voice as a scholar? And, perhaps most importantly, how to make sure you enjoy the PhD journey despite the challenges...
As part of the programme booklet for the new production of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's "The Physicists" at the Landestheater Niederösterreich, Julia Engelmayer conducted an interview with Nina Klimburg-Witjes on the question "What visions of the future is our research based on?". Enjoy the read!
It is our pleasure to invite you to the second edition of the FutureSpace Talks series! On Thursday 18th April (16:00–17:00) we are delighted to host Anna Szolucha of Jagiellonian University in Kraków, who will present her research that examines the social roles of space exploration...
On April 12th, Nina Klimburg-Witjes, along with her colleagues Xiao Shan Yap (EPFL) and Claudia Röösli (University of Zurich), will address the challenges confronting the global space community due to the growing congestion of near-Earth space. This discussion is part of the “The Future of Near-Earth Space” conference hosted by the Istituto Svizzero.
Click here for article | As part of the “Junge-Akademie-Blog” of the Der Standard Newspaper Nina Klimburg-Witjes, Philipp Kürten and Kai Strycker give an overview of the current situation of the European Space Industry, especially in the light of the ongoing new Space Race.