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On 18 September 2010, WIA Europe member and European Space Agency astronaut, Samantha Cristoforetti, was awarded the prize “Premio Casato Prime Donna” in Tuscany, Italy, for her outstanding activities. This prize includes a sum of €2000 which Samantha kindly decided to donate to the WIA Europe Mentoring Programme. Samantha’s very generous gift, for which WIA […]

Simonetta Di Pippo, WIA Europe President, has been awarded with the ‘Silver Medal of the President of the Italian Republic’ for her contribution to the Space Engineering sector. On 29 May 2010 the 28th edition of the ceremony for the delivery of the International Prize “Sebetia-Ter 2010” took place in Naples at the Villa Doria

Space News has published an interview with Claudia Kessler, the Chair of the Board of WIA Europe. Click here to read the article.

Chair of the ESA Ministerial Conference and Research and Education Minister has given High Patronage to Women in Aerospace Europe. In a personal letter addressed to Mrs. Simonetta Di Pippo, President of the Women in Aerospace Europe association, the current Chair of the ESA Ministerial Conference and Italian Minister for Education, University and Research, Hon.

Since May this year, women working in Aerospace in Europe have their own association devoted to expand women’s opportunities for leadership and increase their visibility in the aerospace community, also through the creation of a network in Europe and across the globe. WIA Europe was initiated by Simonetta Di Pippo (ESA Director of Human Spaceflight)

We are very happy to introduce you to our new corporate member the European Space Policy Institute, who joined as a Non-Profit member.