WIA Europe president Simonetta Di Pippo features in a book published in Italy on 15 June 2010, which tells the story of 54 “talented women” who excelled in their respective professional fields ranging form science to culture and art. The common denominator amongst all these women is their ability to successfully reconcile their professional life […]
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Dr Maria Antonietta Perino, from Thales Alenia Spazio Italy and a member of WIA Europe from the beginning, has been elected to the Bureau of the International Astronautical Federation together with Ms Lyn Wygbels from WIA USA. We would like to congratulate them both on this achievement.
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Forty-eight people attended the Women In Aerospace Europe Networking breakfast, which was held with great success at the Corinthia Hotel in Prague within the framework of IAC 2010.
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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
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The WIA Europe networking event at COSPAR turned out to be a great success with over ninety people pre-registering but more than two hundred actually joining on the day itself. Claudia Kessler, WIA Europe Chair, and Andrea Boese, WIA Europe Director of International Relations gave a brief welcome speech to the international audience. Lancaster cosmetics
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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
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We promised we would organise meetings on a regular basis at aerospace-related events and are proud to announce that at ILA 2010 we organised our first panel discussion entitled “How can more women in the aerospace business get into leadership positions?”. Questions on how more women can be brought into leadership positions in the aerospace
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Space News has published an interview with Claudia Kessler, the Chair of the Board of WIA Europe. Click here to read the article.
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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.
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Around 20 people attended WIA Europe’s second General Assembly at ESTEC, including ESA DG Jean-Jacques Dordain.
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