We are pleased to announce the WIA-Europe Awards & Grants recipients for 2026! Congratulations to Heba Gaballa and Alissa Pott. WIA-Europe is devoted to supporting its members through a variety of initiatives that encourage emerging talent and support professionals dedicated to growing a gender-balanced aerospace community and advancing the aerospace industry as a whole. The WIA-Europe […]
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Grants & Awards Committee Member Réka Szabó is an early-career space engineer and applied mathematician, currently working at CERN. She has gained international experience across research and industry, including traineeships at Wizz Air, the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, and EUMETSAT. An alumna of several ESA Academy programs, she has co-authored publications in
We’re pleased to announce that applications are now open for the yearly WIA-Europe Grants and Awards programme. Application deadline: 4th May 2026 Days Hours Minutes Seconds The programme offers two exciting opportunities: WIA-Europe Student Conference Grant: Are you a Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD student in Europe with a passion for aerospace? Apply for our Student
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Board Member & Co-Chair Professor Dr. Kai-Uwe Schrogl is the Special Adviser for Political Affairs of the European Space Agency ESA. Before, he was seconded from ESA to the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy in Berlin to support the German Presidency of the Council of the European Union. Until 2019, he was the
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Co-Chair Natacha Callens graduated with a double PhD in Physics awarded by the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and the Université Libre de Bruxelles. She started her career in the space sector as local research manager of the ESA/PRODEX project BIOMICS (BIOMImetic and Cellular Systems) successfully launched in the MASER 11 sounding rocket. She joined the ESA Education
We are pleased to announce the 2025 WIA-Europe Awards & Grants recipients.
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ESA-ESRIN headquarters: Simonetta Cheli, Frascati (Italy), Nov 2021 © Guglielmo de’ Micheli for ESA  Simonetta Cheli, Director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA and recipient of the Women In Aerospace (WIA-Europe) Outstanding Achievement Awards 2024, shared her insights on the key actions and decisions that shaped her career, highlighting the importance of continuous learning,
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Women in Aerospace Europe would like to congratulate the following winners of the WIA-Europe 2024 Grants and Awards! WIA-Europe is devoted to providing support to its members through a variety of initiatives that strive to encourage upcoming talent and to support professionals dedicated to growing a gender-balanced aerospace community and who look to advance the
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Women in Aerospace Europe (WIA-E) would like to congratulate the following winners of the WIA-Europe 2023 Grants and Awards! WIA-Europe is devoted to providing support to its members through a variety of initiatives that strive to encourage upcoming talent and to support professionals dedicated to growing a gender-balanced aerospace community and who look to advance
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We are pleased to announce the winners of WIA-Europe Grants and Awards 2021. With the support of our new partner Fondazione Amaldi, the Awards and Grants will be presented to the winners during the New Space Economy Symposium in Rome in December 2022. WIA-E GRANT WINNERS Within the Grants & Awards programme, WIA-Europe provides Grants
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