The Aerospace Engineering student society Sipke Wynia of the Hogeschool InHolland organizes their annual symposium on May the 29^th with the theme “Durability and growth of efficiency”. The program will have speakers from ground to space talking about sustainability.

Among the speakers are NVR editorial staff member Michel van Pelt who will tell about ESA’s clean space initiative and member of honour André Kuipers about sustainability and the ISS.

Program:

09:15 Walk-in

10:00 Opening

10:15 Paul de Witte – Royal Netherlands Airforce

10:40 Johan van Deventer – Royal Netherlands Airforce

11:20 Lunch

12:15 Airborne presentation

12:25 Michel van Pelt – ESA

13:35 Break

14:00 André Kuipers

15:30 Conclusion by Frank Jansen

15:45 Network Drink

17:30 End Symposium 2019

The NVR offers 30 of its members a € 7,50 discount on the external entrance fee of € 15. You can sign up by sending an e-mail with your name and affiliation to secretariaat@ruimtevaart-nvr.nl after which you’ll receive a confirmation and request for payment of the € 7,50 entrance fee. The NVR will take care of the subscription to the symposium.