LDE Space & Society Honours Programme (Leiden-Delft-Erasmus)
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The Honours Academies at Leiden University, Technical University Delft, and Erasmus University (LDE alliance) present the LDE Space & Society Honours Programme Space for second- and third-year bachelor’s students. The programme (15 ECTS) consists of the following elements:
LDE Space Fundamentals and Interactions: lectures about space disciplines and how they interact (7 ECTS)
LDE Space Challenge: designing a solution for an interdisciplinary space challenge and space sector visits and workshops (8 ECTS)
LDE Space Fundamentals and Interactions
In the first part of the programme expert lecturers from the three universities, as well as invited guest speakers, introduce students to key fundamental of the various space disciplines and how these disciplines interact. The lecture programme consists of four modules:
Space Applications & Exploration
Space Business & Innovation
Space Law, Governance & Society
Space Engineering & Technology
In each module the lectures provide the students with the key insights and fundamental knowledge of the module’s disciplines as well as basic understandings and examples of how the fundamentals interact with or influence the disciplines in the other modules. Combined the modules will provide an understanding on the drivers and boundary conditions for space activities and the major global developments in and with the space sector. This fundamental knowledge will prepare them for working on the second, practical part of the programme.
LDE Space Challenge
In the second part of the programme, the Space Challenge, students from the three universities team up to take on real-life space challenges. They apply their newly acquired knowledge from the space disciplines fundamentals and interactions to a current, relevant problem that the space sector is facing that requires an interdisciplinary approach to define a solution. The interdisciplinary teams design and present novel integrated solutions for an evolving space sector.
Registration process
Registration for 2024-2025 is open from 2 September (9:00 hrs) until 6 October (22:00 hrs), through the Honours Academy of Leiden University. The application form will be published on their student website.
Please note: it is not possible to follow (part of) this programme online.
Please note: students are not required to register through uSis for this course. Your registration will be done centrally.
Please note for Delft students: Interested TU Delft students should first have been selected as Honours Programme Bachelor (HPB) students by their respective faculty. Only HPB students are eligible to register for this programme.