10 Nov 2018

United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) DropTES Fellowship Programme 2019

Application Deadline: 31st January 2019

Eligible Countries: UN Member Nations

To Be Taken At (Country): Bremen, Germany

About the Award: The Drop Tower Experiment Series is a fellowship programme of the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) in which students can learn and study microgravity science by performing experiments in a drop tower. The Bremen Drop Tower in Germany is a ground-based laboratory with a drop tube of a height of 146 meters, which can enable short microgravity experiments to be performed in various scientific fields, such as fluid physics, combustion, thermodynamics, material science and biotechnology.

Type: Fellowship

Eligibility: 
  • The DropTES Fellowship Programme is open to research teams from entities that are Member States of the United Nations. Teams should consist of up to four Bachelor, Master and/or PhD students who must be endorsed by an academic supervisor.
  • It is further required that the proposed experiment be an integral part of the students’ syllabuses, that is, part of a Bachelor thesis, a Master thesis, a PhD thesis, or another form of research project associated with the applicants’ studies at the respective university.
Number of Awards: Not specified

Value of Award: The selected research team will be offered financial support exclusively for travel purposes. This may include the provision of most economical economy class round-trip air tickets between the participants’ international airport of departure and Bremen. En-route expenses or any 
changes made to the air tickets must be the responsibility of the participants.

How to Apply: The fully completed the above application form, properly endorsed by the applicant’s institution, should be emailed to hsti-droptes@un.org both in PDF format (.pdf) containing the signature page, and in MS WORD (.doc), no later than 31 January 2019.Please note that our email accounts only accept emails with a size limit of up to 10 MB.

Visit the Program Webpage for Details

Award Providers: UNOOSA

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