Images from the launch of the European Space Education Resource Office (ESERO) in a €475,000 project supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) to promote the wider study of science using space as a theme in schools.
Discover Science & Engineering (DSE) will partner with the ESA to establish the ESERO in Ireland.
The new programme aims to provide educational material and activities which will make science more exciting to young people studying science at school. The newly established ESERO also reflects Ireland’s increasing involvement in the space industry, which is currently worth over €20 million to the economy and growing with 70 companies established in the country.
The Space Strategy Working Group believes a coherent national space strategy for Ireland could lead to the creation of 5,000 new high value jobs by 2025 with an estimated value of €1 billion to the exchequer. Ireland is now the fifth country across Europe which will have its own ESERO.
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Minister Conor Lenihan with Belvedere college students Ian Fahey from Clontarf and Owen Killian from Castleknock
Ian Fahey from Clontarf pictured with a scale model of the Herschel Telescope
Owen Killian pictured with a telescope at the launch
