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08-12-2022
ESO Belgian Day

This year, The European Southern Observatory (ESO) celebrates its 60th anniversary. On this occasion, an ESO Belgian Day is organized at the Planetarium of the Royal Observatory of Belgium on Thursday 8 December.
The event will bring together astronomers, ESO representatives, master and engineer students, industries and general public in a day and evening long series of talks, networking opportunities, streaming and live presentations. More precisely, the event will go like this (tentative program):

Belgian astronomers and students meet ESO (B-ESO Astronomy Day)
Belgian astronomers and PhD/master students and ESO representative (invited speaker) present astronomy research done with ESO instruments, from 9h to 16h30 with opportunities to meet student engineers and industries during the breaks (coffee, lunch)

Belgian engineer students meet ESO
Belgian student engineers (with professors) meet ESO representatives who present career opportunities at ESO, from 9h to 12h with opportunities to meet astronomers during the coffee break

ESO meet Belgian industries
Belgian industries (together with the Belgian Science Policy) present themselves to ESO representatives, from 12h to 16h30, with opportunities to meet astronomers during lunch time and coffee break

Belgian people meet ESO (B-ESO Outreach Event)
General public will discover ESO benefits to society and Belgian astronomy highlights obtained thanks to ESO instruments, from 19h to 21h (outreach presentations, live streaming, ESO full dome images)

Information:

The ESO Day in Belgium Local Organizing Committee

Sophie Pireaux (Belspo, ESO Council delegate)
Emmanuel Jehin (ULiège, ESO Council delegate)
Sven De Rijcke (UGent, BNEC)
François Delplancke-Ströbele (ESO)
Carlos De Breuck (ESO)
Rodrigo Alvarez (ROB Planetarium, ESO Outreach Network

Belgian ESO Industry Day

18-06-2015
Belgian ESO Industry Day 2015 - BELSPO

BELSPO (Belgian Science Policy Office), together with ESO (European Southern Observatory), proposes an ESO industry day on the 18th June 2015, in Brussels, Belgium. During that day, ESO is introduced, an overview of the industrial sectors (technology, equipment, services) useful to ESO, and of ESO industrial procedures are provided. ESO's future projects and future industrial opportunities are presented, with a special focus on the E-ELT project. Business-to-Business meetings in the afternoon allow fostering synergic interactions between Belgian industries and ESO.

Agenda

Final participant list

Speeches and .pdf presentations:

 Additional documents:

Industry entry point at ESO: https://www.eso.org/public/industry/cp.html

15-06-2011
Belgian ESO Industry Day 2011 - BELSPO

BELSPO (Belgian Science Policy Office), together with ESO (European Southern Observatory), proposed an ESO industry day on the 15th June 2011, in Brussels, Belgium. During that day, ESO was introduced, an overview of the industrial sectors (technology, equipment, services) useful to ESO, and of ESO industrial procedures were provided. ESO's future projects and future industrial opportunities were presented, with a special focus on the E-ELT project. Business-to-Business meetings allowed fostering synergic interactions between Belgian industries and ESO.

Agenda

Speeches

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CONTACTGEGEVENS

Sophie Pireaux
ESO Council member
ESO Industrial Liaison Officer - ILO
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