This year, YPE attendees will be registering for Workshops on the day of YPE, excluding the Ministerial Workshop (you can register for it here).
To give you a bit more information on the workshops, here are descriptions for each of them, and what they will be overlapping with. Stay tuned for more details!
Please note that all time slots for the sessions are subject to change, meaning that overlapping sessions may change.
☄️Environmental x Entrepreneurs ESA Sustainability Fund Projects' Ideation Workshop☄️
Join us for the joint Environmental × Entrepreneurs ESA Sustainability Fund Projects' Ideation Workshop — a fast‑paced, collaborative session where Young ESA Professionals explore how innovation and environmental responsibility can reinforce each other. Through guided brainstorming, team discussions, and creative ideation tools, participants will identify future sustainability challenges and develop solutions that could be implemented at ESA in the years ahead: concrete projects that reduce the Agency’s environmental footprint, enhance the sustainability of ESA’s physical assets, encourage the workforce's sustainable practices.
All ideas generated during the workshop will be proposed to the Sustainability Fund, ensuring that the most promising concepts can be taken forward, developed, and potentially implemented. Important: to take part in the workshop, participants must be willing to own their idea, carry it forward after the workshop, and lead its submission to the Fund.
If you are driven by climate action, innovation, or entrepreneurial thinking, this is the perfect space to connect, co‑create, and shape impactful ideas for a more sustainable ESA.
Here is the last Sustainability Fund report to know more about the topic: Report of Sustainability Fund
On Monday, running at the same time as Launching Europe to Space.
🌍ESA Council Ministerial Simulation🌍
This interactive workshop simulates an ESA Council at Ministerial level, placing participants in the role of Member States to negotiate programmes, debate priorities, and experience first‑hand how strategic decisions are shaped. Through guided moderation, structured proposals, and collaborative decision‑making, the session offers a practical insight into ESA governance, consensus‑building, and the dynamics behind real ministerial outcomes. This workshop will be running both on Monday and on Tuesday, with limited space, but with the option to observe on Tuesday.
On Monday, running at the same time as CM25 results towards 2040.
On Tuesday, running at the same time as the Space Slam.
👩💻DEI Workshop👩💻
This year’s YPE highlights the strategic, political, and collaborative dimensions of Europe’s space ambitions. Yet the success of these trajectories ultimately depends on people: diverse teams working across cultures, languages, and backgrounds.
Our DEI workshop aims at exploring diversity, equity and inclusion as core capabilities for navigating complex international environments, offering practical and reflective insights into how to navigate and ultimately benefit from the inherent diversity that surrounds us. We will be joined by Sylvain Seguy and Leonie Werner, the team in charge of DEI workforce activities at UNESCO through the UNGlobe association.
On Monday, running at the same time as ESA Behind the Scenes: External and Internal Relations.
