As agreed at the Pre-Conference Workshop "Space for Life" in MUSE (Trento, Italy) in June 2015 the next Space Group annual meeting will take place at the National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci in Milan, Italy on November 3-4, 2015. The aim of the annual meeting will be to discuss further steps in exploring possibilities to develop new kits, tools and resources around three themes:

• Monitoring the atmosphere and oceans from Space (led by Ana Noronha, Ciência Viva, Portugal)
• The International Space Station: Living and working in Space” (led by Aude Lesty, Cité de L’Espace, France and Tina Ibsen, Tycho Brahe Planetarium, Denmark)
• Is there life out there?” (led by José Antonio Gordillo, City of Arts and Sciences Valencia, Spain)

We invite you to join us for two days full of energizing discussions on collaborative projects, networking, and building partnerships, exchange of ideas and best practices. The draft programme of the Annual Meeting will be available in September 2015.

For any questions regarding the programme and content of the annual meeting, please contact Fiorella Coliolo at fcoliolo@exoworld.net, Coordinator of the Space Group for ESA. If you are interested in attending the meeting, please confirm your participation with Antonina Khodzhaeva at akhodzhaeva@ecsite.eu

Draft programme of the meeting is available here.