UCL Masterclasses: Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction (IRDR) – Topic: How Could Space Exploration Benefit Life on Earth?
Location: Online
Event Information: * Deadline: Sunday 21 January, 11:59pm*. IRDR aims to achieve leadership in risk and disaster reduction and emergency response both in the UK and internationally. This IRDR Masterclass will ask: How could space exploration benefit life on Earth? A new space age has begun. The global exploration roadmap has brought together national space agency to bring humankind to Mars by 2050. To get there, we must overcome enormous challenges and risks – isolation and confinement during spaceflight, muscle, and bone density wastage, and providing healthcare with no option of evacuation to a hospital. However, some argue that the money spent on space exploration is better.
This event is suitable for: Year 12.
How to book a place: *Deadline: Sunday 21 January, 11:59pm*
Eligibility:
All eligible applicants who meet at least one of the shortlisting criteria specified in points 2 to 6 on the Who we work with webpage will be offered a place on this programme.
Further details and how to apply can be found by clicking here.
RO Travel Scheme: Please contact Vathani Mariampillai at srs.realisingopportunities@ucl.ac.uk for information on travel bursaries.
Recording your attendance on the RO student hub: Please email the UCL RO Team at srs.realisingopportunities@ucl.ac.uk after the event to confirm your attendance. Please include your full name, the date, time and title of the event and confirmation of attendance and event organisers details.