Glide Your Experiment! Challenge

Glide Your Experiment! Challenge

In the same spirit as ESA’s Fly your thesis!, the goal of LIDE’s Glide Your Experiment! call for experiments is to offer selected students teams the opportunity to conduct their own microgravity or hypergravity experiments on board a glider during parabolic flights.

SELGRA will support the travel and accommodation of up to two teams participating in this competition: up to one team of university students (1 to 4 team members) and up to one team of high school students (1 to 4 team members) accompanied by an adult supervisor. This SELGRA grant can cover reasonable travel and accommodation costs up to a maximum amount of 500€ per team member.

Applications are welcome until the 01/03/2021 at 23:59 CET. Successful applicants will get informed shortly after this deadline.

Now CLOSED!

Eligibility criteria:

1. The sponsored teams must be composed of 1 to 4 team members. They should either be high school students (in this case, they should be accompanied by a teacher or another adult supervisor) or be registered as students at a recognized university within Europe.

2. In the case of university teams, all the team members must be members of SELGRA (membership application).

3. The team must propose an original gravity-related experiment that can be conducted onboard LIDE's glider.

4. The proposed experiment shall not require a student team member to fly in the glider. Only the experiment will fly, with the possibility to operate it from the ground.

Applications not fulfilling the eligibility criteria and conditions of the sponsorship will be rejected.

How to apply:

1. Check the eligibility criteria and carefully read the conditions of the sponsorship to make sure that your understand and agree with these terms before applying. In particular, we will request a mandatory one-page written report and pictures about the activity.

2. Fill in the application form on LIDE's website.