ESA/JRC International Summerschool on GNSS 
The Summer School 2022 will take place: July 18 - 29, 2022, Krakow, Poland
The Summerschool is sold out!  Please contact us here to  apply for the waiting list!

16:00 - 17.00
Registration at Forest Hotel, Krakow, Poland

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17:00  - 17:45
Opening by the Polish Host

“How 10 years of membership Poland at ESA transformed the sector and young minds” 
Piotr Zabadała , Deputy Director of Innovation and Industrial Policy, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology

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Welcome Address

Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, European Space Agency (ESA)

Georgios Giannopoulos, Head of the Technology Innovation in Security Unit, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (EC)

José Ángel Ávila Rodríguez, Head of G2G System Security Services, European Space Agency (ESA) 

Stefan Wallner, Head of G1G Signal in Space Engineering Unit, European Space Agency (ESA)

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 17:45 - 18:15
Opening Lecture 1

“Space and Europe : A matter of innovation, cooperation and education“

Jean-Jacques Dordain, CNES and former General Director of the European Space Agency

 

18:15 - 18:45

Opening Lecture 2

"From Poland to stars, from the orbit to the Earth"

Michal Wiercinski, Vice President of Polish Space Agency

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18:45 – 19:00

Opening Lecture 3

"How to survive as a startup with strong technology background"

Jaroslaw Chojnacki, Cracow Science and Technology Park

 

19:00 – 20:00
Icebreaker Reception - Meet and Greet

Outside Terrace of Przegorzały Castle

 

20:00 WELCOME-DINNER

Castle Przegorzały, Restaurant “U Ziyada”
(2min walk, 170 metres from the hotel)

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09:00 - 10.30
Lecture: Basics of Satellite Navigation 1

Dr. Christophe Macabiau, ENAC (Ecole Nationale de l'Aviation Civile), Toulouse, France

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: Basics of Satellite Navigation 2
Dr. Christophe Macabiau

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Lecture: GNSS Radio-frequency Link
Prof. Michel Bousquet, retired from Institut Supérieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Toulouse

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15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:30

Lecture: GNSS Signals
Dr. Christopher Hegarty, The MITRE Corporation, Boston, MA, USA

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17:45 - 19:15

Lecture: Leadership and Team Effectiveness (1) - Presentation of the Project Competition
Dr. Jeff Austin, Founder and President, Austin Associates, San Antonio, Texas, USA

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20:00 DINNER

09:00 - 10:30

Lecture: GNSS Receivers
Dr. Christopher Hegarty

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and Patents in GNSS

Aude de Clercq, Technology Transfer and Business Incubation Officer, European Space Agency (ESTEC)

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30
Lecture: Differential and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) - Code and Carrier Phase Positioning

Dr. Jihye Park, Oregon State University, USA

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15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 – 17:30

Lecture: Leadership and Team Effectiveness (2) - Opening of the Project Competition
Dr. Jeff Austin

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17:45 - 19:15

Workshop: Lab on GNSS Signal Processing 1
Dr. Daniele Borio and Dr. Sophie Damy, Joint Research Centre (JRC), EC, Ispra, Italy

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20:00 DINNER

 

09:00 - 10.30

Workshop: Lab on GNSS Signal Processing 2
Dr. Daniele Borio and Dr. Sophie Damy

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Galileo – a European success story 

Paul Verhoef, former ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, European Space Agency (ESA)

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Lecture: Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM, ARAIM)

Dipl.-Math. Stefan Wallner, European Space Agency

 

 

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:30

Lecture: GNSS Threats: Receiver Level Defenses
Dr. Daniele Borio 

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17:45 - 19.15

Project Work Coaching
Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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20:00​ DINNER
Barbecue & Bonfire Dinner, Garden of Mansion in Tomaszowice

09:00 - 10.30​

Lecture: GNSS Effects in Civil Aviation
Dr. Todd Walter, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Ca., USA

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10:30 - 10:45 Industry insights hosted by our sponsor FUGRO

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10:45 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

 

11:00 - 12:30

Lunar Navigation
Dr. Javier Ventura-Traveset, European Space Agency

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Workshop: Lab on Measurement Generation
Dr. Daniele Borio and Dr. Sophie Damy

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15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

 

 

16:00 - 17:00

Lecture: GNSS Space Service Volume and Deep Space Navigation
Dipl.-Math. Stefan Wallner
 

17:15 - 18:45

Project Work Coaching
Dr. Jeff Austin

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20:00​ DINNER

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After dinner by special arrangement:

Hands-on: Making Measurements with a GNSS Receiver

Dr. Daniele Borio and Dr. Sophie Damy

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09:00 - 10:30

Lecture: Multi-Frequency Multi-System GNSS 
Stefan Wallner and Dr. José Ángel Ávila-Rodríguez, European Space Agency

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

 

 

11:00 - 12:30

Seminar: Evolution of GNSS, in particular of the Galileo System 1
Dr. José Ángel Ávila-Rodríguez and Stefan Wallner

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Seminar: Evolution of GNSS, in particular of the Galileo System 2
Dr. José-Angel Ávila-Rodriguez

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15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

 

 

16:00 - 17:30

Lecture: GNSS remote sensing
Dr. Jihye Park

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17:45 - 19:15

Lecture: Satellite Communications Systems / Positioning with Communication Systems
Prof. Michel Bousquet

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​20:00​ DINNER

 

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09:00 - 10.30

Lecture: Cyber Security for Civil Navigation
Dr. Todd Walter 

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:30

Lecture: Ionosphere and Troposphere models for GNSS: theory and applications
Prof. Paweł Wielgosz, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn 

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

 

       

15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:15

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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17:30 - 18:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

 

18:40 - 19:40

Panel 1: Q&A with Leading Experts
GNSS Summerschool Faculty - Moderator Dr. Jeff Austin

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20:00​ DINNER

 

09:00 - 10.30

Authentication

Dr. Cillian O'Driscoll

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:00

Project Work Coaching
Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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12:00 - 13:30 LUNCH

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13:30 - 23:00

SOCIAL EXCURSION details TBD​

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09:00 - 10:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

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11:00 - 12:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

 

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12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 - 15:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

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16:00 - 17:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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17:45 - 18:30

Project Work Coaching

Dr. Jeff Austin and GNSS Summerschool Faculty

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18:45 - 19:45

Panel 2: Q&A with Leading Experts

GNSS Summerschool Faculty - Moderator Dr. Jeff Austin

 

 

20:00​ DINNER

 

 

09:00 - 11:45

Project Work Presentations Preparation

Dr. Jeff Austin

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11:45 - 13:00 LUNCH

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13:00 - 14:30

Student Presentations on Project Work 1

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14:30 - 15:00 COFFEE BREAK

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15:00 - 17:00

Student Presentations on Project Work 2

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18:00 - 19:30

Awards of Student Competition - Closing of the Summerschool 2022 at Wieliczka Saltmine

Award Committee:

Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, Chairman

Summerschool Faculty

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19:00 - 23:00​

Underground Tour of Wieliczka saltmine and FAREWELL DINNER at one of the underground chambers