ESA/JRC International Summerschool on GNSS
July 14th to 25th 2025 - Arachova, Greece
The application for registration is closed! The course is sold out!
Selected students will be approached for registration and payment in coming days and the rest placed on a waiting list.
PROGRAM
Arrival of participants
16:00 - 17.00
Registration at Domotel Anemolia Mountain Resort Hotel, Arachova, Greece
17:00 - 17:30
WELCOME ADDRESS
Opening by the Greece Host
TBD
Opening by the ESA/JRC Summerschool Organizers
Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, European Space Agency (ESA)
Georgios Giannopoulos, T
Deputy Director, Head of Unit Directorate E - Space, Connectivity and Economic Security, EC, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
José Ángel Ávila Rodríguez, Head of the Future Programmes Office, European Space Agency (ESA)
Stefan Wallner, Head of G1G Signal in Space Engineering Unit, European Space Agency (ESA)
17:30 - 17:50
Opening Lecture 1
“Space and Europe : A matter of innovation, cooperation and education“
Jean-Jacques Dordain, CNES and former Director General of the European Space Agency
17:50 - 18:10
Opening Lecture 2
“The future of PNT“
Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, European Space Agency
18:10 – 18:30
Opening Lecture 3
A Warm Welcome to the ESA/JRC GNSS Summerschool 2025
Georgios Giannopoulos, Deputy Director, Head of Unit Directorate E - Space, Connectivity and Economic Security, EC, Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy
18:30 – 18:50
Opening Lecture 4
“Greece and Space“
Prof. Konstantinos Synolakis, Member of the governing board of the Hellenic Space Centre
18:50 – 19:10
Opening Lecture 5
“ESA/JRC International Summer School - Past, Present, Future”
Prof. Guenter Hein, Founder of the Summerschool
19:15 – 20:00
Meet and Greet at Domotel Anemolia Mountain Resort Hotel
20:00 WELCOME-DINNER
Domotel Anemolia Mountain Resort Hotel
09:00 - 10.30
Lecture: Basics of Satellite Navigation 1
Jade Morton, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: Basics of Satellite Navigation 2
Adriá Rovira Garcia, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Lecture: GNSS Radio frequency link
Michel Bousquet, retired from Institut Supérieur de l’Aeronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Toulouse, France
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Lecture: GNSS Signals
Christopher Hegarty, The MITRE Corporation, Boston, MA, USA
17:45 - 19:15
Opening of the Project Competition
Jade Morton
Adriá Rovira Garcia
José Ángel Ávila Rodríguez
20:00 DINNER
09:00 - 10:30
Lecture: GNSS Receivers
Christopher Hegarty
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Workshop: Lab on GNSS Signal Processing 1
Daniele Borio, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission (EC), Ispra, Italy
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Lecture: Multi-Frequency Multi-System GNSS
Stefan Wallner
José Ángel Ávila-Rodríguez
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 – 17:30
Workshop: Lab on GNSS Signal Processing 2
Daniele Borio
17:45 - 19:15
Lecture: Satellite Communications Systems / Positioning with Communication Systems
Michel Bousquet
20:00 DINNER -
Women for PNT DINNER (In parallel)
Jade Morton,
Sophie Damy, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission (EC), Ispra, Italy
Made possible by ION - The Institute of Navigation
09:00 - 10.30
Workshop: Lab on Measurement Generation
Daniele Borio
10:30 - 10:45 COFFEE BREAK
10:45 - 11:00
Gold Sponsor Presentation by OHB
11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: Differential and Precise Point Positioning (PPP) - Code and Carrier Phase Positioning
Jihye Park, Oregon State University, USA
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Workshop: Lab on Precise Point Positioning (PPP)
Adrià Rovira Garcia with support from Deimos Ibáñez Segura
15:30- 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Lecture: Ionosphere
Jade Morton
17:45- 19:15
Project work
Jade Morton
Adriá Rovira Garcia
19:15 - 19:45
Platinum Sponsor Presentation by INDRA
20:00 DINNER
After dinner by special arrangement (optional):
Hands-on: Making Measurements with a GNSS Receiver
Daniele Borio, Sophie Damy and Franceso Menzione
09:00 - 10.30
Lecture: GNSS Remote Sensing
Jihye Park
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Using Android Raw Measurements
Frank van Diggelen, Distinguished Engineer, Google, USA
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Lecture: GNSS Space Service Volume and Deep Space Navigation
Francesco Menzione, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission (EC), Ispra, Italy
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
An Introduction to Team Work
Stuart Schofield, Client Director at Mannaz, London, UK
17:45 - 19:15
Team Building - The Conditions for Team Effectiveness
Stuart Schofield
20:00 DINNER
After dinner by special arrangement:
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Hands-on: Making Measurements with a GNSS Receiver
Daniele Borio and Sophie Damy and Francesco Menzione
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Meet a GNSS professional: EGNOS – an European success story
Didier Flament, former EGNOS Project Manager, European Space Agency (ESA)
09:00 - 23:30
SOCIAL EXCURSION
09:00 - 12:00
guided tour of the Delphi archaeological site and museum
12:30 - 14:30 (approx.)
Lunch in Delphi
Afternoon
Free time in Galaxidi
(picturesque seaside town, opportunity to take a bath in the mediterranean)
Evening
Dinner in Galaxidi
Bus drive to hotel
picture of Victor Malyushev on Unsplash
picture courtesy of visit greece
09:00 - 10:30
Lecture: GNSS Effects in Civil Aviation
Todd Walter, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, USA
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: Satellite-based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) and Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM, ARAIM)
Stefan Wallner
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Lecture: Cyber Security for Civil Navigation
Todd Walter
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Lecture: Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication
Sophie Damy
17:30- 19:00
Team Building - Psychological Safety and Trust
Stuart Schofield
20:00 DINNER
After dinner by special arrangement (optional):
-
Hands-on: Making Measurements with a GNSS Receiver
Daniele Borio and Sophie Damy and Francesco Menzione
-
Meet a GNSS professional: EGNOS – a European success story
Didier Flament, former EGNOS Project Manager, European Space Agency (ESA)
09:00 - 10.30
Lecture: Evolution of GNSS, in particular of the Galileo System
José-Angel Ávila-Rodriguez
Matteo Paonni, Joint Research Centre (JRC), European Commission (EC), Ispra, Italy
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: Jamming Mitigation
Cillian O’Driscoll, CODC, Cork, Ireland
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Team Building - Minimizing Group Biases
Stuart Schofield
15:30 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Team Building – Presentation Skills
Stuart Schofield
17:45 - 19:30
Project Work Coaching
Jade Morton
Adriá Rovira Garcia
20:00 DINNER
09:00 - 10.30
Lecture: Lunar Navigation - Moonlight
Javier Ventura, European Space Agency, Toulouse, France
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Lecture: LEO PNT
Roberto Prieto, European Space Agency
12:30 - 13:45 LUNCH
13:45 - 14:00
Sponsor Presentation by our Silver Sponsor
GMV
14:00 – 23:00
SOCIAL EXCURSION and DINNER
15:00 - 17:00
guided tour to the Vagonetto Mining Park near Amfissa,
Evening
Dinner in Amfissa
Bus drive to hotel
picture from Jim Niakaris on Unsplash
picture courtesy of vagonetto mines
08:30 - 10:30
System Engineering - The key to successful projects
David Ibanez Izquierdo, OpSTAR Study Manager, European Space Agency (ESA), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 - 12:30
Project Work Coaching
Jade Morton
Adriá Rovira Garcia
GNSS Summerschool Faculty
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:30
Meet a GNSS professional: the challenges of project management
Paul Verhoef, former ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation, European Space Agency (ESA)
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:30
Project Work Coaching
Jade Morton,
Adriá Rovira Garcia
GNSS Summerschool Faculty
17:45 - 18:15
Project Work Coaching
Jade Morton,
Adriá Rovira Garcia
GNSS Summerschool Faculty
20:00 DINNER
09:00 - 12:30
Project Work Coaching
Jade Morton,
Adriá Rovira Garcia
GNSS Summerschool Faculty
12:30 - 13:30 LUNCH
13:30 - 15:30
Student Presentations on Project Work 1
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK
16:00 - 17:45
Student Presentations on Project Work 2
18:30 - 19:30
Awards of Student Competition - Closing of the Summerschool 2024
Chairman:
Javier Benedicto, ESA Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation
Members og the Jury:
Javier Benedicto, Paul Verhoef, Dr. Todd Walter, Prof. Michel Bousquet, Dr. Jade Morton, Dr. Jihye Park, Matteo Paonni, Dr. Adriá Rovira Garcia, Dr. Sophie Damy, Stefan Wallner, Dr. Jose Angel Avila Rodriguez
19:00 - 23:00
FAREWELL DINNER at Domotel Anemolia Mountain Resort Hotel
Breakfast & Departure