From 7 to 10 October 2025, Europe and Africa deepened their growing partnership in the space sector during the Space Systems Engineering Training Course, held at the ESA Education Training and Learning Facility at ESEC-Galaxia in Belgium.
The programme brought together young engineers from both continents to strengthen technical competence and foster collaboration in space systems development.
The training was conducted within the framework of the Africa-EU Space Partnership Programme (AESPP), a flagship initiative of the Global Gateway, funded by the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA).
Co-implemented by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Space Agency (AfSA), the AESPP aims to enhance cooperation across the entire space value chain, including satellite design and manufacturing, data utilisation, and institutional capacity development.
Building on this success, ESA and AfSA plan to expand their joint training programmes under the AESPP, focusing on emerging areas of New Space engineering, research collaboration, and technology transfer.
Each successive training cycle reinforces the same principle: the future of space exploration will be inclusive, interconnected, and collaborative.
With every new cohort of young professionals trained under this partnership, one message resonates clearly Europe and Africa are engineering a shared future among the stars.
Source: https://spaceinafrica.com/2025/11/04/esa-and-afsa-advance-space-cooperation-through-joint-space-systems-engineering-training/