About RLS-Aerospace

The RLS-Global Aerospace Campus (est. 2016) creates internationally relevant, future-oriented training opportunities for the next generation of aerospace professionals. Three pillars make up this work: a conference series, e-Learning, and joint research. The group creates a connection between academia and industry in all three pillars, ensuring that training elements represent the latest requirements in industry while remaining connected to global developments in research from across the regions.

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The Partners

The regional partners include (listed alphabetically by region):

Munich Aerospace e.V. (Bavaria)
Technische Universität München (Bavaria)
Bauhaus Luftfahrt (Bavaria)
DLR (Bavaria)
Ludwig Bölkow Campus GmbH (Bavaria)
Universität der Bundeswehr München (Bavaria)
Georgia Tech (Georgia)
AÉROÉTS (Québec)
CIADI (Québec)
Concordia University/Université Concordia (Québec)
Consortium de recherche et d’innovation en aéronautique au Québec CRIAQ (Québec)
Centre Technologique en Aérospatiale CTA (Québec)
École Nationale D'Aérotechnique (Québec)
ÉTS (Québec)
Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (Québec)
IICAP Polytechnique Montréal (Québec)


Click on any partner's logo to learn more.

McGill Institute for Aerospace Engineering MIAE (Québec)
Montréal Aerospace Institutes/Institutes Aérospatiaux de Montréal (Québec)
Polytechnique Montréal (Québec)
Université Laval Sigma +/Aérospatiale (Québec)
Université McGill (Québec)
FAPESP (São Paulo)
Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço (São Paulo)
University of Campinas UNICAMP (São Paulo)
USP (São Paulo)
Shandong Institute of Aerospace Electronic Technology Research (Shandong)
Shandong University (Shandong)
Biz-Up Upper Austria (Upper Austria)
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz (Upper Austria)
University of Applied Sciences of Upper Austria (Upper Austria)
Stellenbosch University (Western Cape)

Interested in joining the Global Aerospace Campus? Get in touch here. 

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News and Updates

New Global Aerospace Campus online course: Space Exploration
27 June, 2024

On 27 June, Munich Aerospace launched the fourth online course in the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus, this time on “Space Exploration”. This new course focuses on the multifacted asepcts of spaceflight, delving into the current states of exploration of Mars, the Moon, and long-term astronaut missions in low-Earth orbit, and beyond! The course features experts from many fields, including former astronaut Thomas Reiter and Prof. Alexander Choukér, who studies immunology in space at LMU Klinikum in Munich. 

Modules include:

• European Exploration Strategy
• Medical Aspects of Long-term Spaceflight

• Earth-Moon Transportation Architectures
• ISRU– Enabling sustainable space exploration
  
• Earth's Moon- the "planet next door"
  
• Current status of Mars Missions and Research
• Commercialisation: ESA approach for stimulating the growth of an in-space economy

Credit: Munich Aerospace, 2024

Registration is open here.
Learn more about the four e-Learning courses here.

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RLS-Sciences Digital Week 2024
15-19 April, 2024, online

The RLS-Sciences April Digital Week 2024 took place online from April 15th to 19th, 2024. For two hours each day, the RLS-Sciences Network convened virtually to explore the theme "Science Adoption in Regional Innovation Ecosystems." This event served as a preparatory step for the upcoming third RLS-Sciences Conference in Québec, scheduled for September 2024.

Participants from the seven RLS partner regions attended, engaging with 40 speakers who presented on a range of topics. These included regional initiatives to support sector-specific innovation in areas like digital health and aerospace, student-focused training opportunities with major companies and with new technologies using 3D printing and augmented reality, as well as networks to engaged stakeholders of all kinds from policymakers to citizens to industry. Transversal themes like artificial intelligence and sustainability featured throughout all five days.

Image Credit: WKS Bayern-Québec/Alberta/International, 2024

The Digital Week sessions are open to researchers from all RLS-Sciences thematic groups, fostering cross-topic exchanges that extend to RLS-Sciences Conferences and the new RLS-Sciences Explore Sessions.

This year's Digital Week marks the fourth iteration of this virtual format, initially launched to maintain the continuity of RLS-Sciences activities during the COVID-19 pandemic. It has since become a staple of the RLS-Sciences annual calendar.

View the programme here.

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Munich New Space Conference 2023
15-17 May, 2023, Taufkirchen and Munich, Bavaria

From 15-17 May, Munich Aerospace is hosting the Munich New Space Summit 2023. The conference will explore the topic of "new space" together with representatives of space agencies (ESA, NASA), as well as industry, research, and government. Planned discussions will cover a comprehensive range, including new space strategies at the national and international levels, commercial innovation from the startup to the SME to the big industry level, regulatory and legal aspects, and state-of-the-art research projects.

Image Credit: Munich Aerospace, 2023

 The conference will take place in person at the Ludwig Bölkow Campus, just south of Munich. 

Learn more at the conference website, or view the conference flyer.

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RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2022
18-21 September, 2022 in Herrsching, Bavaria

The RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2022 took place in Herrsching, Bavaria from 18th- 21st September 2022, hosted by Bavaria. Altogether, 76 participants from five RLS partner regions joined to exchange within and between the RLS-Sciences themes (Renewable Energy, Aerospace, Small Satellites, Digitalization, and Digital Health). During the pandemic, the network created a transition scenario and met all together virtually in June 2021 and April 2022 for the RLS-Sciences Digital Weeks. This new format bridged the time between the in-person conferences. The RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2022 also marked the official launch of the “RLS-Digital Health Initiative” as the fifth RLS-Sciences group, after a preparatory phase and first exchanges in 2020 and 2021.

The RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2022 followed in the model of the inaugural RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2019, hosted by FAPESP and INPE in São Jose dos Campos, São Paulo. The conferences create an opportunity for the entire RLS-Sciences network to meet in person, deepening work in person and exchanging with other groups in joint interdisciplinary sessions.

The next RLS-Sciences Overall Conference 2024 will be hosted by Québec.
 
Review the 2022 program here.

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First international online course launched by the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus
11 July, 2022, online and in Munich, Bavaria

The RLS-Global Aerospace Campus has released its first international online course with modules from four RLS partner regions. The course is titled "Urban Air Mobility", which has long been a key topic in the RLS-Global Campus Aerospace. Munich Aerospace, lead partner for the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus, worked with the TUM Institute for Lifelong Learning to develop the MOOC, which is free of charge. In ten interactive modules, the course covers technical, societal and legal challenges of Urban Air Mobility with lectures by experts from Technical University of Munich, Georgia Institute of Technology, Concordia University, Universidade de São Paulo, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Airbus Urban Mobility GmbH, Bundeswehr University Munich, Bauhaus Luftfahrt, and German Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure.

Learn more about the course or register here.
Watch a trailer for the course below or on YouTube.

Previous Events and Updates

RLS-Global Aerospace Campus at MTL Connect 2021
14 October, 2021 online and in Montréal, Québec

RLS-Sciences was pleased to return to MTL Connect once again in 2021. This year, the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus hosted a keynote, panel discussion, and networking activity on 14 October on the topic "Towards Advanced Air Mobility: Ecological, Social and Economic Challenges of the Aerial Mobility of the Future".

The keynote  presented by Prof. Mirko Hornung (Technical University of Munich/Bauhaus Luftfahrt), provided an overview about the vast number of small to large flying demonstrators developed and tested in the last years, as well as potential market demand and possible use cases for passengers, logistics as well as other flying services.

The panel discussion featured:
Prof. Constantinos Antoniou (Technical University of Munich, Bavaria)
Prof. Laurie Garrow (Georgia  Institute of Technology, Georgia)
Prof. Luis Rodrigues (Concordia University, Québec)
Prof. Humberto Bettini (University of São Paulo, São Paulo)
Moderation: Dr. Sebastian Goers (Energieinstitut at the Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Upper Austria)

MTL Connect is "an international event that  democratizes the issues and challenges of digital transformation at the technological, economic, social, cultural, and environmental levels". RLS-Sciences was represented at MTL Connect in 2020 by the RLS-Expert Dialogue on Digitalization.

View the event here (keynote) and here (panel discussion).
Learn more about the Global Aerospace Campus here.
Learn more about MTL Connect 2021 here.
Read an article about the Global Aerospace Campus at MTL Connect in L'actualité here. (French language publication)

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RLS-Global Aerospace Campus at the RLS-Sciences Online Conference 2021
14 June, 2021, online in Munich, Bavaria

The RLS-Global Aerospace Campus kicked off the RLS-Sciences Online Conference 2021 week on Monday, 14 June. At the invitation of Munich Aerospace, the group brought together their work and the conference theme of “Data as a Resource for the Regions” by addressing “Advanced (Urban) Air Mobility”. Presentations were given by experts from Bavaria (Bauhaus Luftfahrt, Technical University of Munich), Georgia (Georgia Institute of Technology), Québec (Concordia University), and São Paulo (University of São Paulo) on the differing facets of advanced urban air mobility, including sustainability, societal acceptance, regulation, and air traffic control considerations. Providing a review of the latest developments in advanced urban air mobility in their respective regions, the experts elaborated on emerging trends and how challenges are being addressed in the different cultural, political, and geographic contexts. This rich exchange offered an opportunity for first comparisons, and the group will continue to exchange on this topic. The next online course, “Urban Air Mobility” is under development with inputs from across the RLS regions.

Read a summary of the RLS-Sciences Online Conference 2021 here.

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Space Safety e-Learning course now open for registrations
8 December, 2020, online and in Munich, Bavaria

As part of the online offerings of the Global Aerospace Campus, Munich Aerospace has developed an e-Learning course on "Space Safety". The course offers a variety of several topics such as space safety in general, space debris, space weather, planetary defense and asteroid impacts as well as space medicine. Experts from the European Space Agency, the Technical University of Munich, the Bundeswehr University Munich and the German Aerospace Center provide information on the latest research results and ideas how to manage the increasing satellite traffic in space in the future. Registration for the course is available here, and is free. A teaser trailer for the course can be viewed below, and on the Global Aerospace YouTube channel here.

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Global Aerospace Campus releases teaser trailer for upcoming online course "Urban Air Mobility"
14 October, 2020, Munich, Bavaria

The Global Aerospace Campus is working to develop its second online course for release in 2021. The course, "Urban Air Mobility" will feature lectures from aerospace experts across the RLS partner regions. The trailer was first shown  as part of the presentation of Prof. Klaus Drechsler for the Global Aerospace Campus at the RLS Virtual Roundtable on COVID-19 on 15 September, 2020. 

View the trailer here or below. 
Learn more about the Global Aerospace Campus here. ​

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Global Aerospace Campus releases “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” as MOOC
14 September, 2020, Munich, Bavaria

The RLS-Sciences Global Aerospace Campus project aims to strengthen the specialized training of aerospace professionals in the RLS partner regions. This includes in-person components, such as the Global Aerospace Summits, and virtual components, such as the eLearning course on digitalisation and aeronautics. Now, in an expansion of the virtual training, the first Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) from the Global Aerospace Campus has been released.

The course, “Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space” went live on Monday, 14 September 2020.

View the course here.

Learn more about the new MOOC here (German) or here (English).
Learn more about the Global Aerospace Campus here.

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Forum Munich Aerospace lecture with Prof. Klaus Schilling on mini-satellites
Thursday, 12 December, 2019, Bavaria

Munich Aerospace, in partnership with the Technical University of Munich, the German Society for Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the Royal Aeronautical Society, has launched a lecture series, Forum Munich Aerospace, to cover the latest developments in aerospace combined with special historical perspectives of industry.

In a cross-thematic RLS-Sciences activity and as a GAC.impulse, Prof. Klaus Schilling of the University of Würzburg and lead partner of RLS-Small Satellites held a lecture in the series. His talk, “The Future of Space: Networked, Cooperating Mini-Satellites?”, discussed the paradigm shift from traditional, multifunctional, large space probes to distributed, networked, cooperating micro-satellites. Watch his lecture (in German) below, or on the Global Aerospace Campus YouTube channel here. Learn more about the Forum Munich Aerospace here.

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Global Aerospace Campus on YouTube

As part of the online learning opportunities developed by the Global Aerospace Campus, the project has a dedicated YouTube playlist on lead partner Munich Aerospace's YouTube channel. The Global Aerospace Campus playlist includes a welcome video from Bavaria’s Minister for Digital Affairs, Judith Gerlach for the inaugural Global Aerospace Campus eLearning course , as well as short videos on a variety of key questions relating to the theme of the first eLearning course, ‘’Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space’’.

The channel also includes full lectures from the Forum Munich Aerospace, including the inaugural lecture by Prof. Xioxiang Zhu, German Aerospace Center and the Technical University of Munich, on AI and Earth observation. Forum Munich Aerospace is a joint lecture series by the Technical University of Munich, Munich Aerospace, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt and the Royal Aeronautical Society.
 
View the Global Aerospace Campus playlist here.
Register for the eLearning course, ''Digitalisation in Aeronautics and Space'' here.

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Global Aerospace Campus launches first eLearning course:
''Digitisation in Aeronautics and Space''
15 October, 2019, Ottobrunn, Bavaria

The first eLearning course from the Global Aerospace Campus launches on 15 October, 2019. Developed by lead partner Munich Aerospace, the eLearning course, ''Digitisation in Aeronautics and Space'' includes contributions from leading researchers, industry, and policymakers. All interested participants from all seven RLS partner regions were invited to register. The first eLearning course from the Global Aerospace Campus is a key step in achieving the goals of the Global Aerospace Group: building a structured further training programme comprising global in-person attendance phases and work experience placements. Watch a teaser video for the eLearning course below.

To register, send an email to e-learning (at) munich-aerospace.de.
To learn more about the Global Aerospace Campus and the new eLearning offering, visit the website here.

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Global Aerospace Campus group at the RLS-Sciences Conference 2019
27-31 May, 2019, São José dos Campos, São Paulo

At the invitation of the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), aerospace researchers from the Global Aerospace Campus group from across the RLS regions came together in São José dos Campos as part of the 2019 RLS-Sciences Conference from 27 to 31 May. This marked the third Global Aerospace Campus Summer Summit. They held exchanges on a wide variety of topics, with rich brainstorming discussions afterwards. In addition, a ‘’mini-course’’ was given on the topic of ‘’Smart Materials and Structures’’. Participants had the chance to see a teaser video of the inaugural e-learning course, under development at Munich Aerospace, which will open in the autumn of 2019. The group also discussed future summer school sites and topics, and themes for the second and third e-Learning courses, which will include inputs from throughout the regions and industry. The group also shared ideas for potential joint research groups. 

Learn more about the project by visiting the Global Aerospace Campus site here.
Learn more about the eLearning course here.

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Munich Aerospace Summer School 2019
8-9 July 2019, Kochel am See, Bavaria

Munich Aerospace will host its 2019 summer school on the topic of “Urban Air Mobility” . The summer school will be held from 8-9 July 2019 at Georg-von-Vollmar-Akademie in Kochel am See. Among the speakers are Professor Brian German (Georgia Institute of Technology), Professor Mirko Hornung (Bauhaus Luftfahrt/Technical University of Munich), Professor Rolf Moeckel (Technical University of Munich) and Dr. Reinhard Brandl, Member of the German Bundestag and supporter of the Urban Air Mobility Initiative by the city of Ingolstadt. The first day of the conference will consist of lectures from experts, and the second day will focus on the Research Groups and the Scientific Advisory Board of Munich Aerospace.

Learn more about Munich Aerospace here.
Learn more about the summer school here.

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Global Aerospace Campus presentation at the 9th RLS Conference

On Friday, 18 May, 2018 , Prof. Dr. Hany Moustapha presented on the topic of aerospace training to the Regional Leaders Summit Conference at the Château Frontenac in Québec. This was part of the RLS-Sciences presentation segment of the conference. The presentation covered the developments of the Global Aerospace Campus project since its launch in 2016, as well as updates on the activities from the week prior where RLS researchers and students met for the second Global Aerospace Campus Summer Summit.

Review the Global Aerospace Campus presentation here.

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Second Global Aerospace Campus Summer Summit 2018

Building on the success of its first two years of activities, the Global Aerospace Campus hosted its second Summer Summit near Montréal from 10 to 11 May. Organizers AÉROÉTS drew upon their broad network of aerospace professionals to bring together industry and academic participants with the RLS researchers and students. The theme of this summit was ‘’Aerospace Sustainable Technologies to Address Industry 4.0 Challenges’’. Seven RLS students from across the regions, plus many from the hosting region of Québec, were able to network with researchers in a variety of aerospace specialities, offering new insights and perspectives.

Photo Credit: Munich Aerospace

Experts from across the RLS regions offered insights into specialities such as hybrid electric propulsion, advanced and additive manufacturing, structural dynamics, unmanned demonstrators for technology evaluation, and others. A panel discussion addressed the question of which engineering skills will be most important for Industry 4.0.

Students, industry participants, and researchers also took advantage of Québec’s aerospace research and training ecosystem to undertake site visits to both the École nationale d’aérotechnique (ÉNA), which is a leader in technical training in aerospace technology, and the Centre technologique en aérospatiale (CTA), a college technology transfer centre.

Review the programme here.

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Global Aerospace Campus launches own website

Global Aerospace Campus has launched their own website! The new webpage includes an overview of the virtual campus, details about the network's activities, and planned developments in the Global Aerospace Campus project. Additional information about partners and courses can also be found on the website. Additionally, lead partners Munich Aerospace have produced an informational video about the project. Congratulations to the project for this development!

Visit the website here.
View the video here.

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Munich Aerospace Summer Summit 2017

The Munich Aerospace Summer Summit 2017 was held in Taufkirchen, Bavaria, from 26 June to 28 June. This year's theme was "Green Aerospace". For the second time, PhD candidates from across the 7 RLS regions participated. Read more about the Summer Summit here, or review the programme here.

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RLS-Global Aerospace Campus presentation at the 8th RLS Conference

On Friday, 15 July, 2016 , Prof. Dr. Klaus Drechsler, the Bavarian coordinator of the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus project, presented the first results of the project and the future plans for collaboration to the Regional Leaders Summit Conference at the Residenz in Munich. This was part of the RLS-Sciences presentation segment of the conference. Bavarian State Secretary for the Ministry of Economy and Media, Energy and Technology, Franz Josef Pschierer gave the welcoming address. Québec Minister for Economy, Science and Innovation and Minister Responsible for the Digital Strategy Dominique Anglade gave the closing remarks. Read more here (English) and here (Deutsch).

Review the RLS-Global Aerospace Campus presentation here.

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Campus Aerospace Tour and Brainstorming at Ludwig-Bölkow Campus

Following the success of the Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016 on "Autonomous Flight", the Campus Aerospace group met at the Ludwig-Bölkow Campus in Ottobrunn for a tour of the facilities on site. The group then had a networking lunch, followed by a productive brainstorming session on how to develop future learning programmes for the next generation of aerospace researchers across the RLS regions. Read more here (English) and here (Deutsch).

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Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016 a success

The Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016 was held in Herrsching, Bavaria, from 22 June to 24 June. This year's theme was "Autonomous Flight". For the first time, PhD candidates from across the RLS regions participated, for a total of nine RLS-Sciences participants. Read more about the Summer School here, or review the programme here.

RLS-Sciences Participants at the Munich Aerospace Summer School 2016. From left to right: Bernd Kolar (Upper Austria), Aldo André Diaz Salazar (São Paulo), Paola Gonzalez Ramos (São Paulo), Wang Shu (Shandong), Jean-Sébastien Dick(Québec), Mingshan Chi (Shandong), and Ugo Chouinard (Québec). Not pictured: Greg Busch (Georgia), Jason Corman (Georgia). (Photo Credit: Aldo André Diaz Salazar).

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CRIAQ announces 8th Research Forum

In collaboration with the Consortium for Aerospace Research and Innovation in Canada (CARIC), CRIAQ hosted its 8th Research Forum on 27th April, 2016, in Montréal.  The forum was designed to bring together the entire aerospace community to engage in an open innovation process. Leaders of the aerospace industry and researchers affiliated with universities, colleges and research centres from across Canada and around the world were invited to take part, with the goal of creating collaborative research and development projects. The Research Forum also invited industrial players to enhance the conversation with their own project ideas, and hosted "forward-looking" workshops to capture the impact of R&D on technological changes in the industry, plus discuss aerospace areas of importance with members of the community.

Learn more here.

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Munich Aerospace at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit

From 1 to 3 March, the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit was held in Munich at the historical Munich Residenz. The summit addressed satellite navigation now and in the future. With high-ranking worldwide speakers from industry, science, and governments, the convention provided participants with a broad overview and different perspectives on the latest developments in the field of GNSS. The Summit is part of the efforts of the Bavarian government and the cluster on aerospace and satellite navigation to stimulate applications and services in this high-tech field.

Learn more here.