Why join the project ?
- Skill development: leadership, professionalism, specialized workshops, hard skills depending on your position & team…
- Great spirit of collaboration in a diverse & international team!
- Networking: contact and work with space professionals and scientists, industries, media…
- A wonderful mission at the end!
How to become a member ?
To apply for the project, fill out the contact form down below and indicate which team and tasks (detailed below) interest you. After the reception of your candidacy, you will be contacted by the leaders of the teams you’ve applied to. They will interview you in order to discuss your motivation and role in the Asclepios project.
Members of the project are members of the Asclepios association which aims at promoting space sciences and is responsible for the Asclepios project. Its yearly membership fee is CHF 25 (swiss francs). If you are selected, we will provide you with more details on how to join the Asclepios association.
Asclepios team structure
Project's jobs detail
Requirements: 20 hours/week, speaks English & French, at EPFL
Decision-making, coordination & well being of the team, public representation of the project.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 15 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Handles everything related to the management team, supervises budgeting for the whole Asclepios team, handles relationships with supervising lab and institutions.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 6 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Plan events, team building, takes care of members recruitment, manages the tools used by the whole team.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 7 hours/week, speaks English & French, at EPFL
MAKE project representative for Asclepios. Prospection of new semester projects and supervisors, coordination of the students working on semester projects, link between the project and the EPFL laboratories & professors.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 10 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Search for sponsoring, relation with sponsors & partners, handles the finances of the project with Asclepios treasurer.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 6 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
In charge of the mission logistics, inventory, equipment, transportation.
Availability: Closed
Requirements: 8 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne. Preferably studies law.
Takes care of the concept of ethics and the concept of safety for the Asclepios mission, the analog astronauts’ training and different Asclepios events. Is an expert in legal practices.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 15 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Handles everything related to the astronauts crew, their recruitment & trainings, their health and physical activities. Manages the team.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 8 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Coordinates the recruitment process, organizes the astronauts training from theoretical courses to advanced workshops
Availability: Open
Requirements: 3 hours/week, studies nutrition and has interest in sports
Designs the astronauts’ nutrition plans and exercise plans based on mission requirements and on each astronauts’ needs.
Availability: Closed
Requirements: 3 hours/week, studies medicine in Switzerland and available during the mission
Ensures the health and safety of the astronaut crew by giving medical trainings (First Aid, Hazard, diagnostics), establishing a medical risk analysis of the mission, and being the Biomedical Engineer in the MCC during the mission.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 15h/week
Manages the team, supervises the collaboration with external laboratories, researchers, companies, ensures deadlines are met.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 8h/week, speaks French as a bonus
Organizes a call for project, communicates with the researchers and companies which takes part in the mission, integrates their project in the mission.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 15 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Coordinates tasks and resources within the Design team and information with other WPs. Ensures a coherent vision and quality of work. Keeps track of the team’s budget.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 5 to 10 hours/week, around Lausanne, ideally studies architecture
Participates in the choice of the mission location by visiting the potential locations, designs the interior of the base (functionality & aesthetics), ensures that the crew has all necessary infrastructure and equipment.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 5 to 10 hours/week, around Lausanne
Visits all possible MCC locations and provides expert opinion on their quality, designs the floorspace to optimise operator communication, media presentation and IT compatibility, secures nearby provisions of basic needs for operators. Designs the MCC behaviors, norms and training.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 5 hours/week, ideally knowledgeable in IT and data security
Works with the science team to find appropriate data security solutions, prepares and tests mission communications and smart electronics networks.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 7 h/week, ideally studies space technologies and is familiar with simulation softwares
Defines the mission trajectory, landing site, time and date of departure and arrival of the astronauts. Make sure that the location fulfills the scientific requirements of the mission. Simulate the mission on with space mission design tools.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 8 h/week, must have a background in mechanical engineering or textiles. Optional: experience working in other space projects
Works closely on the design, manufacture and decision making related on the Asclepios II Analog Spacesuits.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 10 to 15 hours/week, speaks English & French, around Lausanne
Manages the team, in charge of the outreach of the project, ensures the quality of the work.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 2 to 8 hours/week, speaks English & French, programming knowledge (preferably HTML), ability to handle WordPress and Elementor (either prior to joining the project or soon after)
Update the website continuously, write articles for some dedicated pages, fix server and software related problems.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 6 hours/week, visual communication and writing abilities
Create visual supports, publishing content about the project on a weekly basis, and handling the projects’ social media presence.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 4 to 8 hours/week, around Lausanne
Organize the project’s participation in events (stand, equipment, logistics) to expand the project’s outreach, and coordinate the teams for the event.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 3 to 8 hours/week, speaks English & French, preferably around Lausanne, must be proficient in at least two of the following crafts: graphical art, filming or photography, video editing, animation.
Produces videos (aftermovies, trailers, etc…), designs visual communication (posters, roll-ups, etc…), records and photographs project events, both internal and external.
Availability: Open
Requirements: 6 hours/week, around Lausanne
-Build relationships with new media contacts and maintain relationships with existing contacts.
-Manage media requests in a timely and professional manner
-Collaborate with marketing to develop the advertising and promotion plans.
-Track and analyze media coverage to inform future campaigns.
Availability: Open