Workshop

This workshop will take place from June 1st to 3rd 2026 at ESA/ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands). It will be held on-site only; remote participation will not be possible.

RAMS is a discipline under the aegis of Product Assurance but with strong links to System Engineering. Its dedicated methods and techniques aim at improving the Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety of systems at all levels of a project.

Participants who joined the online SME Forum preparatory meetings are invited to register now to attend the SME Forum 2025.

SMEs are invited to take part in the stakeholder consultation process in preparation of the SME Forum.

Join to exchange ideas, needs and experiences that can help ESA to develop a new version of its costing software, ECOS.

The Software Product Assurance Workshop 2023 will take place at the European Space Astronomy Centre (ESA/ESAC) near Madrid, Spain, on 25 - 28 September. For abstract submission and registration, go to: https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/software-pa-workshop-2023/

Building on lessons learned from the previous workshops held in Toulouse (2019) and online (2021), topics in the following areas will be addressed, for ground, launch and space segments:

The Software Product Assurance Workshop 2021 and its associated Training Day will take place online on 4 - 7 October 2021.