Think outside the planet

During this year’s ONS you will get the chance to see for yourself the exciting potential developing at the interface between space and energy. The Space & Energy concept consists of the following parts:

1. The Space and Energy Park

During this year's ONS there will be a 90 m2 Space & Energy park in Hall M. This will be the place for innovative companies to present themselves in a new and exiting context. The Think Outside The Planet exhibition will be designed to inform and inspire the 40 000 + visitors to see the parallels between Space and Energy challenges and technologies.

2. The Space and Energy conference

The conference will be held during the ONS week on Wednesday 25.08 and will have a special focus on technology transfer between Space & Energy.

Norwegian Space Centre is leading the program committee for this happening. Keywords for the conference are:

• Good examples on technology transfer between space and energy.
• How can the energy- and space sector learn from each other?
• Space applications for the energy industry.
• Common technology challenges

3. The Think Outside The Planet magazine

Think outside the planet magazine

The Think Outside The Planet magazine will be the medium for presenting our sponsoring partners in a Space & Energy context together with examples on tech transfer. In the magazine you will also find cases on how to do tech transfer together with other material for information and education. It will be edited by Eirik Newth and will be available under and after ONS 2010.

 

 

Background of the Space and Energy project

Statoil and the Norwegian Space Centre have the latest years collaborated on finding opportunities and synergies between the space and energy industry. In June 2009 they together with Arena IO arranged the first Space and Energy conference in Stavanger with 70 companies and invited speakers from ESA and JPL/NASA.

 

Vision and goals

The vision of this work is to generate new businesses, new workplaces and new technologies for the benefit of the industry and the society.

 Overall objectives for the S&E project:

  • Position Norway on the hi-tech Space map
  • Generate space industry in Norway
  • Generate technologies from space tech to oil&gas/energy industry
  • Generate technologies from o&g/energy tech to space industry
  • Stimulate students to study and apply for our industries

The Space and Energy conference in Stavanger is planned to be an annual happening to strengthen the network, inform industry and public, and inspire youth (or all those young at heart).
In 2010 we will arrange the Space and Energy meeting place in the world known ONS conference.

 

The project team

The Think Outside The Planet initiative consists
of the following members:

 ONS: Jon Are Rørtveit, Kjell Ursin Smith with project manager Ole Jørgen Engelsvoll

Oceaneering: Preben Strøm

IRIS: Brage W. Johansen, Trygve Gjerstad , Christian Quale

Norwegian Space Centre: Bjørn Ottar Elseth, Marianne Moen

 

 

 

source: think outside the planet