EUROAVIA
EUROAVIA is the European Association of Aerospace Students, founded in 1959 and present in 30 cities in 17 European countries, with a total of about 1500 members. It aims to:
- Stimulate contacts between university students and the aerospace industry
- Offer opportunities of acquaintance and exchange among students from different countries, thereby actively pursuing European integration
- Represent European aerospace students at an international level
Being a non-political, non-profit association, EUROAVIA is managed exclusively by students with its various activities being entirely financed by membership fees. Particular projects are financed by sponsors and participation fees. Each year various activities are organized throughout Europe:
- Local activities
- International events
These events are organized by the Affiliated Societies. Participants attending these events enjoy various: visits, workshops, lectures, parties and social events;
These events are coordinated by the International Board: fly-ins, Congress meetings, symposiums, the Design Contest / Design Workshop and also airshow presences (EUROAVIA participates in major aerospace
exhibitions in Europe, being present at ILA Berlin, Farnborough and Le Bourget, Paris).
PREVIOUS DEWO
The EUROAVIA Design Contest (DeCo) is an open competition to all students in Europe interested in aerospace. The winners of this contest are invited to participate in the Design Workshop (DeWo ), which lasts three weeks and is free of any charge to them. During the DeWo they will experience real-life work on a complex aerospace project in a truly European team.
These workshops have been organized since 1991. Included are:
- DeWo 2005.Was hosted by Agusta Westlanda with the topic : preliminary design of a heavy lift helicopter.
- DeWo 2004. It took place in August at Manchester University and had the support from BAE.
- DeWo 2001. Hosted by Carlo Gavazzi Space, the DeWo participants designed a satellite.
- DeWo 1999. Hosted by British Aerospace, the goal was the preliminary design of a military trainer aircraft system. This included market analysis, aircraft design, operational parameters (maintainability, operability) and flight training program evaluation.
- DeWo 1997. Goal of the DeWo 1997 was the design of a low cost engine for a 50 to 70 seater regional aircraft. Two possible configurations, a turboprop and a turbofan, were evaluated. The workshop was hosted by the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Group and the University of Derby.
- DeWo 1995. During the 1995 DeWo at ESA / ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands the participants developed a preliminary design of a satellite, the Lunar Investigating Orbiting Navigator (LION). LION's was to find a suitable landing site for LEDA (Lunar European Demonstration Approach) on the Moon, map the lunar surface with a 4 m resolution and be an emergency relay for LEDA’s rover in case of a communications blackout.
- DeWo 1994. With a MTOW of 666 t, the BEAST (Big EUROAVIA Subsonic Transport) was the result of the 1994 DeWo at Aerospatiale, Toulouse. The task was to design a wide-body, heavy cargo aircraft with 200 t payload and 5000 NM range flying at Mach 0.82.
- DeWo 1992. The second Design Workshop was hosted by ESA / ESTEC, where the DeCo winners developed the preliminary design of an ecological monitoring satellite for the European ecosystem.
- DeWo 1991. The series of Design Workshops started with its edition in 1991 hosted by Dornier. The participants conducted a preliminary phase A study on the ULYSSES Reference Mission (URM), a small scientific satellite intended to complement the Ulysses space probe.
