Courses

6 Mar - 25 Apr 2025
Virtual
3 - 25 Jul 2025
Virtual
Effective Leadership of Space Institutions

This is a special leadership retreat designed for management cadre, board members and team leads of space institutions. The programme includes inspiring talks on leadership, lectures, simulations, networking and tours. Lectures focus on structuring a space organisation based on the national space policy/strategy, how an organisation pursues its mandates and national goals while keeping to its international obligations, role of boards, governance and oversight functions.

4 - 8 Aug 2025
Cape Town, South Africa
25 - 27 Aug 2025
Pretoria, South Africa
6 - 10 Oct 2025
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
McGill-ASLI Course on International Space Law and Governance

This course is jointly organised by ASLI and the McGill Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University, Canada. The course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive understanding of the legal frameworks and governance structures governing global space activities. The course explores the intersection of international space law, national legislation and space cooperation.

TBD
Virtual

Upcoming Events

9 Jan 2025
Virtual
3rd UK-Africa Space Forum
11 - 12 March 2025
London, UK
2nd ASLI Colloquium on the African Outer Space Programme
20-22 May 2025
Virtual
Addis Ababa Space Summit
13 - 14 October 2025
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Upcoming Engagements

5 - 8 Feb 2025
Rabat, Morocco
11 - 12 Mar 2025
London, UK
23 - 28 Mar 2025
London, UK
21 - 24 May 2025
Cairo, Egypt
16 - 17 July 2025
Manchester, UK
3rd National Space Conference
20 - 22 August 2025
Pretoria, South Africa

Highlights

World Space Week (WSW) 2024: High-Level Panel on Space and Climate Change
4 Oct 2024
Virtual

ASLI in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (SSGI) organised a high-level panel discussion to commemorate the designated World Space Week (WSW) 2024. The theme of the event was “Space and Climate Change.”

Briefing of the Diplomatic and Scientific Communities in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

30 Sept 2024
Virtual

ASLI in collaboration with the Nigerian Embassy in Addis Ababa, and the Ethiopian Space Science and Technology Institute (SSGI) organised a Space Briefing, with a focus on the four thematic priority areas of the African Outer Space Programme (Earth Observation, Satellite Communication, Navigation & Positioning, and Astronomy) as well as two cross-cutting areas (Education & Capacity Development, and African Space Economy).

Briefing of U.S. Space Delegation

27 Mar 2024
Virtual

ASLI had an interactive discussion with a U.S. delegation consisting of representatives from NASA and U.S. Departments of State, Commerce and Defence. The discussion focused on civil and commercial space cooperation between Africa and the U.S.

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