• Name
• Email
• Role in organization

• Name
• Country
• Reference person
  Reference person
• E-mail Reference person

• Yes
• No

• Ground equipment/technology manufacturing
• Space equipment/technology manufacturing
• Solution vendor
• System prime
• Satellite operator
• Service provider
• Consultancy
• Research institute
• Governmental

• European
• European member states
• Non European based

• Course title
• Course program
• Teaching language
• Course structure
  • Single module
  • Sub modules
• Duration
• Periodicity
  • Recurrent event
  • Single event
• History
  • New course
  • Course running for (year)
• Targeted audience
  • Ph.D. Students
  • Operators
  • Investors
  • Designers
  • Other
• History
  • New course
  • Course running for (year)
• Prerequisites for the audience
• Course material
  • Book
  • Papers
  • Slides
  • Technical report
  • Recorded lessons
  • Other
• Material language
• Material format
  • Electronic
  • Paper
  • Other
• Course format
  • Face to face
  • Interactive webinar
  • Webcast
• Laboratory experience
  • Yes
  • No
• Credits
  • Yes
  • No
• Final test required
  • Yes
  • No
• Fee
• URL

As expected, SatCom related Training courses are set up mainly by Research institutes (75%) and Consultancy organizations (25%) taking part of the ISI community, as reported in the following Figure. However, in some cases, representatives from SatCom industry are invited to give a lecture on specific topics and on new SatCom trends which increases the interest of participants. The new consultation will take into account also this aspect in order to gather more detailed information on the invited speakers on the basis of the target of the course.

The following Figure shows which the footprint of the ISI Members which organize SatCom Training courses. Most of them (87%) have a European footprint. This means that their activities are carried out at level of Europe in the geographical sense and not only in the European Union States.

Such result allows inferring that the courses will be taken in different European Countries giving the opportunities to participants to meet and discuss and to enter and be involved actively in the SatCom community.

In the following, some data collected regarding the SatCom training courses organized by ISI members are reported.

Most of the training courses are face-to-face courses, are recurrent and thought in English, and allow Ph.D. students to get credits useful for their Ph.D. programme, after successfully passing a final exam.

The prerequisites to participate the courses range from basic satellite communication skills to skills in digital transmission, networking, communication theory and propagation. Usually, the qualification required is the Master degree in telecom engineering, but in case of advance training courses on SatCom, the Ph.D. qualification could be also requested.

SatCom Training course periodicity

Most of the courses are recurrent, i.e. for example they are organized on a year basis. This is an interesting result because such courses or schools become the key appointments in the agenda of the SatCom community.

SatCom Training course language

Most of the training courses (87%) are in English in order to give people coming from different countries the opportunity to be able to follow the lessons and discuss with the teachers and the other participants on key topics related to SatCom.

SatCom Training course format

Most of the training courses (75%) are face-to-face in order to give people coming from different countries the opportunity to meet experts and other colleagues working in the same field with which to be able to discuss and exchange ideas on different topics related to SatCom.

SatCom Training course credits

Most of the courses (62%) give Ph.D. students the opportunity to get credits useful for their Ph.D. programme. This makes the participations to such courses very appealing for the students which can live an interesting experience for their professional carrier and, at the same time, get credits required to complete the programme.

SatCom Training course final exam

All courses issue a certificate of attendance but in the most cases, the successful passing of a final exam is required to get the qualification offered by the course. In particular, to get credits for the Ph.D. programme it is mandatory to pass the exam.