ESA Graduate Trainee in Innovative AI4EO for Green and Sustainable Future

at  European Space Agency

ESA Graduate Trainee in Innovative AI4EO for Green and Sustainable Future
Job Requisition ID: 19334
Date Posted: 1 February 2025
Closing Date: 28 February 2025 23:59 CET/CEST
Publication: External Only
Type of Contract: ESA Graduate Trainee
Directorate: Earth Observation Programmes
Workplace:Frascati, IT
Grade Band: F1 - F1

EDUCATION

You should have just completed, or be in the final year of your master’ s degree in a relevant technical or scientific field.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

You should have good interpersonal and communication skills and should be able to work in a multicultural environment, both independently and as part of a team. Previous experience of working in international teams can be considered an asset. Your motivation, overall professional perspective and career goals will also be explored during the later stages of the selection process.

You should also have:

• Knowledge of EO technologies and applications.
• Knowledge of Artificial Intelligence.
• Understanding of Climate Adaptation and Mitigation and Green transition aspects.

This entails, for example tasks like:

• Assessing within the deep tech innovation sectors promising transformative technologies and methodologies;
• Preforming research and study activities;
• Performing prototipization and testing of transformative technologies;
• Connecting with EO ecosystem and internal ESA stakeholders to promote uptake of such innovations

In particular, your tasks will include:

• Collection and verification of a suite of EO data sets to showcase use cases with the focus on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation and Green transition applications;
• Assess needs derived from applicable policies and ESA strategic documentations;
• Assessment of currently available tools, methodologies and applications in the field exploiting EO data;
• Identify gaps and propose alternative approaches to be explored;
• Collection and verification of a suite of EO data sets to showcase use cases with the focus on Climate Adaptation and Mitigation and Green transition applications;
• Support the generation of narrative of the achieved results for ESA, policy makers and end users;
• Presentation of project advancement and preparation of a final report showing the main results of the activity