Space Weather Introductory Course
Royal Observatory of Belgium - Directors Building
This course is intended as an entry course on Space Weather. It provides an elementary overview over the relevant aspects of space weather without invoking complicated background physics. The course is intended for meteorologists and space staff that will be providing Space Weather information to military and civilian end users.
The course takes place onsite on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday with an online test the week after.
Laptop or tablet
It is recommended that participants bring a laptop or tablet as it is helpful for the exercises and to check the presentations.
Please install JHelioviewer beforehand on your laptop.
SWIC test and certificate
The SWIC test to obtain the certificate can be taken during the week following the SWIC on Wednesday, 14u or Thursday 14u. The test is online, no need to come over again. We will call all participants together on the zoom-platform for the test.
The test takes max 90 min.
Only participants that take the test, receive a certificate for the course.
Fee
The fee is 750 EUR. We will contact you personally to get the info needed to make the invoice. Note that the STCE doesn't charge VAT.
Fee reductions/waivers are available for priority user groups.
If your institute will send us a purchase order for your participation to the SWIC, please make sure that this purchase order contains the information: 'Participation of "YOUR NAME" to the SWIC'.
This is an organisation of the Solar-Terrestrial Centre of Excellence
