Highlights from LUNEX SpaceHub  EuroMoonMars 

Introduction:  We describe a number of initiatives contributing to WorkForce Development for Space and Planetary Research and Innovation. EuroMoonMars programme for Workforce Development in Data Analysis, Instrumentation, Field Work and Astronautics: EuroMoonMars is an ILEWG programme [1-226] in collaboration with space agencies, academia, universities and research institutions and industries. The programme includes research activities for data analysis, instruments tests and development, field tests in MoonMars analogue, pilot projects , training and hands-on workshops , and outreach activities. Extreme environments on Earth often provide similar terrain conditions to sites on the Moon and Mars. In order to maximize scientific return it becomes more important to rehearse mission operations in the field and through simulations. EuroMoonMars field campaigns have then been organised in specific locations of technical, scientific and exploration interest. Lunex EuroMoonMars, has been organizing in collaboration with ESA, NASA, European and US universities a programme of data analysis, instrumentation tests, field work and analog missions for students and researchers in different locations worldwide since 2009, including Hawaii HI-SEAs, Utah MDRS, Iceland, Etna/ Vulcano Italy, Atacama, AATC Poland, ESTEC Netherlands, Eifel Germany, etc… Analogue missions provide a practical ground in which students can test the notions learnt at the university in a realistic simulation context. Over the course of these missions, students have access to special Space instrumentation, laboratories, Facilities, Science Operations, Human Robotic partnerships. In 2023 , EuroMoonMars and EuroSpaceHub Academy co-sponsored a series of EMMPOL Moonbase isolation simulation campaigns in Poland. EuroSpaceHub programme for Space Innovation Workforce Development: The EuroSpaceHub project to facilitate accessibility to the Aerospace sector. EuroSpaceHub is a European-led project with collaborators worldwide, funded by the EIT HEI initiative, led by EIT Manufacturing and EIT Raw Materials. The EIT HEI initiative - Innovation Capacity Building for Higher Education - is a key objective of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology as part of its Strategic Innovation Agenda 2021-2027. The project was born from the collaborative efforts of six different international partners: Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, the International Space University (ISU), Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Collabwith and Lunex EuroMoonMars. The project was created to foster collaboration, innovation and entrepreneurship in the European Aerospace sector. EuroSpaceHub training programme for Space entrepreneurs: making Space accessible to young innovators with the analog missions. Within the context of the training programs offered by EuroSpaceHub is the EuroSpaceHub Academy. Space Engineering Workforce Development: we have also developed a semester course of Space System Design Engineering at  EPFL Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. This includes a series of 15 technical and methodology lectures on various spacecraft systems and sub-systems. The students incorporate these lessons in the individual design of a spacecraft including these various subsystems. They also go through the methodology of defining mission statements, mission goals and objectives, requirements, PDR Preliminary Design Review, Mid Term Review, Acceptance, Final report, Exectuive Summary and Oral Presentations. This practice also trains to develop workforce design, analysis, reporting and communication skills. Some will be reported at LPSC. Interdisciplinary Space Workforce Development: In the frame of ISU International Space University and EuroSpaceHub academy, we performed lectures,  hands-on workshops including the operations of instruments on EuroMoonMars ExoGeoLab lander, workshops on MoonOutpost design performed in the frame of MSS master , or SSP Space Studies Programme. Together with ISU , EuroSpaceHub staff co-supervised various IP Individual Projects of students, and Master Research Projects.