SPACE GENERATION ADVISORY COUNCIL (SGAC)

Read this very carefully, and at the end of this explanations you will see the contacts where you can use if you want to find more about Space Generation, and on our Webpage there are some Volunteering opportunities that you can apply for them if you are willing to work with SG.


The creation of SGAC took place in July 1999, when a group of space-passionate young people calling themselves “the Space Generation” met in Vienna during the Third United Nations Conference on the Exploration and peaceful Uses of Outer space (called UNISPACE III). Space Generation submitted ten recommendations to the conference; five were incorporated into the Vienna Declaration on Space and Human Development. UNISPACE III conference participants incorporated wording into their resultant Declaration to officially create a youth space consultative group, and Space Generation Advisory Council was born.

The term "Space Generation" is a reference to the notion from Peter Diamandis, Bob Richards and Todd Hawley (the founders of ISU), that all people born after 12th April 1961 (Flight of Yuri Gagarin, first human in space) have something in common which makes them different from all generations before them: space had become reality.

That is how SGAC was born; some one might ask him/herself that, well! If that is how SGAC has came into being, then what is it? that, we call SGAC?

It is a global space youth network, open to students and young professionals from anywhere in the World who have a passion for space exploration and a desire to be informed, be involved, and be leaders for their nations and the world. It represents students and young professionals (mostly 18-35 years old) from all backgrounds, all countries, and all organizations to the UN, national governments, and space agencies. Nearly 100 countries are represented by National Points of Contact, which are organized into six regions of the world.

The aim was to enhance education and training opportunities and ensuring public awareness of the importance of space activities, and also to create, within the framework of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Outer Space, a consultative mechanism to facilitate the continued participation of the young people from all over the world, especially young people from developing countries and young women, in cooperative space related activities.


Together with all that but enhancing education on space activities was already an important issue to the United Nations, but through the Space Generation, self-initiated involvement in policy and the passion and dedication they demonstrated, the UN discovered something else.. “That, youth involvement in the policy is not only desirable, but powerful, beneficial, and essential”l.


SGAC VISIONS

1. ‘’We, the space generation, representing the worldwide visions of youth, commit ourselves to ensure the future of humankind’’.

2. ‘’In leaving the earth’s cradle in the quest for understanding our place in the universe, we are entrusted by the next generations with the sustainable development of the planet for our peaceful future’’.

3. ‘’We, the space generation, regardless of culture, language and creed must ensure that space exploration will improve the quality of life for the benefit of all humankind’’

4. ‘’We express the hope and the conviction that our common future ought to proceed ethically, with an understanding of the long-term consequences of our actions, and with all of humanity walking forward together as one’’


The Updated Vision of the Space Generation Advisory Council
’’Employ the creativity and vigour of youth
in advancing human development
through peaceful uses of the outer space’’

NB: SGAC has been an official observer member of the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of the Outer Space (UN COPUOS) since 2001.


As a global youth network, SGAC has a numberly of products;

• Space Policy: SGAC’s main work is in advancing space policy by presenting the views of youth to the UN and other International Organizations. SGAC exercises this through its permanent observer status in UN COPUOS, research projects, and other cooperative agreements within the space industry. The policy input of SGAC to date includes regular input to COPUOS, including to the UNISPACE-III Action Teams. We give input to national and international space agencies, for example the SGAC was the only non-governmental organization invited to the Space Policy Summit in Houston in 2002 which gathered heads of space agencies and major space companies to discuss the future of space. SGAC was invited by the European Commission to provide the perspective of the future European space workforce during the consultation process for the Green Paper on European Space Policy.

• Yuri’s Night World Space Party: Since 2001, the space generation has celebrated Yuri Gagarin’s 12 April first human space flight, in which during day time there are some activities that take place such as community services, education fund raising and rocking parties at night. This event is celebrated nearly in all six inhabited continents across the world.

• Space Generation Congress (SGC): This is World’s number one youth space meeting, it is the annual event of SGAC that allows hundreds of worldwide members of the space generation to meet in one place for working groups, networking, and leadership development, whereby delegate selection to this event is based on the contributions to online projects in the proceeding months. Last year the SGC took place in Hyderabad India, and this year it is going to take place in Glasgow, Scotland in UK.

• Space Education: SGAC strives to encourage and improve education in space-related curriculum around the world through introducing space subjects to places where space is not typically studied. This is a common theme of interest in SGAC members and projects.



So far SGAC has done a lot and still it does the following/SGAC Activities

• SGAC identifies and connects a global volunteer base of young people who have an interest in space, a passion for making a difference, and a commitment to action. This network allows active and ambitious young people to feed off of each other’s enthusiasm.

• SGAC also foster connections to current leaders, top space professionals, and global organizations, allowing members of the space generation to have direct access to the knowledge of their forerunners.

• SGAC is designed to give a youth inputs to space policy makers and to maintain presentation of the world’s youth in global space forums.

• SGAC supports young people in nations that may just be developing space happenings, and who wish to add the power of youth to progress their nations.

• SGAC creates infrastructure to help young people create offshoot programmes like Yuri’s Night World Space Party, MoonMars Workshop, Cosmos Education, and others, using the resources of experience and volunteers within the group. These programs go on to be independent entities supporting space with their won visions and missions.

• SGAC is a unique position to increase international understanding and co-operation of future space leaders while they are first developing world views. Members of SGAC also typically have a strong dedication to educating children of the world to make sure the next generation will continue to explore.


Space generation Advisory Council (SGAC) is in the front line to promote space exploration and that is why it strongly call upon all youth living in this planet earth to join SGAC so that;
• To be informed
• To be involved
• To be a leader
Give shape to the future, get involved, and join us via


www.spacegeneration.org
www.spacegeneration.org/africa
SGAC Executive Officer
info@spacegeneration.org
SGAC Regional Coordinator for Africa
Castory Ntullu
cnlizget_24@yahoo.com
+255(0)713-303-697