Today a brand new call in which the the European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office lists opportunities for students and radio amateurs to join GENSO, was opened and released to the public through the ESA Education Office Website .

Two years after the project kick-off, following demonstrations of concept and basic developments, the GENSO teams now look forward to continuing with the advanced development. Considering that a majority of the developers are students, participating in the project during a limited amount of time while they attend university courses, this leads to an increased need of expanding the development teams in order to maintain efficiency and quality.

The call is open to students and amateur radio enthusiasts from any country, although preference will be given to students from the member countries of the ISEB Agencies, in particular if their participation is supported by their universities. Please visit the ESA Education Office Website - read more about the call, download associated documents and read the instructions for how to apply for one or several of the opportunities.

GENSO is a project initiated under the auspices of the International Space Education Board (ISEB). This board consists of the Education Departments of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA), CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) , (ESA), the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and the National Aeronatics and Space Administration (NASA).

The project is managed by the Education Projects Division of ESA. It was kicked off on the 5th October 2006 when the previous assessment study was presented to ISEB and they accepted the implementation plan, which is now well under way.

A global set of development teams are working on the requirements for GENSO, and are currently being allocated work packages accordingly.