About

Practical Solutions for Today’s Global Challenges

Science plays a part in our everyday lives, and its technological applications enables us to develop as a society. In our ever changing world, science plays a role which allows us as a civilisation to advance forward. At ARTEMIS Space our goal is to use science and technology as a tool to provide practical solutions to the global challenges we face. ARTEMIS Space will act as a nexus for facilitating cutting edge research, empowering citizens through enabling the acquisition of  education and skills, and providing technological services and products which benefit humanity

We aim to do this by facilitating a number of innovative projects with our ultimate goal of protecting the planet, supporting sustainable development, and reaching over 1 billion people in deprived communities to tackle poverty.

 The Artemis Open Space Programme will pave the way for civil society to access space to designing hands-on inquiry based workshops for learning, to developing a 21st century science and technology mobile museum, ARTEMIS Space is is leading the way forward in developing a broad range of products and services to provide a lasting impact.

1.1 Vision

ARTEMIS will act as global leader in research, science communication, science education, and public engagement. This will be achieved through promoting excellence in science and innovation, finding solutions to today’s social challenges, and empowering citizens with the acquisition of knowledge and skills to benefit their everyday lives.

1.2 Mission

• To engage the public with science through dialogue and direct participation in decision making to facilitate science active citizenship

• To bridge the gap between science, education, industry and the public

• To develop solutions to today’s challenges through acting as platform for innovation through the application of science and technology

Objectives :

• Increase the public’s awareness of science, promote widespread access to new knowledge, and act as a platform for engaging citizens in scientific research as “Citizen Scientists”

• Support formal and informal science education using space as a tool for inspirational content and aspirational aspects for careers in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

• Facilitate the transfer of knowledge from research and development to benefit our daily lives (health, medical research, technology, GPS, transport etc)

• Development of technological applications through research and development such as micro-satellites for monitoring the Earth’s climate and applications for conserving marine environments

• Provide Teacher Training and educational support through the development of innovative related material developing key and core skills, including numeracy and literacy.

• Engage with local industry and businesses, to drive the economy and support job creation.

Our Team

Ms Sotira Trifourki C.E.O

Sotira was born in Manchester and is a wearer of many hats. By day she is Director of ARTEMIS Space, and by night she is a research astronomer working on Galaxy Formation/Evolution theories and Plasma Cosmology. Sotira had acted an Education working group member for the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and acts as the UK national contact point for Astronomers Without Borders. Sotira also acts as a member of the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) Science Outreach Network representing Cyprus.

A keen science educator and science communicator Sotira has initiated a number of education programmes based around astronomy and science education through her aims to make science accessible to all and to promote STEM careers to young people, including acting as a role model for young women scientists. She is a STEM Ambassador and has participated as a speaker in a number of astronomy and space science conferences. She is past president of the Association for Astronomy Education and currently acts as Vice President and is a member of the British Association of Planetaria and the Association for Science Education.

Contact Sotira at: sotira (at) iuniversequest.com

 

Michael “Halzzy” Kounoupias

Creative Director

 

 

 

 

Michael acts as our Creative Director, overseeing our music, arts and cultural projects. At a young age he realised his true calling was HipHop. He started freestyling with friends “spraying a bar here or there” as he calls it, and eventually started writing to instrumentals. He first stepped into a recording studio at 16 and has never looked back since. In early 2013 he started work on his forthcoming album “See No Evil”  contributing to Artemis Space soundtracks for our forthcoming planetarium shows and feature films.