The Odysseus contest is now officially launched!!  This is a pan-European competition aimed at students 14 to 18 years old from schools around the European Union. The contest is designed to challenge talented young people on the themes of Solar System, Spaceship global cooperation and Co-evolution of life.  In order to submit their entry participants will have to create a collaborative team, which would design and demonstrate an innovative project in one of the contest’s themes.  Entries to the Odysseus contest must be submitted by the 15th January 2013 and teams’ registration will remain open until 8th January 2013.  The contest is organized in the context of the Odysseus project, which is led by Signosis and co-funded by the European Commission under the 7th Framework Programme, in the Space area for ”Studies and events in support of European Space Policy”.  For more information please visit the website of the Odysseus contest (http://www.odysseus-contest.eu).