Module 2, Week 3: TWiR
The third week has passed by and I still feel the effects of jet lag. Although my mind is more focused, my body craves for at least 10 hours of sleep per day. Kind of hard with the amount of work we are dealing with.
This week was business week: financial analysis, cash flows, RFP (Request for Proposal) principles and a workshop on how to write a Business Plan. The idea behind all this training was to prepare us for Assignment 2-2: how to write a proposal for a fictitious International Space Agency’s Call for Proposal.
Between Thursday and Friday we wrote a 15 page document for a lunar orbiter capable of firing a set of penetrators to the moon’s poles. I learned a lot during this assignment, specially on ESA’s approach to Risk Management.
We also managed (how I don’t know) to work on Team Project Oceans. I chose fisheries, so I spent the whole weekend doing research on this topic. The social highlight of the week? A beer@Dubliner’s….to discuss TP Oceans 😛