BOOSTING UKRAINIAN SPACE COOPERATION
WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION
Saturday, 14 February 2009 09:00
We would like to welcome on board of our expert team two new personalities, one from the French Space Agency (CNES),
Mr Jean-Pascal Le Franc, the other one from the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Dr Daniela Niessen.
Mr Jean-Pascal Le Franc, head of the European Affairs department at CNES, already attended the last week ESA seminar and gave two interesting presentations on the new European Space Policy and its implementation. He will be, obviously, the keystone of our component on ESA organization and rules.
Dr Daniela Niessen, expert in legislation affairs, specialist in the Unidroit convention, will complete the DLR team, replacing Ms Isabelle Arnold. She will participate to the next legislation seminar to take place in Kiev at NSAU on February 26-27th, 2009.
Monday, 09 February 2009 00:00
A first seminar on ESA organization took place at NSAU (February 11-13th, 2009). The objective of this seminar was to give to NSAU and to other Ukrainian companies active in the Space area a good understanding of the ESA organization and working rules from the national Space Agency perspective (CNES and DLR). A special session was dedicated to the cooperation between ESA and member states and stressed the bilateral relationships. The seminar was opened by Mr B.Atamanenko, director of the department of International Relations of NSAU.
Saturday, 07 February 2009 00:00
Our Space Twinning project was officially associated to the annual press conference hold at NSAU on February 6th by the general director Yuri Sergueevitch Alexeev. This annual press conference is devoted traditionally to review the activities and achievements of the previous 2008 year in the Space area and to describe the program of the coming year (2009).
We were kindly given the opportunity to talk for about ten minutes, in front of all the Press and the majority of TV channels, about our Twinning activity and stress our first results after nearly one year of existence. We received very warm comments and high ratings from Mr Alexeev and the importance of our Twinning project in the NSAU program was clearly demonstrated.
Friday, 06 February 2009 00:00
At the initiative of the Space Twinning project the first Conference on satellite navigation, and more precisely on the European project Galileo, took place on February 4-5th 2009 in Kiev in the PAO main Conference room at Prorezna St. 15.. Representatives of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) participated actively to the presentation part, as well as in the round tables organized at the end of each day. The seminar was opened by Mr Eduard Kuznietsov, NSAU deputy general director, Mr Yaroslav Yatskiv, academician, director of the Main Astronomic Observatory and vice president of the Academy of Sciences and Mr Dmytro Babeychuk, deputy head of the State Aviation administration.
Wednesday, 04 February 2009 21:29
A new business incubator based on Space technology transfer was set up recently at the National Space Agency of Ukraine. Mr Borys Atamanenko, director of the International Relations department at NSAU, responsible for this new structure, took the opportunity of the presence of Mr Thorsten Rudolph, our Galileo expert, and director of the ACSN structure in Germany, to organize a meeting in the new, fully equipped, room devoted to this activity.
A presentation of the ACSN structure and of the numerous companies initiated within this structure was made, generating many questions and detailed answers. This unformal meeting, attended by Mr Eduard Kuznietsov, NSAU deputy general director, allowed a fruitful exchange of experiences and paved the way for further cooperation.
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