Res Communis

Facilitating Concrete Partnerships between Ukrainian and European Actors in the Space Sector 12-13 November 2009, Kiev, Ukraine

by P.J. Blount with the blog faculty

EURISY is organizing a conference titled Facilitating Concrete Partnerships between Ukrainian and European Actors in the Space Sector on 12-13 November 2009 in Kiev, Ukraine. According to the second announcement:

Objectives of the Conference
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited a large part of the USSR’s space related scientific and technological capabilities and developed into one of the top eight countries in the international space community. This predestines Ukraine to be an important partner for European space programmes.

Europe and Ukraine have subsequently developed their cooperation in space matters. In recent years an intensification of the cooperation between European and Ukrainian actors has been observed in the fields of Galileo, with EADS, ESA and the EU-funded twinning project “Boosting Ukrainian Space Cooperation with the EU” from April 2008. Within this context, Eurisy is organising this conference to further operational partnership and cooperation between European and Ukrainian actors in the space sector. The conference will provide a forum for industry, SMEs, research institutes and universities to ascertain each other’s programmes and capabilities and to identify opportunities and mechanisms for collaboration.

The conference will focus on four actor-centred topics: European and Ukrainian policies and programmes; institutional support mechanisms for cooperation; European and Ukrainian space economies as well as scientific and educational panoramas.

Registration is open.