Cooperation of Space NCPs as a Means to Optimise Services

Space.EU

Dates: from 28 February 2012 to 29 February 2012
Place: Brussels, DIAMANT Conference Centre, Belgium
Language: English

Europe’s place in space is evolving rapidly, and the coming years and months will see a number of crucial steps.

Space^EU aims to help space practitioners to understand the opportunities in this developing space landscape, and to take advantage of them. It will benefit both established operators and potential new entrants, with a particular focus on SMEs.

The topics to be covered by experts in the field will include

- looking to the future, both the near term (eg the 2012 FP7 Space Call) and beyond (Space in Horizon 2020, future ESA activities)

- the key European Programmes – European Commission, ESA, and leading member states – and how to contribute to them

- the activities of leading players in the European Space Industry

- interaction with key space-faring non-EU countries

There will be structured matchmaking sessions with pre-arranged face-to-face meetings on the basis of your fields of interest. This will provide an ideal environment to take serious steps towards creating new partnerships, alongside the excellent facilities for informal networking provided by Diamant Brussels (http://www.diamant.be).

Space^EU is organized by COSMOS and builds on the hands-on experience of the network of space National Contact Points (NCPs), so it will be designed to meet practitioners’ real needs.

Registration is now available on www.space2012.eu!