European Space Council

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The European Space Council ( English European Space Council ) was a joint conference of the highest bodies of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union . His task was to coordinate space activities of both organizations and to develop a common European space policy. The Space Council did not have a mandate. All decisions had to be confirmed by the bodies responsible for it - the ESA Council at ministerial level and the EU Council of Ministers for Competitiveness . The Space Council was supported by a joint secretariat. Together with the High Level Group on Space Policy (Engl. High Level Space Policy Group , HSPG) it prepared the meetings.

The EU-ESA framework agreement of November 25, 2004 regulates the cooperation between the EU and ESA and the tasks of the Space Council .

Meetings

Space Council meetings:

  • 1st conference on November 25, 2004 in Brussels under the leadership of Federal Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn and the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Laurens Brinkhorst .
  • 2nd conference on June 7, 2005 in Luxembourg, chaired by Federal Research Minister Edelgard Bulmahn and Luxembourg Minister François Biltgen .
  • 3rd meeting on November 28, 2005 in Brussels under the direction of Minister of Economic Affairs Michael Glos , represented by State Secretary Georg Wilhelm Adamowitsch and the British State Secretary and Minister for Science and Innovation, David Sainsbury .
  • 4th conference on May 22, 2007 in Brussels under the leadership of the German Parliamentary State Secretary Peter Hintze and the Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs Maria van der Hoeven .
  • 5th meeting on September 26, 2008 in Brussels under the leadership of the French Minister for Education and Research Valérie Pécresse and the Dutch Minister for Economic Affairs, Maria van der Hoeven.
  • 6th meeting on May 29, 2009 in Brussels under the joint chairmanship of the Czech Minister of Education Miroslava Kopicová for the EU Council on Competition and the Italian Minister for Education, Higher Education and Research and current Chair of the ESA Council at ministerial level, Mariastella Gelmini . Participants also included Günter Verheugen , Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Enterprise and Industry, and ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain.
  • 7th meeting on November 26, 2010, co-chaired by the Belgian Minister for SMEs, Self-Employed, Agriculture and Science Policy , Sabine Laruelle , on behalf of the EU Competition Council and the Italian State Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Research, Giuseppe Pizza . Participants included Antonio Tajani , Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Industry and Entrepreneurship, and ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain .

background

Formerly, ESA was the only organization in Europe that dealt with space technology and space policy across Europe. In the 2000s, the European Union (EU) also saw an obligation to develop a coherent space policy. This should better match the demand for space-based services and applications from the EU on the one hand and the supply of space systems from the ESA on the other. Europe should become more internationally competitive as a provider of space technology and use space technologies - for example for environmental monitoring or communication - better for the states of Europe.

For the EU, Copernicus and Galileo are core projects that it carries out together with ESA. Other topics are satellite communication and space research, as well as cooperation with Russia. The space exploration (Engl. Exploration ) and development of space transporters (Engl. Launcher ) for an independent European access to space ESA fall.

In its Star 21 report (2002), the EU put its future space commitment at 5 billion euros per year. That would almost double the space spending in Europe. For comparison: in 2005 ESA had a budget of almost 3 billion euros per year. Far less than 1 billion euros per year is realistic (as of June 2006).

A survey of citizens, companies and institutions was carried out to develop a long-term strategy. It was based on the Green Paper on EU space policy from January 2003, in which the problem areas and issues relating to European space travel were addressed.

In November 2003 the Commission published the results in the White Paper - Space , which also covered the European space strategy. Two years later, the EU presented a draft for a joint space program called: The European Space Policy - First Approaches . In the EU's draft constitution , the use and exploration of space was reflected as a task for the European Union.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ First ever 'Space Council' paves the way for a European space program. ESA, November 25, 2004, accessed August 11, 2009 .
  2. ↑ Further steps towards a European space policy. ESA, June 7, 2005, accessed August 11, 2009 .
  3. ↑ Global Monitoring for Environment and Security is main issue for 3rd Space Council. ESA, November 28, 2005, accessed August 11, 2009 .
  4. ^ Europe's Space Policy becomes a reality today. ESA, May 22, 2007, accessed August 11, 2009 .
  5. ^ Ministers meet to take forward the European Space Policy. ESA, September 26, 2008, archived from the original on June 22, 2012 ; accessed on August 11, 2009 .
  6. ↑ N ° 14–2009: Ministers emphasize the contribution of space to economic recovery through innovation. ESA, May 29, 2009, accessed February 28, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Ministers underline the priority of Galileo and GMES. ESA, November 26, 2010, accessed February 28, 2017 .
  8. ↑ STAR 21 - Aerospace Advisory Group presents key recommendations ( Memento from September 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Green Paper - European Space Policy , accessed on August 11, 2009
  10. ↑ Commission of the European Communities: White Paper: Space: European horizons for an enlarged Union - Action plan for the implementation of European space policy