Space Generation Advisory Council
The Space Generation Advisory Council in support of the United Nations Program on Space Application ( SGAC ) is a global network. It connects organizations, young people interested in space travel, students and young professionals and non-governmental organizations. The aim is for the United Nations, in particular the United Nations Office for Outer Space Issues , and its bodies to create a unified goal for future space exploration.
Since 1999 it has had an advisory seat on the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS), which was established in 1959 .
The SGAC is headquartered in Vienna, Austria, with regional representatives in Europe, the Middle East , North America, South America, Africa and Asia-Pacific .
history
It was founded in 1999 in Vienna by alumni of the International Space University Strasbourg on the occasion of the UNISPACE III conference. Over 160 young people from 60 nations took part in the founding forum.
Projects
The SGAC has organized the Space Generation Congress (SGC) every year since 1999 and the Space Generation Fusion Forum (SGFF) since 2012 . It also supports and organizes numerous annually recurring projects:
- Yuri's Night , a global space party in honor of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin , on April 12th each year.
- World Space Week - annually from 4th to 10th In October, the “World Space Week” takes place on a selected space theme.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ SGC 2014 ( Memento from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Fusion Forum 2014 ( Memento from July 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive )