Official group photo Space19+

Ministers from ESA’s Member States, along with Associate Member Slovenia and Cooperating State Canada, gathered in Seville, Spain, 27-28 November 2019, to discuss future space activities for Europe and the budget of Europe’s space agency for the next three years.

Front row, from left to right:  Mrs Mona Keijzer, State Secretary of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy, Netherlands; Ms Orsolya Ildikó Ferencz, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Department of Space Activity, Hungary; Mr John Halligan, Minister of State for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Ireland; M. David Clarinval, Ministre du Budget, de la Fonction publique et de la Politique scientifique, Belgium; Ms Stine Jørgensen, Deputy Director General, Ministry for Higher Education and Science, Denmark; Mr Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy and Minister of Health, Ministry of the Economy, Luxembourg; Mr Manuel Heitor, Co-Chair of the ESA Council at Ministerial Level, Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education, Portugal; Jan Woerner, ESA Director General; Mme Frédérique Vidal, Co-Chair of the ESA Council at Ministerial Level, Ministre de l’Enseignement supérieur de la Recherche et de l’Innovation, France; Mr Pedro Duque, Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Spain; Ms Matilda Ernkrans, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Sweden; Mr Andreas Reichhardt, Federal Minister, Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria; Mr Riccardo Fraccaro, Undersecretary to the Presidency of the Council of Ministers with responsibility for Space, Italy; Mr  Thomas Jarzombek, Federal Government Coordinator of German Aerospace Policy, Germany;  Mrs Martina Hirayama, Secretary of State for Education and Research, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation, Switzerland.

Back row, from left to right: Mr Aleš Cantarutti, State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Development and Technology, Slovenia; Mr Viljar Lubi, Deputy Secretary General for Economic Development, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications, Estonia; Mr Marek Nieduzak, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Poland;  Mr. Tomáš Èoèek, First Deputy Minister of Transport Czech Republic; Ms Elzbieta Bienkowska, DG GROW, European Commission; Mr Petri Peltonen, Under Secretary of State, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Finland; Graham Turnock, Chief Executive, UK Space Agency, United Kingdom, Mr Christian Hauglie-Hanssen, Director General, Norwegian Space Agency, Norway; Mr Antonis Tzortzakakis, Secretary General of Telecommunications and Post, Ministry of Digital Governance, Greece; Mr Marius-Ioan Piso, Romanian Space Agency, Romania; Mr Sylvain Laporte, President of the Canadian Space Agency, Canada.