ESA Ministerial conference : Latest from Lucerne

Date: Wed, Nov 30, 2016 GMT

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Type: ESA TV Exchange

Format: 16:9

ESA’s Ministerial Council is taking place in Lucerne, Switzerland on 1–2 December.

Ministers in charge of space activities from the 22 ESA Member States, Slovenia and Canada meet to decide on future space activities for Europe.

The meeting will further the vision of a United Space in Europe in the era of Space 4.0.

This video sets the scene of this key meeting.

Files will be posted  on ESA TV News FTP  (details below) in the dedicated "ESA Ministerial Conference 2016" folder.

This 30 November : images of Lucerne and of the venue are available.  

On 1 December files will be posted by mid day covering arrival of Ministers, opening speech of Johann Schneider-Ammann, President of the Swiss Confederation and start of the conference.

On 2 December, after the end of conference, interviews and highlights of the press conference (webstreamed live on ESA portal)  will be published as soon as possible.

For more information please contact ESA TV Team:

Dominique DETAIN :Dominique.detain@esa.int /+33 685 114 681

Chris COURTENAY TAYLOR: chrisct@worldwidepictures.tv / + 44 7774 275 951  

More information at: http://www.esa.int/About_Us/Ministerial_Council_2016

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