We wish you all a very happy new year, hoping it will bring success to all your cooperative endeavours!

2009 is a very special year for Eurisy: it is indeed 20 years since Eurisy was created by the late Prof. Hubert Curien, to support the peaceful use of space for the development of European Society. We hope you will join us in celebrating Eurisy’s 20 years of existence.

While successfully building bridges between space and society, Eurisy has constantly renewed itself, its scope and activities in order to best respond to the changing needs of its community. In this anniversary year, Eurisy renews its commitment to this mission, and will as always strive to work with all actors who can benefit from the dialogue between space and society.

Eurisy’s anniversary will be celebrated on numerous occasions, the first of which is a Gala reception on the 26th of January in Budapest, followed by a celebration in the framework of the ESA Council meeting in October. You are all welcome to participate in the celebrations and we look forward to working with you again.

Eurisy was invited to attend the first meeting of the MORE4NRG Regions’ Consortium in Lulea, on the 20th of November, following the acceptance of the project application by the INTERREG Joint Technical Committee. On this occasion, the collaboration between the Consortium and Eurisy was formalised, following a vote of the MORE4NRG Consortium Steering Committee.

The MORE4NRG INTERREG project aims at improving energy efficiency in all 11 participating regions: Abruzzo (IT), Flevoland (NL), Gabrovo (BG), Lazio (IT), Maramures (RO), Noord-Brabant (NL), Norrbotten (SE), Valencia (ES), Västernorrland (SE), and Western Greece (GK). The Assembly of the European Regions (AER), with whom Eurisy has collaborated intensively in the past year, is also part of the project.

The case-study initiated with the MORE4NRG Consortium will evaluate the value-added of satellite information and serviced to the concrete needs of the 11 Regions, and will facilite regions’ access to the relevant innovative satellite-based tools.

In order to do this, a team of experts partnering with Eurisy (from EARSC, ESA, ESOA, Euroteleserv, and SFERA) will analyse the needs of the regions and will make recommendations on how to go about implementing best-value satellite solutions, that is, those services that have a maximum positive impact on the largest number of regions, with a minimum investment.

More than just technical recommendations, the group of experts will analyse and make recommendations concerning economics (cost, financing mechanisms, regulatory framework) and organisational issues (decision-making process, human ressource management, management of change etc). The transferability of the implementation model is also a major focus of the case-study, with the stake of allowing the largest number of regions to adapt and use it for their own benefit.

During the Lulea meeting a preliminary calendar of exchanges between the experts and the regions was agreed on, to coincide with the project state-of-the-art seminars in February, March and April 2009.

Europe’s diversity is one of its most powerful assets.  This paradigm also applies to the space sector and to the governance of national space activities in the context of an emerging European framework.  Hence, Eurisy is organising this conference together with its partners to help all European countries identify where and how they can play a role in European space programmes, given their respective assets and specificities, to most benefit from these programmes while at the same time consolidate strategic coherence at European level.

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In the framework of the European Week of Cities and Region 2008, Eurisy organised this workshop during which representatives from local and regional authorities shared their experiences on how innovative satellite information and services can effectively contribute to mitigating and adapting to climate change in the fields of new building compliance, road traffic management and forest fire protection.

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On Thursday, 2^nd October, Prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet, this year’s laureate of Eurisy’s Hubert Curien Award, was presented with the award by the Eurisy President Dr Colin Hicks.  The ceremony took place, during the adequately chosen plenary “Lunar and planetary missions – science and exploration”, at the International Astronautical Congress in Glasgow

The Hubert Curien Award recognises outstanding contributions towards the peaceful use of space and international cooperation. During his brilliant career Prof. Bonnet has significantly contributed towards these goals.

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This conference, organised by Eurisy and hosted by the Committee of the Regions, presented the mid-term findings of Eurisy’s Programme for European Local and Regional Authorities (LRA) in order to stimulate the political debate on how to increase the benefits LRAs obtain from satellite information and services (SIS).

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The workshop “Innovation at the Service of Regional Growth: The Competitive Advantages of Satellite Information and Services”, organised in Dublin on 20-21 May 2008, successfully continued the series of thematic workshops of Eurisy’s programme for Local and Regional Authorities.

80 professionals from over 10 different countries attended the workshop to learn how satellite information and services contribute to sustainable economic development of the regions. The participants represented Local and Regional Authorities (LRAs), the satellite service chain as well as national and European institutions.

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124 participants from 19 countries were welcomed in Sinaia, Romania, for the Eurisy workshop “Regional Risk Management – Integrated Use of Satellite Information and Services”, last 10-11 March 2008.

Mr G. Stahl, Secretary General of the Committee of the Regions, took the opportunity to reaffirm the strategic role Regions have to play in the protection of their citizens, of the environment, property and local economy. He equally emphasized the importance of innovation and territorial co-operation in risk management by Regions confronted with similar risks, and underlined the relevance of satellite information and services as tools for the Regions in dealing with risks.
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Key players from the European and Turkish space communities met on 22 and 23 October for the Eurisy conference “Areas and Mechanisms for Collaboration between Turkish and European Actors in Space Activities”. It was hosted by the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) in its premises in the town of Gebze, near Istanbul. The Conference was co-organised with TÜBITAK and ESA, and supported by DLR and UNOOSA. 

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The workshop “Efficient Management of Coastal Regions and Cities” was held in Tallinn, Estonia, on 17-18 September, with the kind contribution of Enterprise Estonia and the City of Tallinn which helped organise the event.

The Tallinn workshop was the second event of Eurisy’s programme dedicated to Local and Regional Authorities.
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