{"id":222206,"date":"2014-12-02T09:29:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"fd35bca3be32c5c17eb8685b1992d4d8"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:29:00","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T13:29:00","slug":"european-ministers-and-representatives-at-the-esa-council-at-ministerial-level-luxembourg-on-2-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=222206","title":{"rendered":"European ministers and representatives at the ESA Council at Ministerial Level, Luxembourg, on 2 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/12\/european_ministers_and_representatives_at_the_esa_council_at_ministerial_level_luxembourg_on_2_december_2014\/15092072-2-eng-GB\/European_ministers_and_representatives_at_the_ESA_Council_at_Ministerial_Level_Luxembourg_on_2_December_2014_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMinisters in charge of space activities within the 20 ESA Member States and Canada met at the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, Luxembourg, on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> &nbsp;December 2014, to take key decisions on Europe&#8217;s launcher programmes, the European Participation in the ISS Exploitation Programme, the future European strategy for exploration and the evolution of ESA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFront, from left: Karel Dobe\u0161, Deputy Minister of Transport, Czech Republic; Anders L\u00f6nn, State Secretary for Higher Education and Research, Sweden; Rt Hon Greg Clark, Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities, United Kingdom; Genevi\u00e8ve Fioraso, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, France; Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Luxembourg; Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; Mauro Dell\u2019Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, Switzerland; Brigitte Zypries,&nbsp;Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany; Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education, University and Research, Italy; Alois St\u00f6ger, Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria; Elke Sleurs, Secretary of State for Space Policy, Belgium; Grazyna Henclewska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economy, Poland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBack, from left: Mihnea Cosmin Costoiu, Minister Delegate for Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technological Development, Romania; Christos Vasilakos, Secretary General for Research and Technology, Greece ; Nuno Crato, Minister of Education and Science, Portugal; Arne Benjaminsen, Director General, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway; Bego\u00f1a Cristeto, Secretary General for Industry and SME, Spain ; Jasper Wesseling, Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Innovation, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands; Paudie Coffey, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Ireland; Petri Peltonen, Director General, Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland ; Uffe Toudal-Pedersen, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark; Luc Br\u00fbl\u00e9, acting President of the Canadian Space Agency, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2014\/12\/european_ministers_and_representatives_at_the_esa_council_at_ministerial_level_luxembourg_on_2_december_2014\/15092072-2-eng-GB\/European_ministers_and_representatives_at_the_ESA_Council_at_Ministerial_Level_Luxembourg_on_2_December_2014_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nMinisters in charge of space activities within the 20 ESA Member States and Canada met at the ESA Council Meeting at Ministerial Level, Luxembourg, on 2<sup>nd<\/sup> &nbsp;December 2014, to take key decisions on Europe&#8217;s launcher programmes, the European Participation in the ISS Exploitation Programme, the future European strategy for exploration and the evolution of ESA.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nFront, from left: Karel Dobe\u0161, Deputy Minister of Transport, Czech Republic; Anders L\u00f6nn, State Secretary for Higher Education and Research, Sweden; Rt Hon Greg Clark, Minister of State for Universities, Science and Cities, United Kingdom; Genevi\u00e8ve Fioraso, Secretary of State for Higher Education and Research, France; Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Luxembourg; Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; Mauro Dell\u2019Ambrogio, State Secretary for Education and Research, Switzerland; Brigitte Zypries,&nbsp;Parliamentary State Secretary, Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy, Germany; Stefania Giannini, Minister of Education, University and Research, Italy; Alois St\u00f6ger, Federal Minister for Transport, Innovation and Technology, Austria; Elke Sleurs, Secretary of State for Space Policy, Belgium; Grazyna Henclewska, Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Economy, Poland.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBack, from left: Mihnea Cosmin Costoiu, Minister Delegate for Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technological Development, Romania; Christos Vasilakos, Secretary General for Research and Technology, Greece ; Nuno Crato, Minister of Education and Science, Portugal; Arne Benjaminsen, Director General, Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries, Norway; Bego\u00f1a Cristeto, Secretary General for Industry and SME, Spain ; Jasper Wesseling, Deputy Director General for Enterprise and Innovation, Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands; Paudie Coffey, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government, Ireland; Petri Peltonen, Director General, Ministry of Employment and the Economy, Finland ; Uffe Toudal-Pedersen, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Higher Education and Science, Denmark; Luc Br\u00fbl\u00e9, acting President of the Canadian Space Agency, Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}