European institutions agree in considering space activities and applications vital to our society’s growth and development, also in view of their direct impact on citizens’ daily lives. Since the Nineties of the last century, the EU has committed in the development of a European Space Policy, investing a great deal of financial, technical and political resources in promoting and carrying out European Space Programmes and boosting the use and the integration of space-based applications in several EU policies. This action was further strengthened with the introduction of an express and specific competence on space within the title concerning “research and technological development and space” by the Lisbon Treaty (art. 189 TFEU).

Scientific responsible: M.E. De Maestri

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