Manuel Heitor presented today K4P Alliances at the 15th European Space Conference, during the session "Deepening space cooperation between Europe, Africa and Latin America". This session focused on the important role of space policy in addressing new global challenges and how Europe can work towards deeper and more meaningful relations with other spacefaring nations.
The European Space Conference is a cycle of conferences dedicated to the European Space Policy and its technological and industrial challenges, gathering high-level decision makers from across the EU institutions and Member States, the European Space Agency, high-level representatives of the industry, civil society and researchers.
The event took place during two days and closed with a session with the ESA austronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, and the Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Mariya Gabriel.
Manuel Heitor's participation at this meeting was supported by FCT under the projects UIDP/50009/2020- FCT and UIDB/50009/2020- FCT.