Atlantic Interactions promotes meeting on Terceira island

From April 20 to 21, Terceira Island will host a high-level meeting to promote North-South / South-North dialogue, with a view to an integrated approach to issues related to space, oceans, climate and the environment. date managementThe event will be attended by more than 30 international delegations and will involve more than 200 participants.

In 2016, MCTES and FCT began a series of international workshops, held in New York, Ponta Delgada, Lisbon, Paris, Brazil and Brussels, among others, with a view to defining an R&D agenda for the Atlantic and creating the AIR Center - Atlantic International Research Center.

The AIR Center aims to project itself as an international cooperation platform dedicated to research in the areas of aerospace, oceans, climate change and energy, networked research, supported by infrastructures and initiatives to attract foreign investment.

This meeting, to be held on Terceira Island, will involve dialogue between governments, industry and science. It will be attended by government representatives and companies from numerous countries, including: South Africa, Germany, Angola, Argentina, Bulgaria, Brazil, China, Colombia, South Korea, Spain, United States of America, Finland, France, Greece, Netherlands, India, Ireland, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, United Kingdom, Romania, Senegal, Sweden and Uruguay, among others. The European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the United Nations will also be represented at the event.

See the program and the list of participants.