Atlantic Interactions Initiative promotes meeting on Terceira Island

Terceira Island will host, from April 20 to 21, 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 date management, which will be attended by more than 30 international delegations and will involve more than 200 participants.

In 2016, MCTES and FCT initiated 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 Research 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 that allow attracting foreign investment.

This meeting, which will 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, namely: 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.

Check out the event's schedule and list of participants .