The European Commission has recently launched the new EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation — Horizon 2020 as a continuation of FP7, which will come to an end. In the near future, calls for proposals for the new programme will be launched The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), as national coordinator of space, security and aeronautics activities, will organize an informative session, in order to present to organizations from Romania the opportunities to participate and win projects.

The event is dedicated to all the actors in these three areas, which are interested in participating in the Horizon 2020 programme: industry (including SMEs), laboratories/research institutes, universities, decision makers, end-users, government representatives.

The session will take place on 16 December 2013 in the auditorium of the National Institute for Aerospace Research — Elie Carafoli, Boulevard Iuliu Maniu no. 220, Bucharest, between 9:30 and 13:00. For additional information please visit the event web page.

The event will be attended by representatives of the European Commission, who will present the upcoming calls for proposals in the three areas — space, security and aeronautics.

For details:

Anca Costea - National Point of Contact for FP7 Space, Security, Aeronautics.

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The Romanian Space Agency (ROSA) signed the Multilateral Agreement for the Euclid mission, during the Science Programme Committee meeting, held on 28 November 2013, in Paris. Scheduled for launch in 2020, the Euclid mission will map the shape, brightness and 3D distribution of two billion galaxies, having as objective to identify the roles played by dark mater and dark energy in the evolution and expansion of the Universe.

The Euclid Multilateral Agreement provides the legal framework for the provision of the scientific instruments for the Euclid payload, and the legal framework for part of the Science Ground Segment for Euclid. This agreement is between the European Space Agency and the funding agencies of the eleven European countries participating in the Euclid Mission Consortium. Romania was represented by the Romanian Space Agency through Dr. Dumitru Hasegan.

In the Euclid Consortium, Romania is represented by the Institute of Space Science (ISS), where an Euclid group of researchers is coordinated by Dr. Lucia Aurelia Popa. Member of the Consortium Board since the beginnings of the mission, Dr. Lucia Popa is the national point of contact. To find out more about the ISS Euclid Group, please visit this page, and for details on their activity, you can watch this short presentation movie.

Watch the Swarm launch event live from the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and liftoff from Plesetsk, Russia (all times in EET, local time in Romania)

ESA Live Streaming Channel

12:45–13:45 Welcome by Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General; Prof. Volker Liebig, ESA Director of Earth Observation Programmes; Thomas Reiter, Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations
13:45–14:10 Live coverage of launch from Plesetsk, Russia – liftoff at 13:02
14:10–15:20 Break
15:20–15:50 Live coverage from European Space Operations Centre of the acquisition of first signals
15:50 End of live transmission. Replay videos will be available soon after the event

ESA’s three-satellite Swarm mission aims to unravel one of the most mysterious aspects of our planet: the magnetic field.

More about Swarm at www.esa.int/swarm