Present activities and potential

Bulgarian space coordination
mechanism, stakeholders,
activities and potential (TBI)
Bulgaria - ESA round table meeting
Sofia
13 January 2011
OUTLINE
 National administration coordinating
bodies and interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Present activities and potential
Conclusions
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Bulgarian space activities and EU
Lisbon Treaty
EC Communication on the
European Space Policy
COM212 (2007)
European Council Resolution
on the European Space policy
26/9/2008
European Space policy for space
exploration and transfer of results to the
benefit of society and the citizens
European Parliament Resolution
on the European Space policy
11/2008
BULGARIAN Space Policy
(TBD)
European Space Program
National program for space research
and applications (TBD; draft proposal)
European Space Agency
National administration and executive body
coordinating space matters- research,
industrial transfers and applications (NA)
Academia
NGO’s and
communities
Government
establishments
Business
The successful integration of Bulgaria in the EU requires Bulgarian
participation in the EU policies and the EU executive bodies related to
fulfillment of the Lisbon Treaty related to space exploration
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Space matters coordination mechanism
body
Bulgaria
function
Council of Ministers
Council for European
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EU/EC
Ministry of
Education, Youth
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co-chair
Ministry of Economy,
Energy and Tourism
co-chair
Space Policy
workgroup
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Governmt
structures
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NGO’s
propose related policies,
coordinate and supervise
Advisory function only;
not (yet) an executive body
NEW
under Directorate for Economy
Policy
Academia
coordinates and provides
Bulgarian official positions
to EU
Business
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Main public and private space
R&D and applications players
– advisory and expert
function; bottom-up initiative
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 Government coordinating bodies and
interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Achievements and current activities
Conclusions
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Academic Infrastructure
Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
Broad range of fundamental
and applied sciences R&D
institutions
Space and Solar Terrestrial Research Institute
Institute of Astronomy, Institute of Geophysics, ..
……..
Bulgarian Agricultural Academy
Remote sensing
applications studies
Sofia University
Space physics and other
Technical University - Sofia
Engineering - all aspects
Technical University - Plovdiv
Aerospace engineering,
other
Remote sensing applications
Mining and Geology University
Air flight engineering and
other
Air Force Academy
……
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National Administration coordinating
bodies and interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Achievements and current activities
Conclusions
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SMEs’ and Industry
Cluster AeroSpace Technologies,
Research and Applications (CASTRA)
NEW
– www.castra.org
NGO structure
Members (for now) from Academia(3),Business(7) and other NGOs(2)
Joint project development,
Ambition to represent and integrate the national capacity in
aero$space; improve the R&D and business cooperation and
opportunities for the member and other organizations in the field;
Partner with government and other organizations to establish and
support the aero & space related R&D, technology transfer, product
development & applications, aero-space services and other related
high-tech sectors of the national economy;
Capacity in R&D engineering, technology transfer, product
development, space law, public outreach, education and other
BULGARIAN GMES Office
NEW
Variety of SME’s in all industry areas
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•NGO (in registration) dedicated to
developing national capacity in EO-GMES
•Aircraft and hardware design and repairs,
avionic and control systems, software and
automation, embedded systems, IC’s, other …
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National Administration coordinating
bodies and interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Present activities and potential
Conclusions
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Government structures
Spatial Databases Department,
Executive Agency “Electronic
communications networks and information
systems” at the Ministry of Transport,
Information technology and Communications
Center for Aero-Space monitoring,
Directorate for Natural disaster prevention and
Crisis Response at the Ministry of Interior
National Science Fund,
Ministry of Education, Youth and Science
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Supports building the
capacity for GMES and
INSPIRE programs and
developing the
required legislation
Real time space imagery
data based observation,
evaluation and decision
making analysis of natural
and anthropogenic
phenomena within the
national territory
National R&D project
funding (incl space related),
project supervision and
auditing
OUTLINE
 National Administration coordinating bodies and
interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Present activities and potential
– Academic research
– Education
– NGO activity
– SME's
– Government agencies
Conclusions
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Present activities and potential
Academic Research Activities
SSRI- BAS activities
(separate presentation)
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Present activities and potential
Academic Research Activities
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SSRI-BAS : Ph.D. Programs
Sofia University:
Technical Universities: engineering
programs
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NGO activities
ReSAC : EO-GMES related activities
(separate presentation)
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Present activities and potential
NGO activities
Association Tsiolkovsky : space
education outreach
(separate presentation)
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Present activities and potential
SME's Activities : sample company's profiles
: LUMYCOMP DESIGN , member of CASTRA
(www.castra.org)
- High Technology - the specialists have worked in 1998-1999
ESA XMM Newton X-ray Space
telescope,
extended use 13 years in the
Space since 1998
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with Technical University – Sofia, Sparnex-CoC-Sofia and
Sparnex N.V. – Belgium for European Space Agency (ESA) –
project XMM-Newton, X-ray telescope - mirror motor control
electronics – design, prototyping and production of the flying unit
and spare unit. Europe's largest-ever science satellite. Planed
period of use after the launch – 2 years.
Enlarged by ESA- 2- 3 times finally to 13 years in the Open
Space without any damages :
http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Operations/SEMI2HZTIVE_0.htm
Telecommunication electronics - several types of advanced
HDSL/SDSL Modems, PCMs, regenerator/repeaters were
designed and tenth of thousands were produced with SparnexCoC Sofia and Sparnex N.V. – Belgium for final customer OEM
based products for customers as Nokia, Westel, Telindus,
BelgaCom and countries as Malaysia, Algeria, Iran, Belgium and
Germany. 1998-2004.
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SME's Activities : sample company's profiles
: TELESYS , member of CASTRA (www.castra.org)
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Present activities and potential
SME's Activities : sample company's profiles
:BEVT, member of CASTRA (www.castra.org)
The company is engaged in development,
• Chemical Warfare Agent Detector implementation, engineering, production,
commercial and maintenance applications in
the areas of: Special electronics - Defense
Communication Equipment,
Identification Friend or Foe (IFF) Systems,
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Chemical Detectors;
Main Features •Detector
Consumer electronics; mechanical processing
•Fast detection of all current threat CWAs
of metals, laying of protection coats.
•Continuous real time operation
•Multi-role, Detector and Monitor
•Broad range of operating and storage
environments
•Maintenance free storage
•Low Life-cycle Support Costs
•Proven performance in both open air and laboratory
agent/interferent environments
•Flexible communications interface and network
ready
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Present activities and potential
SME's Activities : sample company's profiles
: NOVORELL , member of CASTRA (www.castra.org)
Radiation Hard Integrated
Circuit design for space
applications;
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Present activities and potential
Government agencies activities
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OUTLINE
National Administration coordinating
bodies and interactions
Academic Infrastructure
SMEs’ and Industry
Government structures
Achievements and current activities
Conclusions
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CONCLUSIONS
Bulgaria has strong tradition, state of the art expertise and knowhow in space exploration – development and implementation of
complete scientific and applied research programs; development
and deployment of space instrumentation, space fundamental
science, ground segment and all related areas.
Bulgarian administration is taking steps to re-establish a national
coordination mechanism on space and related matters , incl
interactions with the EU bodies.
Establishing ESA - Bulgaria relations is a must do thing to
support the development of a knowledge and innovations
based national and European economies
Various Bulgarian organizations from
Academia, Business
entities and NGOs are taking the initiative bottom-up to consolidate
the national activities and capacity in space R&D, technology
development and transfer, incl. the related product and services
businesses development to serve the interest of the public and
private stakeholders and society
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Bulgaria - ESA round table meeting
Sofia
13 January 2011
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OBJECTIVES
ALL ABOUT US: Get to know each other, identify
'WHO is WHO' from both sides towards initiating
institutional interaction(s) Bulgaria - ESA
ALL ABOUT WORKING WITH ESA: Talk about the
mechanisms to interact and work with ESA, the
roadmap towards cooperation; the requirements,
opportunities, constraints and benefits for Bulgaria
as part of EU to participate in the EU space &
applications activities through ESA
ALL ABOUT 'WHAT is NEXT?” Talk about what we
want/can do & achieve further together in 2011 and
beyond;
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Agenda
8.30-9.00 Registration
9.00- 9.15 Introduction: participants, meeting objectives
9.15- 9.40 Presentation from C. de Cooker (30mn)
9.40-10.05 Presentation from A. Fonseca (20 min)
10.05.10.30 Discussion, Q&A on the presentations
10.30- 11.00 Joint presentation from Bulgarian side:
National space activities and involved institutions from academia,
local industry , government structures; national coordination
mechanism related to space
11.00-12.15 Open discussion and Q&A
12.15-13.30
Lunch break
13.30 - 16.00 Round table discussion, Q&A and drafting plan for next
steps
16.00-16.10 Meeting adjourn
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