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In occasione della sua ultima sessione plenaria, svoltasi il 17 ottobre 2018, il Comitato economico e sociale europeo (CESE) ha adottato un parere teso a migliorare i risultati del programma spaziale dell'UE e a rafforzarne la visibilità. Il CESE sostiene le iniziative avviate dall'UE al fine di rimanere tra le principali potenze spaziali indipendenti, ma chiede maggiori investimenti nella ricerca, nelle start-up e negli incubatori di imprese, nonché una coerente applicazione di un principio di "preferenza europea".
Space holds huge promises for European society. Data from satellites can be used to provide services that can dramatically improve European citizens' everyday lives. The European Commission's new space strategy goes a long way in charting the future course for the civil use of space in Europe, says the EESC in a recently adopted opinion, but should go even further...
The study aims at understanding the links between space and the civil society and explaining how the latter is involved and consulted in EU space policy-making.
The EESC has been always involved in space issues and adopted many opinions in this field. In 2014 the Committee decided to organise an initiative on space to identify the most suitable means to achieve the priorities he has set out in its opinions.
The "Space and Society: bridging the missing links" project aims at helping to generate and maintain political support for current and future space programmes on both EU and national levels; bringing the attention of a larger audience and downstream stakeholders to the announced benefits from the European space policy as well as defining new and concrete actions to be implemented in this context.