Putting the interests of regional Space Users at the centre, NEREUS will engage in political dialogue with relevant institutional players, such as the European Parliament, the European Commission and its agencies, the Committee of the Regions and the European Space Agency. NEREUS will continue its advocacy to underline the Regions’ role in the implementation of the European Space Strategy and highlight the user dimension. ln this pursuit, strengthening relations with other stakeholder organisations is considered vital to identify commonalities and joint political objectives. ln this context and amongst others, the network offers its members a platform to define political positions and a forum to discuss and exchange current technological and socio-economic-technological evolutions. The network emphasizes the meaning of Space across sectors addressing the relevant policy domains, regional strategies and programs. As a consequence, NEREUS has a two-fold approach:
- technology- and thematic-oriented, in order to ensure the convergence of upstream space technologies’ development and citizen’s best interests
- as well as addressing the impacts of Space on different application domains with high relevance for citizens and their regions.
ln the spirit of a bottom-up approach, to get closer to the regional ecosystems, the network will commit to highlight space solutions in different application domains from public health to agriculture and digitalisation, while stimulating the exchange of experiences and showing how spacebased information and new space applications can be exploited to complement public, regional and territorial policy objectives but also the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development etc. The network considers of great importance to advocate for (i) optimal framework conditions for the development and uptake of Space applications in conjunction with publicly funded programs and initiatives, as well as (ii) globally competitive markets for Space based services and products that respond to the needs of society and serve public policy purposes.
Space 4 Growth and Jobs – Conference (Brussels, BE)
In 2014 the European flagship projects Galileo and Copernicus (European Earth observation program) entered the stage of operability, providing free access... View Article
Space Solutions to EU Societal Challenges – Confere...
“Space solutions to EU societal challenges”, a high-level conference organized by Regione Lazio and NEREUS, with support of the Italian Ministry... View Article
Space: An enabling tool and facilitator for existing EIP ...
On 26 June 2014 NEREUS organized the workshop “Space – an enabling tool and facilitator for existing European Innovation Partnerships... View Article
The role of EU flagship space programs to respond to soci...
On 6 March 2013, representatives from European Institutions, European Space Agency, European Science Foundation, European research organisations and universities were... View Article
The Growing Uses of Copernicus across Europe’s Regi...
NEREUS and ESA launched their joint publication “The Growing Use of GMES across Europe’s Regions” with a festive evening-event on 10 October 2012. Organized... View Article
4th Space Conference on EU Space Policy (Brussels, BE)
On 8-9 November 2011 Business Bridge Europe in collaboration with the European Commission, the European Parliament and its Sky and... View Article
Multiannual Financial Framework Perspective and Space Co...
“We need more space for a better Union and more Union for a better space” Michel Praet Cabinet of... View Article
The Future of GMES after 2014 from a regional perspective...
NEREUS, under the auspices of the Belgian Presidency of the EU, held a conference debate on “The future of GMES... View Article
A new Space Policy for Europe – Conference (Brussel...
On 26-27 October 2010, “Sky and Space” Intergroup of the European Parliament and Business Bridge Europe (BBE), organized a high... View Article