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President Radev: The Enhanced Cooperation with the European Space Agency will Promote the Technological and Scientific Exchange in the IT, Electronics and Medicine sectors

2017-12-04 19:30:00

Bulgaria has the ambition to reaffirm its positions in sectors with a high added value such as IT, electronics and the development of medicine and the partnership with the European Space Agency is a step to this end. This is what President Rumen Radev said, who visited the European Space Agency (ESA) in Paris today and held talks with the Director General Johann Woerner. The meeting was also attended by professor Petar Getsov, Director of the Bulgarian Space Research and Technology Institute at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The enhanced cooperation between our country and the European Space Agency will also create more opportunities and professional prospects for Bulgarian scholars, engineers, students and university professors, by ensuring financial and material support for the national and international scientific and applied projects. “Bulgaria has a considerable scientific potential, and the necessary experience and traditions in this sphere and we believe that our contribution to the Agency’s goals can be stronger,” the President said at the meeting.

Director General Johann Woerner briefed the Head of State on the work of the Agency, expressing his high appreciation of Bulgaria’s contribution to space research and the cooperation with the Bulgarian Space Research and Technology Institute. Bulgaria has the status of a European cooperating country, and this provides our country the opportunity to use the infrastructure and the services of the European Space Agency to implement its national projects. ESA will ensure access of Bulgarian students to the Agency’s youth programs and Johann Woerner accepted President Radev’s invitation to visit our country and popularize the Agency’s activity.   

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