ESA Day in Slovakia
On 16 March 2023, the ESA Day in Slovakia was held in Košice, Slovakia. ESA Days, organised in cooperation with the Member States, are an opportunity to communicate together on space achievements, future milestones and ambitions.
The ESA Day in Slovakia was organised by the Forum of Engineers and Technicians of Slovakia (FITS), in cooperation with ESA, the Association of Slovak Scientific and Technical Societies (ZSVTS), the Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic (MINEDU), the Slovak Space Office and the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO).
The conference celebrated the Associate Membership of the Slovak Republic in ESA, which officially started on 13 October 2022, following on from the period of that Slovakia was a cooperating state within ESA’s Plan for European Cooperating States programme from 2016.
ESA has cooperated with MINEDU and the Slovak Space Office to showcase the fruitful cooperation between the entities since 2010.
Representatives of the institutions who took part in the event were Ján Horecký, Minister of Education, Science, Research and Sport of the Slovak Republic, and Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General (by a video message) with President of ZSVTS and representatives of the Slovak Space Office.
The objectives of these events are to raise awareness about European space ambitions, to inform decision-makers, media and the general public about ESA activities and Member States involvement country by country, and to further strengthen ESA’s connection to our Member States and their citizens.
