Chair : Dominique TILMANS, Chairwoman of the Belgian Space Working Group and Chairwoman of the 15th EISC

Welcome Address by Sabine de BETHUNE, Chairwoman of the Belgian Senate

Opening Address by Dominique TILMANS, Chairwoman of the Belgian Space Working Group and Chairwoman of the 15th EISC

Addresses:

• Philippe COURARD, Belgian Deputy Minister for Science Policy
• Jean-Jacques DORDAIN, Director General of ESA
• Vittorio PRODI, Chair of the Sky and Space Intergroup of the European Parliament
• Video message from Luca Parmitano, astronaut onboard the ISS

Chair : Frank DE WINNE, Astronaut, Head of the European Astronaut Centre Department

Panel Debate with young space scientists and young space professionals from the EISC Member States moderated by Kai-Uwe SCHROGL, Head of the ESA Policies Department:

• Kristel MIJNENDONCKX, PhD student at the Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve (UCL) and Belgian Nuclear Research Center (SCK*CEN), Belgium.
• Błażej ŻYLIŃSKI, Student at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland.
• Vivien CROES, recently a trainee for Kayser-Threde GmbH, Munich, Germany.
• Işıl ŞAKRAKER, PhD Candidate at the University of Liège and Von Karman Institute For Fluid Dynamics, Belgium.
• Christophe MEERTS, Engineer at Swiss Space Systems, Switzerland.
• Ignacio SERNA ZAPLANA, Deputy Project Manager at EADS, CASA Espacio, in Spain.
• Mart NOORMA, Associate Professor at the University of Tartu, Estonia.
• Ciara MCGRATH, undergoing a MEng Aero-Mechanical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, The United Kingdom.  
• Francesca INES MORETTO, Fellow in the National and International Relations Division, Italian Space Agency (ASI), Italy.
• Virginie HAGER, Payload Mission Increment Preparation Engineer at ESA/ESTEC, The Netherlands.
• Dragos BRATASANU, Research Scientist at the Romanian Space Agency ROSA, Romania.
• Andrea JAIME ALBALAT, Executive Director of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC)
• Hugo SIMOES, Young ESA representative, Italy.

Intervention by Dionysia-Theodora Avgerinopoulou, Member of Parliament Greece, Chairperson of the Environment Committee of the Greek Parliament.

Chair : Polish-Belgian-French Trio Presidency

Introduction by Jean-François CLERVOY, ESA Astronaut, Chairperson of the Jury

Winner: Maxime Puteaux

 Buffet Lunch in the Presidential Reception Rooms of the Belgian Senate

Chair : Senator Lieve MAES, member of  the Belgian Space Working Group

Debate with space industry representatives moderated by Alain RATIER, Director General of EUMETSAT

• Jean-Yves LE GALL, President of the CNES
• Peter GROGNARD, CEO SEPTENTRIO
• Alain BORIES, Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of OHB Technology A.G
• Joël CHENET, Vice President of Strategy and Business Development of Thales Alenia Space
• Aarti HOLLA-MAINI, Secretary General ESOA
• Olivier DUPONT, CEO LAMBDA X
• Olivier LEMAITRE, Head of Brussels Office ASD-Eurospace

Conclusions by Peter HULSROJ, Director of the European Space Policy Institute

Family Photo

Speech by Senator Dominique Tilmans

Welcome Address by Dominique TILMANS, Chairwoman of the Belgian Space Working Group and Chairwoman of the 15th EISC

Appointment of the 2014 Presidency – France

Official closing of the 15^th EISC