Hungary’s ministerial commissioner for space research Dr Orsolya Ferencz called for a common European space research strategy and regulation in an address to COREPER I ambassadors in the Hungarian Parliament on Saturday, 13 July.
Dr Ferencz told the deputies of the permanent representatives to the EU that European countries were no ‘great powers’ in the area of space research and pointed out
the need for a common strategy and regulation to stay in competition with the United States or China.
Dr Ferencz also detailed Hungary’s Space Strategy, launched in 2021, and the astronaut selection process for the Hungarian to Orbit programme. She said the European Space Agency had signed several hundred contracts with Hungarian companies since the country had become a full-fledged ESA member in 2015. She added that Hungary had spent over €25 million on space research this year alone.
The commissioner went on to speak about UniSpace, a higher education programme in space subjects in which 21 Hungarian universities were participating. She said the course would offer instruction in English, too, from the autumn.
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Sources: MTI/Hungarian Conservative
