Vancouver Institute

Vancouver Institute

SPECIAL LECTURE: COOPERATION IN OUTER SPACE

When: Where: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre, UBC’s Point Grey Campus, 2194 Health Sciences Mall, Vancouver.

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Johann-Dietrich Wörner
President of Germany’s Academy of Science and Engineering, and former Director-General of the European Space Agency

You are invited to the first annual John S. MacDonald Outer Space Lecture. Admission is free. The speaker will be Johann-Dietrich Wörner, President of Germany’s Academy of Science and Engineering, and former Director-General of the European Space Agency. He will be speaking on the science-engineering-policy interface and new challenges for international cooperation in outer space.

You can find more information about this talk at https://bit.ly/3kEhJN3, and on the Outer Space Institute website at http://outerspaceinstitute.ca/.

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