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The Prime Minister, Minister of State, Xavier Bettel announces that this afternoon, H.R.H. the Grand Duke has honourably discharged, by his own request, Étienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Minister of Health.

By signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of the Economy of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Thales Alenia Space, a Joint Venture between Thales and Leonardo, is further advancing the creation of its Digital Center of Excellence in Luxembourg.

The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the State of New South Wales, Australia, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on future space activities.

The economic mission to the United Arab Emirates (UAE), chaired by HRH the Hereditary Grand Duke and led by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and in the presence of the Minister of Finance, Pierre Gramegna, concluded with a day dedicated to Luxembourg's presence at Expo 2020 Dubai, which will take place from 20 October 2020 to 10 April 2021.

On the second day of the economic mission, chaired by H.R.H. the Hereditary Grand Duke, the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Etienne Schneider, signed with the Minister of the Economy of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Sultan bin Saeed Al Mansouri, a cooperation agreement establishing a regular and quasi-institutional economic dialogue.

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Luxembourg both pursue a policy of economic diversification: While the Grand Duchy wishes to become less dependent on the financial sector, the UAE aims to gradually reduce the share of hydrocarbons in its national economy.

The conference "Health Technologies @ Luxembourg 2020", organised on 20 January in the "Halle des poches à fonte" in Belval, by the Ministry of the Economy and the HealthTech Cluster of Luxinnovation, provided an opportunity to present the latest trends in health technologies in Luxembourg.

During a meeting of a parliamentary committee, Étienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy confirmed that the Government of Luxembourg, together with public and private sector partners, have invested a stake in Orbital Ventures, an investment fund focused on early stage companies engaged in space activities.

Interview with Étienne Schneider in Happen

The Luxembourg Government and NorthStar Earth & Space signed a Letter of Intent on 19 December 2019 to create a Centre of Excellence for Clean Space in Luxembourg and to consider a contribution to NorthStar and its innovation activities in order to promote the safe and sustainable use of outer space for the benefit of all humanity.

The Luxembourg Space Agency today announced that Dr. Junichiro Kawaguchi, Senior Fellow at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will be joining the Advisory Board of the SpaceResources.lu initiative.

Luxembourg is firmly determined to put in place the digital innovation policies and assets needed to foster the emergence of a robust data economy and a start-up ecosystem centred on data-driven innovation.

Launched in 2015 by the Ministry of the Economy, Fit 4 Start is the national reference programme for supporting early stage start-ups.

The Circularity Dataset Initiative launched in 2018 by the Ministry of the Economy of Luxembourg aims at developing an industry standard at European level that provides a regulated framework for circular data on products throughout the whole value chain, from raw materials to finished products, from the use phase to re-usage and recycling.

A Memorandum of Cooperation to further commit to strengthening cooperation in the field of space resources and innovation was signed today by Luxembourg's Deputy Prime Minister, Étienne Schneider, and ESA Director General, Jan Wörner.