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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.

In the presence of His Royal Highness the Grand Duke, Luxinnovation, the national agency for the promotion of innovation, celebrated its 35th anniversary at the Athénée de Luxembourg.

In the margins of the New Space Europe Conference on 13 November 2019, Paulette Lenert, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs and Simonetta Di Pippo, Director of United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) signed a funding agreement to support UNOOSA's new "Space Law for New Space Actors" project.

Representatives of DLR and LSA have signed a Letter of Intent to co-operate on space research activities with particular focus on areas such as navigation, satellite communications, space exploration and space resources, including robotics and in-orbit services.

In May 2019, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Space between the Governments of the United States of America and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg designated both NASA and LSA to exchange information about prospective collaboration.

On Thursday 3 October, more than 400 people attended the 9th edition of the Fit 4 Start Selection & Graduation Day at Kinepolis Kirchberg. This year, 20 start-ups from ICT, healthtech and space were selected for participation.