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The Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and the Republic of Poland, represented by the Minister of Entrepreneurship and Technology, Jadwiga Emilewicz, signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to start bilateral cooperation on space activities with particular focus on the exploration and utilization of space resources.

The Government of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, represented by the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and the Czech Republic, represented by the Minister of Transport, Dan Ťok, signed a memorandum of understanding on a cooperation in the frame of space resources exploration and utilization.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, announced today the implementation in Luxembourg of three companies originating from the US and specialized in space.

Etienne Schneider, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy of Luxembourg, announced today the partnership between LuxTrust S.A. and Tecnoinvestimenti Group, active in Digital Trust, Credit Information & Management and Innovation & Marketing Services.

A consortium of three Luxembourg-based companies lead by OQ TECHNOLOGY will develop, build and perform a demonstration in orbit of an innovative approach for satellite-based Internet-of-Things (IoT).

The Luxembourg Space Agency (LSA) officially launched operations today with the goal of promoting the further economic development of the Grand Duchy’s space industry by attracting businesses, developing human resources, providing innovative financial solutions and supporting educational and research infrastructure.

The Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider will officially launch the Luxembourg Space Agency. The Livestream has ended. The VOD of the stream will be available shortly.

Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider, and Secretary General and Executive Head of the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR), Marc Schiltz, signed an agreement to develop a program to support research for the commercial space industry in Luxembourg.

For the public celebration of the birthday of H.R.H. the Grand Duke, members of the Grand Duke's family and the government will attend the festivities organised in Esch-sur-Alzette, Larochette and Luxembourg City on 22 and 23 June 2018.

On May 29, 2018, the Secretary of State for the Economy, Francine Closener has launched Creativecluster.lu, a digital collaboration platform of the Creative Industries Cluster, in the presence of Marc Lis and Jan Glas, respectively cluster manager and president of the "Luxembourg Creative Industries Cluster".

On Monday, May 14th 2018, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider met with Guardian Industries' President and CEO, Ronald D. Vaupel, and the President and CEO of Guardian Glass, Kevin Baird, at Guardian World Headquarters in Auburn Hills, Michigan, USA.

Nicolas Schmit and Francine Closener, joined by Isabelle Schlesser, present the Luxembourg Digital Skills Bridge programme, which aims to support companies, and their employees, whose activity will be radically transformed by major technological changes towards a new organisation, new functions and new jobs.

Luxembourg became the first foreign nation to break ground for its pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai on Sunday 29 April 2018, when Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy, Étienne Schneider held an official ground-breaking ceremony on the site of the next World Expo in Dubai.

Amazon is the 2018 recipient of the Luxembourg-American Business Award that will be celebrated on May 15th, 2018 during a ceremony organized by the Luxembourg American Chamber of Commerce (LACC) that was founded in 1991 to stimulate and promote economic development, trade and investment, between North America and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Head of Space Affairs at the Ministry of the Economy, Marc Serres, has been appointed Vice-Chairman of the ESA Council for the remaining mandate of the current chairship until 30 June 2019. As the first Vice-Chairman of the ESA Council from Luxembourg, he replaces Otylia Trzaskalska-Stroińska, Deputy Director, Innovation Department at the Ministry of the Development of the Republic of Poland.