Erops Savienai bērs sala kosmos program. Tas pamati ģēr taska kosmos ir rīks atiestībai uz zems. Es pēju uzniemēj dar bija bēju ekonom ksi zauks neun, efektivitāt sveicināšnēju dažādas no zresu visāt pasaules. Šajās denās rigā visos Erops Savienai būs kosmos programas, adienturš delgācijuntās izpīl direktors, roti rigāda kosta. Vieni šuri tasam aiznāšu zainterviju. – Good morning! – Good morning! Nesnesi, ka jau viena, vei, vari būs. Viena, ka mērīdās, ka mērīdās, ka mērīdās, ka jau viena, vei, vari apiņu, esu programas, ka esu spēs, ka esu toru, ka esu toru, ka esu toru, ka esu toru, ka esu toru. – What is space good for? – First of all, thank you very much for the invitation. Thank you for having me this morning. I mean, space is today in everyday's life. It's in our daily life. We use space when we navigate, we use space when we communicate, we use space when we watch the weather forecast, for example. So space is really in our lives. In the use space program, our focus is really the space that adds value to the people's life, that adds value to our society, as well to our security, certainly. And we are looking at things such as navigation, with a Galileo program, the European Global Navigation Satellite System, providing positioning capabilities worldwide. We are looking at Earth observation, so our eyes on Earth, how do we monitor, how do we evaluate the evolution of our Earth, and more and more, we are also looking at telecommunications. So basically, things that then people use in their everyday life. And that is, actually, we all use mobile phones, and we watch television, we use the navigation systems, of course. And it means that we are using the space technologies, but if we speak about Latvia, about our possibilities, about our ambitions, we are small country, but our ambitions are there. So how do you describe? What are the Latvians' opportunities? And where should we look for? First of all, certainly, as EU citizens, we are all using space every day. You mentioned in your mobile phone, right now about 50% of the apps that you have in your mobile phone, they are using space data one way or the other. So you really see how much of space there is in all the actions that we take every day. And if we look at the member states, and if we certainly, if we look at the completely Latvia, we are seeing more and more applications. We are seeing companies that participate not only in the development of the technologies, to build the satellites, to build the ground segments, but very, very importantly, we are seeing companies that want to use space data and space services in order to bring benefits to many different sectors, certainly very, very important here in the Latvian reality things, such as agriculture, forestry, disaster management. We do have companies that are working with us, for example, in the development of more efficient buildings, digital twins of buildings. We are working with companies as well that are working on a wildlife monitoring and forestry management in EU-wide projects. So as you can see, everyone can benefit, and everyone can contribute to the EU space programme. Our viewers could be interesting to hear what it takes to work at European Union Agency for the space programme. Should you be a, I don't know, a space engineer, or what? It's a very good question. It sounds very complex when we talk about space. The reality is much simpler than that. First of all, you have to be a UNESCO. This is part of the rule of working in the European Union. The second thing is certainly you need to have value. If I look at our stuff, we have, of course, specialists. We have engineers. We have aerospace specialist telecom specialists, etc. But we also have lawyers. We have administrators. We have economists. And when we want to bring space to the people, and when we want to bring space to the different sectors, be to road transport, to rail, to agriculture, forestry, banking and finance, etc. We also need specialists from those target areas, people that understand how the banking industry, how the insurance industry, for example, can benefit from space, and the best people are certainly the specialists in those areas. Do you know if there are some advance, all are they working in the agency, or maybe if somebody watching us right now is thinking about applying to the agency, what should I do? Certainly, we want people to apply, and by the way, part of my mission here for this today is also to make the agency more known, more known for stuff applicants. We would like to have stuff applicants more and more also from Latvia, but also our projects, our funding opportunities, how Latvia and industry, small companies, large companies, universities can benefit and can contribute to the research that we do. Practice opportunities also for students, for example? Certainly, we welcome many students, we do have a very wide training-ship program, typically for people that are closer to the end of their studies, or in the beginning of the professional career, and it is a very good opportunity on the one hand to get to know how the European Union works, what is the European Union, all the machine, etc. but also to have very practical contact with daily life. What are the big advice for Latvia and entrepreneurs, companies, which have the ambitions to do something in the space program? Certainly, the first thing, entrepreneurs start up, they play a fundamental role. They bring agility, they bring the ability to innovate, so this is really crucial, this is indeed a key. Advises to be given. Certainly, first and foremost, don't lose the impetus, don't lose the innovation capability. Second, look for opportunities. We have created in the EU, related to space, a very large program is called Cassini. With Cassini, we are fostering, we are financing ideas, we are helping entrepreneurs to get in contact with investors, with people that want to grow businesses, so look for those opportunities. There is really a one-stop shop of capabilities on how to develop your business. In which industries companies can participate? Everyone that can use space data and that can use space services, so we are really talking from companies from very diverse sectors. One of the key priorities that we have is to bring what we call space outside the bubble. It's outside our little community of space experts, because as I said, and as I mentioned in the beginning, space is really everywhere. Everyone is using and is in contact with space. In your opinion, what are the most important challenges in the future for the space agency? For our agency, there are indeed challenges. The ambitions of the European Union in space are growing and are growing continuously, certainly by the benefit that space provides to the implementation of the Green Deal, also the benefits for digitalisation. For our sovereignty as a union, for our security, for our well-being as a society, so all these post-challenges and certainly to deliver, but I have a team that is very, very much motivating and that is very much focusing on delivering value for EU citizens. I have a question more on philosophical side, most probably explorations, either space or others, there are always consequences. Sometimes the consequences can be grave once. We saw it with Titan, with explorations of Titanic, but still, not nonetheless of the risks. People, they have the surge, they are looking for new explorations, for reaching new horizons. Why? I really like that. Yes, so first disclaimer, as an agency, we do not, we are not involved in science and exploration. Our focus is really the navigation, the telecom earth observation, but also space situation and all awareness. Now, exploration plays a fundamental role because exploration first is a motivator. It is a way how we can motivate also new people to join the space domain. Everyone likes their astronauts, so people, children and newcomers to the domain are motivated by the domain of exploration. Exploration is about science as well and through space we discover many of the basic science that we need to know in order to understand how cheap works, how camera works, etc. It is really about doing the fundamental research that we need globally as a society. In the end, we are explorers, we have always been explorers, certainly our border will not stop and our earth will go beyond that. As we mentioned, the space is a tool for development on the earth. If we watch on the screen now, there is a big ferry coming in now in the rigour port, so they are using the space technologies. I'm very, very sure they are. So thank you very much for being with us this morning and thank you very much for explaining the space technologies and the importance here on earth and thank you for having us. Thank you very much. I hope so, and it's Cosmos, program, Sajentor, Syspio, director of the rigour, the cost shot at the Moms raid Panama.