| The national co-ordinating body of the space activities is the Romanian Space Agency (ROSA), established in 1991 and reorganized by a Government Decision in 1995 as an independent public institution under the auspices of the Ministry of Research and Technology (actually, the Ministry of Education and Research);.
The missions of ROSA are to promote and coordinate development and national efforts in the field, and, as a Government
representative, to promote international cooperation. In particular, ROSA is authorized to establish research and development
centres oriented on specific objectives of the Romanian Space Programme. ROSA is developing its own research and development
projects.
One of the ROSA´s main responsibilities is to coordinate and integrate the activities of the
national space research and development programme.In cooperation with the Science Council for Aeronautics and Space of
the Government's Advisory Board for Research and Development, the public financing body, ROSA coordinates projects towards:
basic space science, space structures, technologies, microgravity, communications, information, education, Earth observation
and remote sensing applications, life sciences and medicine. Since 2001, ROSA is the contract authority for the
National Aeronautics and Space Programme..Beginning with 2004, ROSA acts as the executive president of the Inter-ministerial
Group for Security Research. (Government Decision no. 1574/ 30 Sep 2004)
On behalf of the Government, ROSA is the national representative in the cooperative agreements with international
organizations, such as
European Space Agency (ESA) and Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), as well as bilateral governmental agreements.
Together with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, ROSA is representing Romania in the sessions of the United Nations Committee
on the Peaceful Use of Outer Space (COPUOS) and its Subcommittees.
The acting
President (since 2004) and Chief Executive Officer (since 1995) of ROSA and Director of the National Aeronautics
and Space Programme (since 2001) is Mr.
Marius-Ioan Piso, Ph.D. Prof. The Honor President is the Romanian cosmonaut Mr.
Dumitru Dorin Prunariu Ph.D. Eng. The Scientific President of ROSA is Mr. Virgiliu Niculae Constantinescu, PhD. Prof., Member of the Romanian Academy.
Address: str. Mendeleev nr.21-25, sector 1, 010362 Bucuresti Phone. +40-21-3168722, +40-21-3168723, Facsimile +40-21-3128804 Web:www.rosa.ro,
E-mail:
rosa_hq@rosa.ro
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