Debra J. Rahn
Headquarters, Washington, D.C.                   January 30, 1990
(Phone:  202/453-8455)                                10 A.M. EST


RELEASE:  90-16

INTERNATIONAL SPACE YEAR EDUCATION CONF. TO BE HELD IN FRANCE


     The Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), the French 
space agency will host an International Space Year (ISY) 
Education and Applications conference in Deauville, France, Feb. 
12-15.  The conference was organized in cooperation with NASA.

     More than 120 education and training experts from around the 
world will attend the conference, which is being organized under 
the umbrella of the Space Agency Forum on ISY (SAFISY).  
Twenty-five national space agencies or equivalent bodies belong 
to SAFISY.

     SAFISY was established at a conference hosted by NASA in 
l988, following a proposal by Congress for an International Space 
Year in l992 and its endorsement by the White House.

     Deauville conference delegates will develop proposals for 
projects for the ISY in 1992 in the areas of education and 
applications.  These proposals will be discussed at a SAFISY 
senior officials meeting in Japan next spring.

    The Deauville conference also will establish an Education and 
Applications panel of experts that will advise SAFISY on a 
regular basis.  Professor Jacques-Louis Lions, President of CNES, 
will serve as Chairman of the Deauville conference.

    The conference will have two major programmatic themes:

--"Remote Sensing Training Applications" theme will focus on 
training projects of interest for developing nations in the areas 
of vegetation resources, natural hazards and urban and 
environmental planning.

--"Space and Education" theme will focus on educational 
initiatives in the areas of Earth observation, space science and 
space communications.
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     Earlier this year, SAFISY adopted 10 "mission to planet 
Earth" projects recommended by an Earth Science and Technology 
panel of experts established at a conference hosted by the 
British National Space Center.  Those projects address the 
greenhouse effect, ozone depletion, deforestation and related 
environmental issues, as well as development of a Gobal Change 
Encyclopedia.

    A third SAFISY experts panel, for space science, is being 
organized by the Committee on Space Research of the International 
Council of Scientific Unions.

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(This news story is being simultaneously released with CNES)




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