The Italian Embassy in Oslo today hosted the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding in the framework of the project
Solaris, concerning the observation of solar phenomena and space meteorology.
Solaris is a scientific and technological project between Italian research bodies and universities with the aim of developing an intelligent, high-frequency radio monitoring system of solar phenomena, based on single-dish imaging techniques. The MoU aims to create two new observation points near Tromsø, in northern Norway, and in the Arctic archipelago of the Svalbard Islands, which will be added to the Solaris radio telescopes already present in Antarctica.
The signing ceremony was held at the Residence of Ambassador Stefano Nicoletti and was attended by all the project partners, namely Inaf and the University of Milan on the Italian side and the University of Oslo, the Geophysical Observatory of the University of Tromsø and the University Centre of Svalbard on the Norwegian side. Also present at the ceremony were three representatives of Nosa, the Norwegian Space Agency, testifying to the attention paid by the local scientific authorities to new and fruitful collaborations with Italy.
"I was pleased to accept the request of the parties to the MoU to host the signing ceremony of this important new piece in the sphere of scientific and space relations between Italy and Norway," commented Ambassador Stefano Nicoletti. "In recent times we have witnessed a consolidation of existing collaborations between our two countries and the opening of significant new channels of dialogue in the space field. This was witnessed by the mission of Italian companies and organisations in the sector to Norway last June, and the very recent visit of the Minister for Enterprise and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, and the Deputy Foreign Minister, Edmondo Cirielli, to the Andøya Island spaceport in the north of the country, a strategic infrastructure being completed to promote autonomous European access to space".
"La Statale is proud to be at Norway's side for this important Memorandum of Understanding
on solar phenomena and space meteorology. These are topics developed at a high level by our
Department of Physics: this agreement confirms the research intensive nature of our research and its international scope,' commented the Rector of the University of Milan, Marina Brambilla.
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