Plenary Formal Session 2021

Important! Due to the limited number of places due to health restrictions, the morning and afternoon Public Sessions will only be accessible face-to-face to members of the Academy, recipients of Awards or Medals and guests.

However, you will be able to attend these two events remotely. To do this, please complete the registration form at the bottom of the page in order to receive the login information the day before the event.

10:00 – Public session (Broadcast live from the Salle Garonne)

Acceptance speeches

Lionel de la SAYETTE, former Senior Advisor to the Chairman and CEO of Dassault Aviation, AAE fellow, elected on 21 June 2019, on:

“CARDINAL PROGRESSION OF ENGINEERS”

Paul WEISSENBERG, former Deputy Director General of DG/GROW, European Commission, member of the Space Advisory Committee of the European External Action Service (EEAS) of the European Union, AAE fellow, elected on 21 June 2019, on:

“The European Union of aeronautics, space and defence”

11:00 – Presentation of the new Correspondents

PAHLKE Klausdieter
PLANTIN DE HUGUES Philippe
ROSSOW Cord-Christian
SAINJON Bruno
SCIPPA Sergio
TEJEDOR Patrick

14:00 – Plenary Formal Session (Broadcast live from the Salle des Illustres)

14:00 – Opening of the session

by Michel WACHENHEIM, president of the Air & Space Academy
and welcoming speech by Jean-Claude DARDELET, Deputy Mayor of Toulouse, Vice-President of Toulouse Métropole

Tributes to

• to Jean-Claude HUSSON, honorary member, former Chairman and CEO of Alcatel Space, who passed away on 28 April 2021.
• to Bernard ZIEGLER, honorary member, former Technical Director of Airbus Industrie, who passed away on 4 May 2021.
• to Claude TERRAZZONI,honorary member, Honorary President of the CCI of Toulouse, President of the Union of French Airports, who passed away on 27 October 2021.

14:45 – Presentation of the new Board

14:50 – Appointments of the DGLR

Philippe Couillard and Alain Garcia are nominated as Honorary Fellows.

15:05 – Introduction by their sponsor of newly elected members

Foreign associate member
MENOU Abdellah

16:30 – Break

16:45 – Presentation of the Vermeil medal

• To Rafal MODRZEWSKI and Pekka LAURILA LAURILA in recognition of their personal achievement, as co-founders and respectively as CSO and CEO of the company ICEYE, which has achieved rapid success with full appreciation from institutional services and full recognition among qualified space industry professionals.

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17:00 – Presentation of the medals of the Academy

• toMarius BEBESEL for his leadership of the CITYAIRBUS programme and his role in managing this technologically innovative concept for a new mode of air transport.
• to Jeroen ROTTEVEEL in recognition of his personal achievement as co-founder and current CEO of ISISPACE, which has become one of Europe’s market leaders in the design, development, launch and operation of nano-satellites/CubeSats

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17h30 – Presentation of the Master II Thesis Prize

• It is awarded to Priscille PILLET DUGA for the excellent quality of her work on :

« ACNUSA and administrative sanctions for airlines ».

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17:45 – Presentation of the Grand Prize

• It is awarded to René FOURNIER (present in videoconference), for his passion for aviation and for having excelled in the design and construction of a long series of light aircraft bearing his name.

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18:15 – Cocktailoffered by the City of Toulouse