Formal sitting 2025

28 November 2025
14 h 00 min | 19 h 00 min

Town Hall (Illustres room)
Place du Capitole - 31000 - Toulouse - (France)

2:00 pm – Opening of the meeting by Chairman Bruno Stoufflet

2.05pm – Presentation of the Board

14:15 – Welcome and introduction of new members

Honorary members

  • BUSSEREAU Dominique
  • CALLEJA Y CRESPO Daniel

Fellows

  • BONDIOU Anne
  • BRU Pierre
  • DUDOK DE WIT Thierry
  • FENECH Hector
  • GARAVAGLIA Roberto
  • GODEL Claude
  • HAIDAR Riad
  • KOFFI Philippe
  • SOULERES Eric
  • VALLETTE D’OSIA Bertrand

Foreign Associate Members

  • BENHIMA Driss
  • OUEDRAOGO Sékou
  • RUEL Pierre
  • TAY Tiang Guan

15h30 – Break

15h45 – Conference :

  • 60 years of Airbus: the A320 family is a success!
    by Georges Ville, former Deputy Director of Aerospatiale’s Aircraft Division, member and former Chairman of AAE

16:45 – Presentation of the Medals of the Academy

  • Philippe LAUDET, for his outstanding contribution to the development of the SEIS precision seismometer instrument for the InSight Mars mission.
  • Christel SEGUIN, for her major contribution to the creation of a “DVR” digital analysis tool for a UAV in preparation for the certification process for flight authorization.
  • Andréa CIABRINI, Alain DELAVET and Setareh TAHERI, for their innovative work in the icing certification testing process for the Airbus H175B helicopter.

5:30 p.m. – Presentation of the Vermeil Medal

  • Armand JACOB, Robert LIGNEE and Fabrice VILLAUME, in honor of their outstanding contributions to the development of the ROPS system for airliner landing gear and safety enhancement

17h45 – Presentation of the Master II Dissertation Prize

  • Antonia KARDAMAKI for her excellent work on “Distributed Satellite Systems for Space Situational Awareness: Legal Challenges and Incentives in the International and EU Context”.

18h00- Video of the Grand Prix 2025 award ceremony

  • Awarded on November 14th at ESA in Paris to Josef ASCHBACHER and Valère MOUTARLIER, for the European Union’s GMES Copernicus Program.

18:30 – Cocktail reception hosted by Toulouse City Hall