The CASSINI initiative raised questions among the national delegations about its concrete implementation and its translation into different programmes, during the meeting of the EU Council’s Working Party on Space last Tuesday 19 October.
The European Commission came that day to give details on the CASSINI initiative, presented a year ago (see EUROPE B12443A7). It has put forward plans to organise ‘hackathons’ (twice a year in 10 cities each time) and ‘CASSINI prizes’ to develop...