Seville, (EFE).- Some forty officials from the Ministries of Defense and Science and Innovation will be the first to imminently join the staff of the Spanish Space Agency, based in Seville, and there will be up to 75 workers with a public offer of employment.
This announcement was made by the mayor of Seville, Antonio Muñoz, after holding a preparatory meeting for the start of the Spanish space agency after the approval of its statutes on Tuesday and in which, among others, the commissioner for the aerospace PERTE, Miguel Belló, on behalf of the Ministry of Science and who will provisionally chair the Spanish space agency, and on behalf of the Ministry of Defence, Major General José Luis Ortiz Cañavate.
The forty officials will come mainly from the Ministries of Science and Innovation and Defense and to complete the staff, which is initially considered to be around 75 people, a public job offer will be called, according to the mayor, who has not specified the profiles until The organization chart of the Spanish space agency is not known.
Once the statutes have been approved, the governing council, which is the governing body of said agency and which will be made up of seventeen members of ministries and autonomous bodies and in which the city council will have a voice but no vote, will meet approximately in a month in Seville, Muñoz has advanced.
Speed in the project
Before that meeting, the representatives must be appointed to said governing council, indicated the mayor, who celebrated that “a giant step has been taken today” with the approval of the statutes.
In this commitment, Seville has submitted to the call to host an incubator for companies in the aerospace sector in the Naves de San Jerónimo, a building adjacent to the CREA building that will house the headquarters of the Spanish space agency, the mayor recalled.
That decision will be made within approximately one month, which is managed by the CEDETI of the Ministry of Defense and is linked to the European Space Agency, which provides its support to companies to promote the aerospace sector.
The mayor has expressed his satisfaction with the “speed” in the implementation of this project that started in December when the Government chose Seville to locate the headquarters of the Spanish Space Agency, which will be a reference body for all Spanish space policy and the one in charge of dialogue between the Spanish State and organizations such as NASA, the European Commission and other European space agencies.
In the meeting held today in the CREA building, which will house the headquarters of the Spanish space agency, they addressed operational issues regarding the transfer of companies that are in this building and its occupation by officials of the new agency, as well as the signage from the airport. EFE