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CANEUS 2002

The CANEUS workshop was a significant first step towards the creation of an international community of MNT developers for Aerospace applications. Hand-in-hand with the creation of an Aerospace MNT community, a second major goal was the development of a coordinated strategy for international investment in MNT development for Aerospace applications. CLS3 of Canada had the pivotal role, which it performed with tremendous skill, of bringing together researchers and practitioners from MNT and Aerospace organizations from across the world. The areas covered in the workshop were space, defense, aeronautics, geophysics and environmental control.

• The first CANEUS workshop had the following objectives, which were met with, a great deal of success:

Assemble technical experts and programmatic decision makers from Canada, USA, Europe and Asia Pacific regions.

Catalyze research and development collaborations between the participating countries.

Identify and discuss strategies for focused MNT investment for Aerospace Applications.

Recommended future policy actions:

Set up inter-governmental agreements that will serve as the basis for future collaborations and ensure the free flow of Aerospace MNT between participating countries.


Identify the areas of complementary, core expertise within each nation, which can be seamlessly integrated into the “technology pipeline” for Aerospace MNT.


Develop both a ground-based and space-based MNT reliability testing protocol that will benefit from the Space technology pipeline.


Implement low cost, rapid launch space testing opportunities that can advance Space MNT development far more rapidly than is currently the case. In this way, there is a dual benefit of realizing the Return-on-Investment (ROI) quicker as well as “building in” reliability and robustness into Space MNT at a relatively early stage of development.