European Space Agency (DBA European Space Agency|Agence Spatiale Européenne)
European Program for Life and Physical Sciences and Applications in Space (ELIPS): The following contribution has been awarded under the European Space Agency (ESA) Contribution Program pursuant the Cooperation Agreement signed between the Government of Canada and the European Space Agency (ESA). The ELIPS Program allows Europe to capitalize on its investments into the ISS infrastructure and also to use independent mission platform assets in order to enable world leading contributions to progress in the areas of : Fundamental research, in both physical and life sciences; Applied Research, and industry driven Research and Development (R&D); Preparation of Human Exploration of space; Development of advanced technologies to support the optimum utilization of ISS and future space infrastructures; and Education.