Itacham holds 3-day event for Italian Space Day

Itacham holds 3-day event for Italian Space Day

The past three days ItaCham (Italian Business Chamber in Cambodia) organized for the first time ever in Cambodia the Italian Space Day (Giornata Nazionale dello Spazio).This was the first time that this event was organized in Cambodia. The event was thought as 3-days long event, composed by an expo in the main hall of CamEd Business School, showcasing Khmer craftsmanship related to Khmer Apsaras, and Space Apsara related paintings, along with video materials on Italy in Space, in-kind provided by the Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (Italian Space Agency).


The panel on day 2, was designed for having four themes. The first one setting the stage presented the investment ecosystem in the country, and what has been done so far in terms of Space sector. This part involved ๐‡.๐„. ๐‹๐จ๐ซ ๐“๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐‚๐ก๐š๐ง๐ฌ๐จ๐ฉ๐ก๐ž๐š๐ค, from the ๐‚๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐œ๐ข๐ฅ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฏ๐ž๐ฅ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š and ๐Œ๐ซ๐ฌ. ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐š๐ญ ๐Œ๐จ๐ซ๐จ๐ค๐จ๐ญ from the ๐’๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ž๐ฉ๐š๐ซ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐Œ๐ข๐ง๐ข๐ฌ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐“๐ž๐ฅ๐ž๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐œ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.

Theme two, focused on applications, and included as speakers ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐จ ๐๐š๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข from ๐Œ๐„๐„๐Ž ๐’.๐ซ.๐ฅ, ๐…๐š๐›๐ข๐จ ๐€. ๐‚๐š๐ซ๐๐š๐ง๐ข from ๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐’.๐ซ.๐ฅ, and ๐’๐ž๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฅ๐ข๐๐ž๐ญ ๐˜๐ž๐š๐ง from the ๐’๐ข๐ง๐ ๐š๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ž-๐„๐“๐‡ ๐‚๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ซ๐ž, speaking about different applications that are currently benefitting Italy, and Singapore, and that could be relevant to the Cambodian context.



Theme three, focused more on research, academia and collaboration, and saw Professors ๐’๐ญ๐ž๐Ÿ๐š๐ง๐จ ๐’๐ž๐ซ๐ข๐š๐ง๐ข and ๐€๐ง๐ง๐š ๐†๐ซ๐ž๐ ๐จ๐ซ๐ข๐จ from the ๐”๐ง๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ซ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ž, and Prof. ๐’๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ญ ๐’๐ซ๐š๐ง๐  from ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐“๐ž๐œ๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ฒ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š speaking about respectively the RISE Project, in collaboration with the ๐„๐ฎ๐ซ๐จ๐ฉ๐ž๐š๐ง ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐œ๐ฒ and past and on-going activities related to the space sector in Cambodia, highlighting lessons learned and possible future collaborations.Finally, the session was wrapped out by ๐€๐ง๐ข๐ฅ๐ค๐ฎ๐ฆ๐š๐ซ ๐ƒ๐š๐ฏ๐ž who spoke about Space Economy, lesson learned, and tips for a developing country like Cambodia, on how to possible initiate a domestic space economy.

ItaCham wants to express gratitude to all the supporters of the events, included CamEd and its President, Casey Barnett, along with ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐„๐'๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ž๐š๐ฆ, ๐Š๐ก๐ž๐ฆ๐š๐ซ๐š ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฒ๐œ๐ก๐š๐ง ๐”๐ง๐  for the support in the background, the sponsors ๐๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ฌ, ๐’.๐ซ.๐ฅ., and in-kind sponsors ๐€๐ ๐ž๐ง๐ณ๐ข๐š ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐ณ๐ข๐š๐ฅ๐ž ๐ˆ๐ญ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐š๐ง๐š (๐€๐’๐ˆ), ๐๐จ๐ง๐œ๐š๐Ÿ๐ž (๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š) ๐‹๐ญ๐. , ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ค๐จ๐ซ ๐€๐ซ๐ญ ๐†๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ž๐ซ๐ฒ, and the attendees, included, ๐€๐ง๐๐ซ๐ž๐ฒ ๐Š๐ฎ๐ณ๐ข๐ง, ๐Š๐ข๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐  ๐Š๐ก๐ฎ๐ง, ๐Œ๐š๐ญ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฐ ๐€๐ฅ๐ž๐ฑ๐š๐ง๐๐ž๐ซ ๐๐จ๐œ๐จ๐œ๐ค, ๐‘๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐š ๐‡๐ข๐ฆ, ๐‡.๐„. ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ง ๐’๐š๐ฆ๐ง๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฒ๐ฆ๐จ๐ง๐ฒ, ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ก๐จ๐ง๐  ๐“๐š๐ข๐ง๐ , ๐‡๐š๐ซ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐–๐จ๐ง๐ , ๐’๐ข๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฒ๐ฆ๐ž๐ฒ ๐๐ก๐š๐ง, ๐š๐ง๐ ๐๐ซ๐จ๐ก๐ข๐ฆ ๐“๐š๐ฆ, ๐˜๐จ๐ง๐  ๐€๐ง๐ง ๐•๐Ž๐„๐”๐‘๐, ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ, ๐๐Ÿ๐ ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š, ๐‚๐š๐ฆ๐›๐จ๐๐ข๐š ๐ˆ๐ง๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฆ๐ž๐ง๐ญ ๐‘๐ž๐ฏ๐ข๐ž๐ฐ.

A final thanks to ๐’๐ข๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ข๐š ๐‚๐ข๐œ๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ž๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ข and Agenzia Spaziale Italiana for providing support and all the material for the corner exposition, that will last until today. Of course together with ๐๐ž๐ซ๐ง๐š๐ซ๐ ๐“๐ž๐จ ๐‚๐ก๐ž๐ง๐  ๐‡๐š๐ง and Angkor Art Gallery for the paintings with theme "๐“๐ก๐ž ๐’๐ฉ๐š๐œ๐ž ๐€๐ฉ๐ฌ๐š๐ซ๐š". EuroCham Cambodia | Italian Cambodian Arts#ItaCham #Italy #Cambodia #GiornataDelloSpazioCambodia