Cains Sponsor International Space University Student
Since 2005 Cains have been supporting the International Space University (the ISU) by, amongst other things, providing sponsorship to one of the students each year.
This year the Cains’ prize of ¤5,000 was awarded to Natalie Bentz, a graduate of the University of Aberdeen specialising in space law, who has completed the Masters in Space Management Programme at the ISU this year. Natalie is a well-trained lawyer who expresses a clear wish to be more involved in commercial and business oriented issues. At present she is undertaking an internship with Frost & Sullivan in Paris.
Olesya Skirtach, a Russian lawyer working in the Cains corporate department, attended the graduation ceremony in Strasbourg on 31 August where she presented Natalie with the prize.
Olesya said: “The ISU brings to a wide audience the limitless commercial and scientific possibilities that lie beyond the confines of our planet. Never has the world seemed more vulnerable and never has the work of the ISU seemed more vital. Cains are delighted to support this excellent Programme.”
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Pictured: Left to right: Natalie Bentz, Professor Nikolai Tolyarenko Director of the Masters Programme and Olesya Skirtach.
Professor Walter Peeters, Dean, Vice-President of the ISU, Academic Affairs, said: “As far as further years are concerned, we seem to be able to recruit excellent lawyers and it would be a nice incentive if we could continue to award the Cains’ prize. Indeed, this can further strengthen the excellent relationship between the ISU and the Isle of Man, which is developing continuously, thanks to supporters like Cains.”
The ISU was founded in 1987. It provides graduate-level training to the future leaders of the emerging global space community at its central campus in Strasbourg, France, and at locations around the world. In its two-month Summer Session and one-year Masters programme, ISU offers its students a unique core curriculum covering the vast range of disciplines related to space, including space science, space engineering, space policy and law, business and management, and space and society. |
