1.2 Objectives To launch the venue with a highly publicized "Grand Opening" event.
Satellite altimeters have been launched with the objective to monitor changes in sea level and glacial ice sheet topography.
More recently the 1000 Genomes Project (www.1000genomes.org), an international research effort to establish by far the most detailed catalogue of human genetic variation was launched in January 2008 with the objective to sequence the genomes of at least one thousand anonymous participants from a number of different ethnic groups.
The Swarm mission, which consists of three identical satellites, was launched on November 2013 by the European Space Agency (ESA) with the objective to perform the best-ever survey of the geomagnetic and electric fields surrounding the Earth (Friis-Christensen et al. 2006).
With the objective to develop closer relations with its neighbours following the 2004 enlargement, the EU launched the European Neighbourhood Policy European Commissionn, 2003), which further contributed to the transfer of the European "best practices" in the field of migration management.
In November 2013 the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the three Swarm satellites, named Alpha, Bravo, and Charlie, with the objective to provide the best ever survey of the geomagnetic field and its temporal evolution (Friis-Christensen et al. 2006).
In 2010, the Public Health Department of the canton of Vaud (Switzerland) launched a regional diabetes programme entitled "Programme cantonal Diabète" (PcD), with the objectives to both decrease the incidence of diabetes and improve care for patients with diabetes.
Our objective is to launch up to fifteen startups, which will commercialize the promising inventions in this challenge.
The High Command decided to launch "Operation Larlar" with the objective of taking Lydda, Ramle, Latrun and Ramallah and relieving the threat on Tel Aviv on a side and West Jerusalem on the other.
On 16 December 1944, a large German offensive was launched in the Ardennes, with the German objective to split British and American forces apart and capture the port of Antwerp, an important logistical base for the Allies.
