It also led him to propose in 2014 the International Space Station as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize; however, the geopolitical context (situation in Ukraine) at that time were not beneficial for this proposal. Recent emphases of Peeters includes consulting of governments such as the Baltic States (from 2011 onwards), Luxembourg (2017), South-Australia (2017) and Oman as well as assisting young space entrepreneurs in business plan development and start-up activities. He is working together closely with the local authorities to promote space activities in Alsace and to transfer part of ISU as a space incubator in Alsace. In 2017 he was also involved in discussions in Ireland on the possible establishment of an Irish Space Agency Awards Full Member (Academician) of the International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) - Youri Gagarin Medal nr.186 in the year 2000; NASA Group Achievement Award Knight in Order of Merit (Légion d'Honneur) in France; Selected publications Peeters, W.A., The appropriate use of contract types in development contracts, Ph.D. thesis, also published as ESA-STR-222, Oct. 1987. Peeters, W.A. and in ‘t Veld, J., The Use of Alternate Contract Types in Europe as Protection Against Overruns. National Contracts Management Journal, 23(1), pp. 23–34, 1989. Peeters, W. Space Marketing (in Chinese) (Caphbook, Beijing, 2004) . 376 p. Peeters W. ISS as a Nobel Prize Nominee? Why not? SpaceNews 25(7) (2014), p. 19, Peeters, W. and Madauss B. A proposed strategy against Cost Overruns in the space sector : the 5C approach. Journal of Space Policy 24(2), May 2008, pp. 80–89. Peeters, W. Space Science: A cradle for philosophers, Astropolitics, 10:27–38, 2012 Peeters, W. et al., Private Human Access to Space, Vol.1 Suborbital Flights, June 2014, IAA report SG 3.9, . Peeters, W., Is New Space Lifting Off? Prospective Stratégique, 45 (2016), pp. 60–65 Peeters, W. Towards a definition of New Space? The entrepreneurial perspective. New Space, 6(3) (2018), pp. 187–190. References External links IAF biography ISU biography 1950 births Living people Belgian economists Delft University of Technology alumni Engineers from Antwerp Recipients of the Legion of Honour 20th-century Belgian engineers 21st-century Belgian engineers