The UN-SPIDER Regional Support Office (RSO) in Romania is domicile in the Romanian Space Agency (Romanian Space Agency, ROSA).  The cooperation agreement between ROSA and UNOOSA was signed on occasion of the 52nd COPUOS, 4 June 2009.

Established in 1991, by the Government Decision no. 923/ 20 Nov 1995, ROSA is an independent public institution.

The mission of the Agency:

• to coordinate the national space research and applications programs
• to promote space development
• to be the Government representative in the international space cooperation
• to develop specific project oriented research

ROSA is authorized to establish research and development centres oriented on specific objectives of the Romanian Space Programme.