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The Moon Village Association (MVA) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) based in Vienna. Its goal is the creation of a permanent global informal forum for stakeholders like governments, industry, academia and the public interested in the development of the Moon Village. The MVA has several hundreds of members from 33 countries and many institutional members from industry and academy.

The Moon Village is a concept of sustainable exploration and development of the Moon, supported by Jan Wörner, Director General of the European Space Agency. According to Scientific American, the project is now officially organized by the MVA, to which Wörner is an Advisor.

The MVA held its first workshop, co-organized with the International Space University in Strasbourg, France, on November 19–21, 2017. Representatives of space agencies, industry, universities, scientists and artists took part in the meeting and discussed concrete aspects of implementing the Moon Village.

"There is tremendous interest in and support for future lunar exploration, development and human presence," said MVA President Giuseppe Reibaldi. "The Moon Village concept is a powerful tool with which to organize coordination, cooperation and future planning vis-à-vis a broad range of potential lunar missions and markets." Reibaldi started the Moon Village to help ensure that all people of the world would benefit from lunar explorations and to help define an international code of conduct that regulates the use of space resources. “The logical place for this is the United Nations, but it’s a complex organization and it’s difficult to achieve results in the short term.” Reibaldi told Mercury in an interview that outlines MVA's history and plans. "That’s why I pushed for the creation of this." The public is a major stakeholder, expected to play an active role in the Moon Village definition.

“We see ourselves as almost like the Aerospace Industries Association in the U.S.,” said MVA Vice President John Mankins. “We’re hoping to be a forum and a venue where the new space startups, major companies and major ongoing space agency programs can gather and coordinate various aspects of the moon vision.”

In June 2018 the MVA hosted a side event of the UNISPACE+50 Conference in Vienna, and released a promotional video.

The second International Moon Village Workshop & Symposium, organized in cooperation with the University of Southern California (USC) and the National Space Society (NSS) took place at/near the USC campus on November 04-05, 2018, immediately following the NSS Space Settlement Summit.

“We found that, in order to implement the vision of the Moon Village, you need an organization that can create a permanent platform,” said Reibaldi in a Space News interview. “We have created the association to be a forum to advance the development of the Moon Village.” In a CGTN interview, Reibaldi praised Chang'e 4's soft landing on the far side of the Moon, and emphasized that the MVA considers global cooperation and the participation of the public as key factors for future developments.

The MVA has issued a set Moon Village Principles, which represent a general consensus point-of-view of the Moon Village Association but are strictly non-binding.