Events

26 October 2018. Climathon is a global movement dedicated to solving city climate challenges. Happening simultaneously around the world on 26 October and over the course of 24 hours, this event is inspired by the world of hackathons. Participants are invited to collaborate on imagining innovative solutions to specific climate-related challenges. Almost 70 cities worldwide are accepting registrations. Click here to see all participating cities and get involved! Participation is open to entrepreneurs, students, policymakers as well as any individual interested in actively contributing to fight climate change in their city. More information Register to the Climathon 2018 [...]

Patras (Greece), 4th December 2018. The EO4GEO project is happy to announce its second Workshop and Project meeting to be held in Patras, Greece, from December 4th until 6th. The meeting will be hosted by project partner UPAT The objective of the workshop is to present and discuss the observed gaps and mismatch between the GI and EO  education and training offered by academic institutions and VET providers and the knowledge, skills and competencies required by the market, and in particular the downstream services market. In the gap and mismatch analysis, technological and societal trends are taken into account. Therefore, [...]

INSPIRE Conference workshops, Antwerp (Belgium), 18-21 September 2018. The EO4GEO Consortium is pleased to invite all the participants to the Conference at the “Training and education in GI and EO sectors” workshop scheduled on Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 14:00. The aim of the workshop is to raise awareness on the activities and results of two cutting edge projects, giCASES and EO4GEO. […]

Baveno+20: From GMES to Copernicus and Beyond is a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Baveno Manifesto – the birth of the Copernicus Programme. We will look back to see the road travelled – the Copernicus story and achievements, and we’ll look into the future of the Programme – how Copernicus takes part in the future of environmental protection, the EU economy and safety & security of the EU citizens. […]

Take action on climate change through entrepreneurship Join the Climate-KIC InnoSpace Journey: summer school for climate innovation in partnership with Copernicus using Earth Observations and GIS data. The Journey brings together students and professionals from all over the world. […]

Space applications – 05/04/2018Awarding outstanding Earth Observation ideas and applications to tackle challenges faced by business and society, the Copernicus Masters 2018 competition is now open for submissions.The deadline for submission is 30 June 2018. […]

Castellón (Spain), 30 May 2018. The EO4GEO project is happy to announce its Workshop and Project meeting to be held in Castellón de la Plana, Spain, from May 30th until June 1st. The meeting will be hosted by project partner Universitat Jaume I (UJI), GEOTEC Research group. The project, which is now in its first steps (Preparing the space/geospatial sectors skills strategy), intends to identify gaps and shortages between GI and EO training offer. This workshop, the first of a series that will take place every 6-months, will discuss the (intermediate) findings of the demand survey and will provide an [...]

The EO4GEO kick-off meeting took place on January 16th to 17th 2018 and was hosted by Italian Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) and led by the GISIG-international group in Milan, Italy. At least 60 participants had the opportunity to discuss the first strategic and practical actions of the project with several partners involved in the 10 work packages and to present the work objectives and outlines for each work package. On the first day, after the Copernicus overview presented by Emanuele Barreca from DG GROW, the Erasmus+ Blueprint Skills by Milva Carbonaro and the ESA (education) activities by Francesco Sarti. [...]