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From 24 to 28 June 2019 the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) organizes the 111th OGC Technical Committee hosted by SADL, the Spatial Applications Division of KU Leuven, and supported by Hexagon, Informatie Vlaanderen and Merkator. in parallel SADL, the EO4GEO scientific and technical coordinator, organizes the Earth Observation Summit supported by EO4GEO, OGC, Hexagon, Informatie Vlaanderen and Merkator. The summit, that will take place from 25 to 27 June 2019 in Leuven, is dedicated to three subjects closely related to the skills development and capacity building in the EO/GI sector and Copernicus User Uptake.  Tue 25 June - Future trends [...]

NEREUS,  Mercator Ocean International  and the Azores Regional Government organize the workshop “Copernicus Marine for Outermost and Maritime Regions” on June 6-7 2019 in Horta City (Faial Island, Azores). An important element of the workshop is training, education, accessing and better understanding needs of outermost and maritime regions. The event is organized in two parts: the first day will focus on the challenges and expectations of public authorities on the potential of Copernicus for maritime authorities, in presence and with the advice of Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service experts; the second day will be dedicated to a thematic hands-on technical [...]

EO4GEO will be at the ESA Living Planet Symposium 2019! These conferences  are among the biggest Earth Observation events in the world: this year, the event will be held in Milan on 13-17 May 2019 at MiCo - Milano Congressi and will also focus on Earth Observation's role in creating a resilient society, able to reply to forthcoming environmental challenges. EO4GEO will organize a side event ("Towards an innovative skills strategy for EO/GI sector"), planned as a consultation meeting with experts in the field of Earth Observation. This will be a great opportunity to discuss and enrich the concept in the developing Body of [...]

AGILE is the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories in Europe. Counting more than 80 members, it organizes workshops and conferences in the geographical field. The 22nd AGILE Conference will be held in Limassol, Cyprus, on 17-20 June 2019. For all the information about the workshops, visit the website. Registrations are open now at this link.

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. […]