Between 5 and 6 November 2024, as a GEO-Academy project partner, Eurisy attended GEO-Academy's General Assembly meeting in Lund, Sweden. General Assembly brough together all 12 project partners from 7 countries and presented a great opportunity for a discussion on the project's achievements so far and next steps.
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Between 7 and 12 July 2024, as a GEO-Academy project member, Eurisy attended the GEO-Academy Summer School 2024 in Marathon, Greece. The summer school focused on exchanging knowledge and enriching the participants’ understanding of site-specific problems linked to geospatial phenomena, such as population density, and flood susceptibility, as well as relevant methodologies, resources and geospatial tools.
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On 3 July 2024, as the SpaceSUITE project partner, Eurisy attended the 1st SpaceSUITE dissemination event entitled “Skills Intelligence in the Estonian Downstream Space Sector” in Tallinn, Estonia. The event introduced a comprehensive assessment of the existing skills and skills gaps in the space downstream sector, along with upcoming project activities.
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On 6 June 2024, Eurisy as a member of the SPACE4GEO Alliance represented the partnership at the Networking Event for Potential Pact for Skills Members. The event consisted of presentations and panel discussions, exploring opportunities, advantages and benefits for organisations from joining the Pact for Skills, which was launched in November 2020 by the European Commission (EC) as a shared engagement model for skills development in Europe aiming to maximise the impact of investing in upskilling and reskilling.
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Between 21 and 22 March 2024, Eurisy participated online in the 1st edition of the Pact for Skills Forum “Unlocking the skills potential across Europe”, organised by the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion (DG EMPL) of the European Commission, under the umbrella of Pact for Skills, one of the flagship actions of the European Skills Agenda. Eurisy’s participation follows its increasing activities and engagement in the education and skills in the downstream space sector.
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Eurisy, together with 27 partners, kicked off the new SpaceSUITE project in Genoa (IT) with partners from Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Netherlands, Portugal, Greece, Slovenia and Estonia from February 1st to 2nd, 2024. The meeting was hosted by the Geographical Information Systems International Group (GISIG).
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How can we use big data smartly to restore biodiversity? Five teams of experts, engineers, students and researchers pondered this question for 48 hours in the form of a Spatial Data for Biodiversity Hackathon held on 23-24 October 2023 at Ede, the Netherlands. The cooperation between Deltares, Eurisy, the Netherlands Space Office, Starthub and Wageningen University and Research allowed the teams to dive into the data for two uninterrupted days. The detective work not only yielded new insights about biodiversity in the Netherlands, but also demonstrated what role satellite imagery can play in this field.
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GEO-Academy, an Erasmus+ funded project to enhance teachers green, digital, and spatial competencies, kicked off at the Ellinogermaniki Agogi school in Athens, Greece from the 28th to the 29th September 2023. Over 36 months, GEO-Academy hopes to empower over 2,000 pre- and in-service teachers at primary and secondary level with the knowledge, skills, and resources needed to incorporate Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) Earth Observation (EO), Remote Sensing (RS), and Geographic Storytelling within sustainability and climate education in schools.
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The SPACE4GEO Large Scale Partnership has been officially launched! In the frame of the Paris Air Show, the European Commission’ Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space (DG DEFIS), organised a dedicated event including a roundtable of experts to celebrate the official launch of Space4GEO as well as the European Year of Skills.
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Emerging Space is a bi-annual flagship event organised by the Slovak Investment and Trade Development Agency (SARIO). Held on the 30th of May in Bratislava, the conference gathered about 400 online and in-person participants from around the world with the objective to help emerging space ecosystems grow and be valuable members of the global space community.
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