Education

17 October 2023

GEO-Academy kick off meeting in Athens

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.

19 July 2023

SPACE4GEO: the Large-Scale Partnership on Space Data, Services and Applications: Perspectives on Sector Skills Strategy

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.

14 June 2023

Emerging Space 2023: the conference launched a new European cooperation initiative

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.

11 April 2023

Video: Monitoring plant health from space

A new video from Eurisy and ESA highlights the potential contributions of EO data to enhance the monitoring of plant health.

31 May 2022

“Messages to the above” poster exhibition at the Living Planet Symposium 2022

On the occasion of the Living Planet Symposium held in Bonn in May 2022, our report "Messages to the above: looking at art from the sky" became a poster exhibition.

29 March 2022

(Re)Visit Europe with European Space Technologies

The third edition of the CASSINI Hackathons & Mentoring is here! From 12-14 May 2022, you will be challenged to develop ideas that support sustainable travel, enhance the experience in local cities and cultures, and promote thoughtful exploration of Europe’s nature. Discover how you can help the tourism industry to become more resilient and sustainable with digital satellite solutions!

3 May 2021

Boosting the European education system with space and geospatial data

Eurisy recently joined as an associated partner the EO4GEO project. In the frame of this partnership, Eurisy aims at contributing to the acquisition of EO and GI skills for professionals and to stimulate the curiosity of the younger generation, also relying on the involvement of Eurisy in the Erasmus+ GIS4Schools Project.

26 April 2021

GIS4Schools: Paving the way for the school of the future

The GIS4Schools project is about to define the school of tomorrow! The Erasmus+ funded project aims at promoting a new innovative approach to foster the teaching of STEAM topics in secondary schools. Pupils will have the opportunity to learn about GIS technology and how to use GIS to respond to climate change challenges.

20 January 2021

The Week of Geospatial Information (GI)

The Week of GI-Education for the Future aims to bring together teachers, experts, practitioners and students to present and discuss recent advances in GI-education and think about GI-education for the future.

14 January 2021

GIS4Schools Logo Competition Winner Announced

The final logo of the GIS4Schools Project has been decided!