The event is jointly organized by the Project Coordinator National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and the Project Partner Space Research and Technology Institute (SRTΙ). It will take place on:

March 24^th 2017, from 10:00 to 16:00, Great Hall of the Central Headquarters of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

15^th November St., №1, Sofia, Bulgaria

GEO-CRADLE partner Telecommunications Research and Studies Centre (CERT) of Tunis, will participate in the Dialogue 5+5: Third Ministerial Conference on Research Innovation and Higher Education on 30th and 31st of March in Tunis.
The third Ministerial Conference aims at strengthening partnerships in research, innovation and higher education to further stimulate economic growth, job creation and social cohesion in the Western Mediterranean region.

 

In the framework of the GEO-CRADLE Adaptation to Climate Change (ACC) pilot, NOA along with the network partners organizes the PRE-TECT experimental campaign in order to run and validate the desert dust forecasting module of the pilot. Moreover, advanced ground-based radiation measurements will be used to evaluate the SENSE energy system for the determination of solar energy.
The experiment will take place from 1st to 30th April 2017, aiming to advance the ACC and Energy GEO-CRADLE pilots. Detailed information on the participants and the instrumentation can be found under http://pre-tect.space.noa.gr/

We cordially invite you to participate in the Regional Workshop of the GEO-CRADLE Horizon2020 project. The event is jointly organized by the Project Coordinator National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and the Project Partner National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics (INOE).
It will take place on 9-10 May 2017 at Magurele, Ilfov, Romania. We are looking forward to welcoming you to this event and we are certain that your presence and input will greatly enrich our discussions.

 

The event is jointly organized by the Project Coordinator National Observatory of Athens (NOA) and the Project Partner Centre for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE). It will take place on:

May 25^th 2017, from 10:00 to 16:00,

Le Meridien Heliopolis Hotel (tbc)
51 El-Orouba, Almazah, Cairo, Egypt

GEO-CRADLE will participate in the 11th GEO European Projects Workshop.The purpose of the conference is to bring together European stakeholders interested in and actively contributing to the Global Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS).The event is a forum to exchange ideas and inform participants about work and initiatives undertaken in the context of GEOSS.

The conference is organised by the European Commission and Finish Meteorological Institute.

Dr Haris Kontoes, NOA Research Director and GEO-CRADLE Coordinator, was kindly invited by the UAE Space Agency, to participate the Congress by delivering a presentation in the session “Earth Observation and Planetary Symposium”.

 

The 2016 EGM convened on 28-29 November 2016 in Seoul, Republic of Korea and organized by the United Nations Office for Sustainable Development (UNOSD) in collaboration with Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) Korea, Korean Ministry of Environment and Korea University. This EGM brought experts from the developing countries of the mid-latitude regions to better understand the interdependence of water-food-ecosystem in a scientific perspective by sharing respective knowledge, challenges and opportunities to achieve the SDGs in that specific region. It also aimed to build a professional network between the participants to promote further study and active debate on cross-sectoral integration and the water-food-ecosystem resilience.

 

GEO-CRADLE participated in the GEO-XIII Plenary and Exhibition 2016 a top event where GEO-CRADLE partners met in order to explore new opportunities for regional networking and contributions towards the implementation of GEO’s and Copernicus’ objectives.

Dr. Haris Kontoes was invited and gave two presentations at the 1st Data Providers Workshop entitled: “Fostering regional cooperation and roadmap for GEO and Copernicus implementation in N. Africa, Middle East, and the Balkans. The Regional Data Hub” and at the side event “Towards open Earth Observation data policies. Challenges in Implementing Data Sharing Principles” entitled: “The challenge to identify regional datasets to be linked to the GEO-CRADLE Regional Data Hub“.
 

 
GEO-CRADLE has proactively engaged and keeps engaging with the relevant regional stakeholders (data/service providers, decision makers, and SMEs) in a series of consultation activities including surveys, interviews, workshops and bilateral exchanges, in order to identify the regional needs. After a first in-depth analysis of their feedback which was presented in the GEO-CRADLE meeting in Novisad, Serbia, GEO-CRADLE is now going to make a concrete first step through the 4 pilot/feasibility studies towards addressing the identified gaps and needs in relation to common regional challenges by creating the appropriate ecosystem, building the necessary toolbox, and providing a first tangible outcome.

The main goal of the pilot activities is not to develop new science, but to build on the integration of existing capacities (infrastructure, datasets, models, etc.) and skills within the relevant group of project partners that are involved towards the provision of improved EO Services in the Region of Interest (RoI). The pilots will span a period of 15 months, and the final results will be presented to relevant stakeholders (especially decision makers) in a dedicated workshop.

The objective of the GEO-CRADLE Workshop, which took place on 16 November 2016 in Limassol-Cyprus, was to analyse and discuss in detail the proposed refined scope of the pilot activities (WP4), on the basis of the gap analysis (WP3) and other inputs from partners. 

The second day, 17th of November 2016, the scope of the pilot activities (WP4) was discussed thoroughly, including a concrete roadmap and a specific action plan, on the basis of the gap analysis (WP3) and other inputs from partners, taking also into consideration the conclusions from the dedicated thematic Workshops which were organised for each pilot.