The newly established EO4GEO Alliance provides solutions to learners and employers within the Earth Observation and Geographic Information community, enabling the match between offer and demand of skills. All relevant stakeholders are invited to contact the Alliance and be active part in this process. — Assessing the skills in demand for the workforce of tomorrow The EO4GEO Alliance endeavour to foster skills development in the space downstream and GI domain is based on the idea to close the skills gap between the supply and demand of education and training in the sector. …

Geodetic Institute of Slovenia (GI) is a leading Slovenian public institution for geodetic, geoinformatic, photogrammetric, cartographic and hydrographic research and development, established in 1953. Funded completely project-wise, GI plays a bridging role between public, private and research sectors. A significant part of the projects is elaborated for the Surveying &…

The EO4GEO Summer School “Introduction to Satellite Remote Sensing”, was held in Potenza (Italy) in semi-virtual mode from 15 to 17 June 2021. The school was addressed to employees of Local Public Administrations (LPAs), aiming at increasing their level of knowledge of the Earth Observation (EO) fundamentals and their awareness…

The EO4GEO BoK tools are innovative collaborative tools, based on the EO4GEO Body of Knowledge (BoK) and containing several functionalities. Among them, the Occupational Profile Tool and the Job Offer Tool are meant to support the labour market of the EO*GI sector, allowing to create and explore occupational profiles and…

Share with us a few words about your professional activities. I’m in charge of geomatic projects. I’m also organising the working group about remote sensing in public services — GTCOWAL Wallonia is a region very active in the use of space technologies and data. …

Pixel Company is a geographic innovations studio located in Sofia, Bulgaria. We work with various organizations — schools, media, representatives of national and local authorities, to promote geospatial technologies by providing educational content, workshops, training, and data. Since the summer of 2021, we are part of the Copernicus Relays network. …

1. Tell us a bit about yourself My name is Tessa. Currently, I’m studying Environmental Science at the University of Reading in my third and final year. I cannot define my enthusiasm for studying the environment into one field, I found the love for earth observation firstly through the amazing…

Over the past years, EO4GEO has prepared a Sector Skills Strategy for the Earth Observation and Geoinformation (EO*GI) sector defining not only a vision and mission, but also a set of goals and strategic objectives for skills development in the sector. …

A new EO4GEO training opportunity is coming soon! In February — March 2022 SADL, the Spatial Applications Division at KU Leuven, will give students the opportunity to realise a project work on citizen science and geospatial data. The project work is based on the My Gardenlab (Mijn Tuinlab in Dutch)…