Digital Earth Alliance

Digital Earth Alliance Fostering Capacity Building in GI across Europe and beyond Challenge Employers from all sectors and relevant domains are facing a significant lack of GI professionals. Consequences are, amongst others: missed opportunities to enhance societal and business decisions with spatial intelligence decelerated GI sector growth (in spite of promising business opportunities) difficulties in performing required statutory tasks time-consuming and expensive staff recruitment Existing evidence, e.g. from Erasmus+ projects and surveys, supports this problem statement. Analysis As the primary […]

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Education and Capacity Building at BEGEO October 2021 by AMFM BeLux

The Education and Capacity Building track started with a morning session chaired by Danny Vandenbroucke (KU Leuven). The session was briefly introduced by Hans Breemersch, President of EUROGI. Peter Zeil from Spatial Services GmbH explained the idea of developing a Copernicus Academy Hub for sharing knowledge, stimulate innovation and outreach in the EO*GI sector (CopHub.AC). Danny Vandenbroucke from KU Leuven presented the results of the EO4GEO Sector Skills Alliance including a Body of Knowledge, a tool ecosystem and method for […]