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Outreach and Awareness raisingThis pillar is to ensure that adequate awareness and outreach activities are undertaken to better engage policymakers, administrators, entrepreneurs, scientists and civil society at all levels in using EO and geospatial data and information.
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Transforming land-based resource management: the role of GME…
21 December 2024
Extreme weather events, climate change, land degradation, droughts and floods severely affect the Earth, and Africa is severely impacted by these environmental challenges.
As a result land based natural resources among others are at risk. Ultimately, the socioeconomic development of its people are threatened. Improved environmental and natural resources manage…
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Join the Copernicus Academy and Relays Networks!
21 December 2024
Do you want to engage with the European Commission at a national, regional and local level to foster Copernicus user uptake and market development? The Commission is launching a call for expression of interest to open two Copernicus Networks to new members...
To unleash the full potential of the Copernicus Open Data and Information, the European Commission is run…
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GMES & Africa contributes to awareness raising on applic…
21 December 2024
The African Union Commission participated the high level awareness raising workshop on space science applications held at the UNECA on 07 October 2017, in Addis Ababa.
Dr. Tidiane Ouattara, the GMES & Africa Support Programme Coordinator and Space Expert of the African Union Commission briefed participants how GMES & Africa use images of Earth from spa…
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AUC kick started assessing grant applications for the GMES…
21 December 2024
The African Union Commission has kick-started the assessment of grant applications for the GMES & Africa Support Programme at the Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa.
At the official opening of the proposals, the Chair of the Evaluation Committee and Director, Human Resources, Science and Technology, said "we have started the process of assessing the …
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GMES and Africa is one of the keynote speakers in Africa GIS…
21 December 2024
GMES & Africa Support Programme Coordinator, Dr Tidiane Ouattara is one of the keynote speakers in the upcoming Africa GIS 2017 Conference which will be held in Addis Ababa from 20 to 24 November 2017 under the theme: Geospatial and Statistical information imperatives for the ‘Africa We Want’.During the five day Africa GIS 2017 conference, leading scholars i…
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Sentinel-2 cloudless mosaic: the first global (almost) cloud…
21 December 2024
EOX IT Services, an Austrian Open Source solution provider for Earth Observation services, has implemented a methodical process crafting an almost cloudless Sentinel-2 map of the world
About 70 per cent of the Earth’s surface is covered by clouds any given day. Imagery obtained by satellite sensors operating in the visible light range is constantly constraine…
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GMES and Africa Draws Lessons from MESA Sustainability Meeti…
21 December 2024
A stakeholders meeting on the sustainability of the achievements of the Monitoring for Environment and Security in Africa (MESA) is underway at the African Union Commission Headquarters in Addis Ababa. The meeting discussed lessons learned, sustainability mechanisms and exit plan for the MESA project.
At the opening of the two-day meeting, the Director of R…
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GMES and AFRICA participates in the AMCOMET Africa Hydromet…
21 December 2024
This inaugural African Ministerial Conference on Meteorology (AMCOMET) – Africa Hydromet Forum was held in Addis Ababa to provide strategic insight towards Africa’s climate and disaster resilience through improvement of hydrological, meteorological and early-warning services.
Co-hosted by the African Union Commission and the Federal Democratic Republic of E…
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A key governance pillar of GMES and Africa holds its inaugur…
21 December 2024
The GMES & Africa Policy Coordination and Advisory Committee (PCAC) has held its inaugural ordinary session in Abidjan, Côte d’ivoire, from 4 to 6 September 2017. PCAC is a key governance pillar of GMES & Africa.
Space is an important enabler for Africa’s sustainable development as well as for the advancement of Science and Technology on the continent…
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Copernicus assists in monitoring risks and planning for resp…
21 December 2024
A recent example on how data provided by the Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service can contribute to the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC)In March 2017, following an armed attack on the oil port of Es Sider in Libya, the Regional Marine Pollution Emergency Response Centre for Mediterranean Sea (REMPEC) activated the Mediterranean Operational Network for the Global Ocean Observing System (MONGOOS) services to simulate the worst-case scenario in the case of a potential oil spill…
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A wealth of Copernicus training videos at your disposal
21 December 2024
A total of 68 training videos complete with presentations and module demonstrations on the Copernicus programme - such as material on funding instruments, access to Copernicus data and information and the many uses thereof - are at the disposal of Entrepreneurs, developers, GI professionals and public authorities, as well as all interested stakeholders. One of the many ways in which the European Commission is promoting the Copernicus programme and developing user uptake of Copernicus data and information is by organising Copernicus Training…
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Administrative Agreement between DG DEVCO and JRC
21 December 2024
JRC will continue in providing a support to the GMES & Africa implementing actors along the same lines as in the framework of AMESD and MESA projects, i.e. covering the institutional, training, and scientific/technological aspects.Since the scope of the works differs (GMES & Africa has a smaller infrastructural component, and will build on the MESA stations), JRC is not expected to develop and distribute a brand new release of the eStation, but rather to ensure the evolution and adaptation of the 2.0 release, distributed within MESA,…
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A new Commissioner has been elected for HRST
21 December 2024
Her Excellency Sarah Mbi Enow Anyang, from Cameroon, was elected as the new Commissioner for Human Resources, Science and Technology of the African Union Commission.
H.E. Anyang has over fifteen (15) years’ experience in the field of Academia. She is a Professor of African and Commonwealth Literature, Department of English. Previously she was th…
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GMES and Africa visits ESA-ESRIN
21 December 2024
Following the invitation of ESA/ESRIN, the GMES and Africa team -composed of the Project Management Unit (PMU) and the Technical Assistance Team (TAT) - performed a visit to ESRIN headquarters in Frascati, Italy on the 3rd and 4th of July, 2017. The coordination meeting in ESRIN aimed at (1) presenting ESA and its EO activities in Africa to GMES & Africa team, (2) presenting the project GMES & Africa team to ESA’s Experts and (3) Discussing about perspectives of cooperation between ESA and AUC.The discussions were constructive and…
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GMES and AFRICA participates in the conference “Space Soluti…
21 December 2024
Invited by the European Space Agency, the Coordinator was given the opportunity to present how GMES and Africa can contribute to a more prosperous and integrated Africa and what could be the innovative benefits from Copernicus data use.About the conferenceOn 26 October 2016, the European Union (EU) issued its Space Strategy for Europe and signed a Joint Statement with the European Space Agency, which together aim to maximize the integration of space into European society and economy, by increasing the use of space technologies and applications…