Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus User Uptake Erasmus Project

Project Title

Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus User Uptake

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Sector Skills Alliances in vocational education and training

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2017

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Overcoming skills mismatches (basic/transversal); Digital skills

Project Summary

EO4GEO – “Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus User Uptake”. EO4GEO is an Erasmus+ Sector Skills Alliance gathering 26 partners from 12 countries from academia, private and public sector active in the education/training and space/geospatial sectors. EO4GEO aims to help bridging the skills gap between supply and demand of education and training in the space/geospatial sector by reinforcing the existing ecosystem and fostering the uptake and integration of space/geospatial data and services in end-user applications. EO4GEO will work in an multi- and interdisciplinary way and apply innovative solutions for its education and training actions including: case based and collaborative learning scenarios; learning-while-doing in a living lab environment; on-the-job training; the co-creation of knowledge, skills and competencies; etc. EO4GEO will define a long-term and sustainable strategy to fill the gap between supply of and demand for space/geospatial education and training taking into account the current and expected technological and non-technological developments in the space/geospatial and related sectors (e.g. ICT). The strategy will be implemented by: creating and maintaining an ontology-based Body of Knowledge for the space/geospatial sector based on previous efforts; developing and integrating a dynamic collaborative platform with associated tools; designing and developing a series of curricula and a rich portfolio of training modules directly usable in the context of Copernicus and other relevant programmes and conducting a series of training actions for a selected set of scenario’s in three sub-sectors – integrated applications, smart cities and climate change to test and validate the approach. Finally a long-term Action Plan will be developed and endorsed to roll-out and sustain the proposed solutions.

Project Website

http://www.eo4geo.eu

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 3876045 Eur

Project Coordinator

GISIG GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS INTERNATIONAL GROUP ASSOCIAZIONE & Country: IT

Project Partners

• FRIEDRICH-SCHILLER-UNIVERSITAT JENA
• UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DELLA BASILICATA
• PARIS-LODRON-UNIVERSITAT SALZBURG
• PANEPISTIMIO PATRON
• CONSIGLIO NAZIONALE DELLE RICERCHE
• UNIVERSITAT JAUME I DE CASTELLON
• SVEUCILISTE U ZAGREBU – GEODETSKI FAKULTET