ESA EO CB activities ESA CEOS WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting Agenda Item # 18 Committee on Earth Observation Satellites ESA EO CB activities ESA CEOS WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting Agenda Item # 18 Working Group on Capacity Building & Data Democracy Indian Institute of Remote Sensing Indian Space Research Organisation Dehradun, India March 06th – 08th, 2019

Young professionals dealing with geoinformation Operational users Who do we target Young professionals dealing with geoinformation Operational users Future scientists PhD and university students Secondary schools General public and decision-makers

ESA partners in CB, Education & Training activities – Earth Observation In Europe Universities and public institutes in Europe; other Space Agencies European associations with an educational mandate like: Earsel, EGU/GIFT In the frame of International Cooperation outside Europe 3. CEOS WGCapD, UN (UNOOSA, FAO, UNESCO..) 4. Space Agencies worldwide 5. International associations with an educational mandate (e.g. SELPER) 6. Africa, China (TIGER, DRAGON Programmes) 8. Countries in Africa and South America cooperating with ESA 9. Development Banks

ESA ESERO project (European Space Education Resource Offices in ESA MS) – secondary school level Target: European students starting from an early age (primary and secondary education) Goal: using the space context to make the teaching and learning of STEM subjects more attractive ESERO offers an annual series of national or regional training sessions for both primary and secondary school teachers, offered in collaboration with national partners Teachers’ workshops; classroom resources; school projects ….

Education in the frame of European cooperation – secondary school level Forthcoming: joint School Lab with ESA, ASI, DLR, UK National Space Academy, INGV, Universities of Milan and Pavia (2019 Living Planet Symposium 13-17 May 2019, Milan, Italy) Demonstrating RS to schools using instruments and demos

Education in the frame of European Cooperation: EGU/GIFT network (secondary school level ) 8-years cooperation with EGU/GIFT (European Geosciences Union GIFT – Geosciences Information for Teachers). Workshops for Secondary School teachers selected worldwide. Enlarged since 2016 to Africa and South America. 2019 edition: ‘Plate tectonics and Earth’s structure – yesterday, today, tomorrow’.

Advanced Training Courses in ESA MS EO Training courses in Europe Advanced Training Courses in ESA MS Training in European Cooperating States

NASA / ESA Trans-Atlantic cooperation in EO Training (TAT courses) EO Training courses in Europe NASA / ESA Trans-Atlantic cooperation in EO Training (TAT courses)

Earth Observation Summer Schools in ESRIN 2018 Summer School ESRIN 70 early career scientists have taken part Usually organized every 2 years, open to students from worldwide, free tuition Topics : Global Observing Systems, Earth System Modelling, Data Assimilation, Global Change

Sentinel Training with the European Commission Upcoming Sentinel training with R.U.S. / European Commission (Research and User Support for Sentinel Products / Service operation – with focus on “training the trainers”) - priority: Europe

EO Training courses worldwide

Africa - TIGER Capacity Building Facility: Developing African Knowledge and Scientific Capacity

International cooperation with China in EO Training

Creation of Tools for Education, Training and CB Tools for secondary schools Posters Atlases Educational SW package for Image Processing and GIS (LeoWorks) Tools for general outreach i-books Apps for Tablets Tools for University level MOOCs SAR videos SNAP Tutorials

EO MOOCs ESA MOOCs (since 2015) : Climate from Space Optical Remote Sensing Monitoring the Greenland Ice Sheet from Space SAR MOOC “Echoes in Space” (6800 registrations) IN PREPARATION: 1) SAR MOOC “Echoes in Space” Rerun in preparation with Uni Jena and CSA 2) MOOC on Land Use and Land Cover Change (5 runs), Oriented to thematic application (not sensor -oriented), Foster use of all possible EO data (focus on Sentinels), in support of a variety of scientific, operati onal and societal Land Applications and services.

SNAP tutorials and forum Set of tutorials for SNAP ( Sentinel toolboxes) http://step.esa.int/main/doc/tutorials/ User forum dedicated to Sentinel toolboxes (SNAP) http://forum.step.esa.int/

LEOWorks 4.x Image Processing Software NEW release

CCI App & visualisation tool Climate from Space, ESA's iPad App for visualization of climate data being produced through the European Space Agency's Climate Change Initiative (CCI) Allows to visualize temporal changes of: sea surface temperature, the ice sheets, sea level, sea ice, carbon dioxide, soil moisture and many more.

USEFUL ADDRESSES ESA education portal: www.esa.int/education ESA EO Education & Training web pages: https://eo4society.esa.int/training-education/ https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/eo-education-and-training

Thank you! WGCapD-8 Annual Meeting IIRS, Dehradun, India March 06th – 08th, 2019 Thank you!