1. The EOPOWER project Earth Observation for economic emPOWERment June 2013 – May 2015 Project Coordinator: Nicolas Ray (Uni. of Geneva; UNEP/GRID-Geneva) Project Director: Mark Noort (HCP International) Project Manager: Gregory Giuliani (Uni. of Geneva; UNEP/GRID-Geneva) GEO-X, EU speaker corner Geneva, Switzerland January 14, 2014

2. ENV-2013-6.5-2: Mobilising environmental knowledge for policy and society (c) Empowering international economic development through the use of environmental Earth Observations Coordination and Support Action (Supporting Action) EC Project Officer: Ms. Jane Shiel 2

3. Project partners 3

4. Consortium map 4

5. Create conditions for sustainable economic development Through the increased use of Earth observation products and services For environmental applications Effective use of Earth observation for decision-making Management of economic and sustainable development processes 5 What the project is about

6. EOPOWER builds on six FP7 projects GEONetCab GEO Network for Capacity Building BalkanGEONet Towards Inclusion of Balkan Countries into Global Earth Observation Initiatives OBSERVE Strengthening and development of Earth Observation activities for the Environment in the Balkan area SEOCA GEO capacity building initiative in Central Asia EGIDA Coordinating Earth and Environmental cross-disciplinary projects to promote GEOSS enviroGRIDS Building Capacity for a Black Sea Catchment Observation and Assessment System supporting Sustainable Development 6

7. 1.Roadshow activities to promote the increased use of EO products and services for environmental applications 2.Create a portfolio of potential EO applications for economic development and environmental management 3.Enhancement of the resource facility on capacity building in the GEO web portal (Cooperation with CEOS). Workshop “Bringing GEOSS services into practice” 4.Establishment of local focal points (nodes) that actively promote and provide capacity building on the use of EO for environmental applications effectively and at low-cost 5.Explore the establishment of a high-level forum of stakeholders 6.Establishment of a central feedback node 7 What we will do:

8. Capacity building resource facility will be much improved and integrated in the GCI. Cooperation with CEOS. Workshop “Bringing GEOSS services into practice” has been significantly improved. The teaching material now comprises new chapters plus a virtual machine with latest software versions, tutorial and data already installed. Promotion of data sharing principles within UNEP 8 GEOSS-related

9. Southern AfricaFrench-speaking Africa Czech Republic & SlovakiaPoland & Ukraine Turkey and Turkish-speaking countriesBlack Sea Region Balkan RegionLatin America International organizations 9 How will we do it ?

10. 10 Pilot studies For sustainable contribution to GEOSS and other relevant international initiatives Armenia

11. Making a survey of available EO datasets in Armenia, publish them in a Spatial Data infrastructure (SDI) and register them to GEOSS (linked to FP7 EcoArm2ERA project) Identifying stakeholders and infrastructures, and moving toward a National SDI. Setting up GeoNetCast (and associated capacity building) at the Center for Ecological and Noosphere Studies (CENS) Help CENS become a teaching centre of the workshop "Bringing GEOSS services into practice" Toward GEO Membership 11 Pilot study in Armenia

12. Thank you Further information: www.eopower.euwww.eopower.eu 12

13. Success stories (in non-technical language, feasible, replication capacity, sustainable) Marketing toolkits (international trends, earth observation examples, references) Pilot projects, innovation funds, quick-wins (demonstration that EO actually works) Promotion outside EO community (fairs, seminars, lunch- bag meetings, magazines) Resource facilities for reference and capacity building (distributed, but connected, in different languages) 13 Tools for earth observation marketing: Source: Marketing earth observation products and services (Noort 2013)

14. Five general work packages: Central feedback node, monitoring and evaluation Capacity building Resource facility Science valorisation Management 14 How will we do it?