On June 18th, Eurisy hosted its annual General Assembly at the EUMETSAT headquarters in Darmstadt, Germany. This one-day event was a valuable opportunity for members to reconvene and discuss ongoing transformations and achievements. Featuring inspiring discussions and new ideas for future initiatives, the 2024 edition of Eurisy's General Assembly was a successful and productive day that fostered international cooperation and strengthened the community.
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On 11 December 2023, the European Union Space Programme Agency (EUSPA), in collaboration with Eurisy and the Belgium Federal Science Policy Office (BELSPO), organised the workshop on “Satellite-Based Services for Disaster Risk Management” at the Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium. The workshop aimed at bringing together high-level decision-makers and policy experts, a range of service providers, as well as representatives of end-user communities, on the uses, benefits, and challenges of utilising satellite technologies to protect populations from disaster threats. By fostering dialogue and understanding of both the capabilities on offer, as well as the needs and requirements of users, the workshop series supports Eurisy’s core aim of bridging space and society.
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Eurisy gathered its members for its yearly event entirely dedicated to its members on 12 December 2023 at the Brussels Institute of Natural Sciences to take stock of all the activities performed throughout the year and to look prospectively at the priorities to be collectively pursued in 2024.
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On 30 November 2023, public authorities, researchers, civil institutions, private companies, and other relevant stakeholders gathered at the Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava to discuss local challenges related to natural hazards and how local entities could make the best use of the European space infrastructure to improve preparedness, strengthen prevention, optimise response, innovate recovery and overall boost resilience.
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Here is our interview series with the Secretariat Director of GEO, the Group on Earth Observations. Yana Gevorgyan explains what GEO is and what are the ambitious plans of the organisation to make Earth information available to all decision-makers working to ensure the sustainability of nature and livelihoods.
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On June 19th the brand-new ESA headquarter opened its doors to the Eurisy community to host its 2023 General Assembly. The General Assembly is the key annual meeting to take stock of the activities performed by the secretariat to meet the objectives set and to share information, exchange experiences, discuss potential partnerships. To address all possible needs the event has been organised in hybrid format counting 25 participants present on site and 17 members participating remotely, altogether representing 19 countries and 23 organisations.
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In December 2022, the European Union Agency for the Space Programme joined the Eurisy Network. We interviewed their Executive Director, Mr Rodrigo da Costa, to know more about EUSPA and their reasons to become a member of Eurisy.
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The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) time, the biggest global space forum landed in Paris. IAC2022 has been inaugurated as “Space for @ll”, to highlight the change experienced by the sector transforming it from a closed sector into a transversal, multidisciplinary industry enabling highly innovative services.
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The workshop "Satellite-based Services for Disaster Risk Management" held on May 25th in Athens, aimed at creating a common understanding among Greek and European stakeholders of what satellite-based services can bring during the disaster management cycle and of how to facilitate the access and use of such solutions at national and regional levels.
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