Eurisy Attended GEO-Academy’s General Assembly Meeting in Lund, Sweden!

Between 5 and 6 November 2024, as a GEO-Academy project partner, Eurisy attended GEO-Academy’s General Assembly meeting in Lund, Sweden. The General Assembly brough together all 12 project partners from 7 countries and presented a great opportunity for a discussion on the project’s achievements so far and next steps.

GEO-Academy is an Erasmus+ project, aiming to develop a network offering tailored teacher training and development to incorporate Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Remote Sensing (RS) and Earth Observation (EO) along with Geospatial Storytelling in environmental and Sustainable Development education topics through tools and materials.

During the meeting, project partners discussed GEO-Academy’s achievements, including the successful 2024 Summer School in Greece. The summer school focused on exchanging knowledge and enriching the participants’ understanding of site-specific problems linked to geospatial phenomena, such as population density, and flood susceptibility, as well as relevant methodologies, resources and geospatial tools. Through a range of lectures and collaborative workshops, the summer school aimed at fostering partnerships between teachers, students, innovators, researchers, and stakeholders in science-related fields, encouraging collaboration on real-life challenges and innovations, among other things. Different geospatial tools were presented, such as PurpleAir, EO Browser, GTIF and many more. Learn more about the tools here.

Project partners also discussed the newly launched GEOBSERVE platform, developed by GEO-Academy, which hosts trainings and materials, as well as resources and guides to support teaching sustainable development in the classroom, available free and accessible everywhere. The GEO-Academy consortium developed a guided tour of GEOBSERVE, available here. 

At last, project partners touched upon GEO-Academy’s next steps, which consist of many upcoming national and international training events.

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