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Call for Proposals

The European Commission has just issued a Call for Proposals with a view to select the operator of a new and important element of the Copernicus User Uptake and Market Development toolkit: The Copernicus Incubation Programme.
Thanks to a total budget of EUR 3.000.000 (+ EUR 450.000 for organisation costs), the programme will financially support the

March 9th, 2017|News|

Open Space Call of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme

On behalf of the Copernicus Academy, we want to draw your attention on the open Space Call of the Horizon 2020 Work Programme.

Several of the topics could potentially be attractive to a wide variety of interested parties, including academic and research institutions, businesses, start-ups and SME’s.

Some topics are of particular interest to Copernicus:

EO-1-2017: Downstream applications
This topic

February 1st, 2017|News|

GeoSmartCity final Conference

The GeoSmartCity final Conference will present the results of the project and its follow-up, to strengthen ties with key stakeholders and to direct towards the integration of the methods and results of the project in the context of local and national governance processes, following the Euro-pean initiatives and trends.

The Conference will be held in Genova,

January 16th, 2017|Conferences, News|

GISIG represented within the Copernicus Academy Network

The GISIG Association, giCASES coordinator, as well as the giCASES partners KU Leuven, University of Salzburg and Politecnico di Milano participated last October 2016 in the Call for Expression of interest to be part of the new Copernicus Academy Network, an initiative by DG Growth aimed at promoting user uptake activities.

We are pleased to announce

January 16th, 2017|News|

giCASES second dissemination seminar/workshop

19 January, 2017
Faculty Club, Groot Begijnhof 14, 3000 Leuven, Belgium | 9:30 – 15:00

The giCASES partner Katholieke Universiteit Leuven is organizing the seminar “Case-based collaborative learning in the geospatial field” with the following objectives:

To present and discuss examples of case-based collaborative learning in the geospatial sector;
To present different perspectives on collaborative and case-based learning including

January 11th, 2017|News, Workshops|