On 27 October 2020 Eurisy hosted the “Space for Cities” workshop. Now they have published the results of this meeting in a report. The report contains the main messages from the workshop, which carried the subtitle “From innovation to operation: A talk about concrete uses of satellite data and services to support cities’ resilience and […]Read More
Earlier this year the European Commission launched its plans towards developing a ‘Digital Twin’ of planet Earth, dubbed ‘Destination Earth’, abbreviated as ‘DestinE’. The objective of this initiative is to develop a very high precision digital model of the Earth to monitor and simulate natural and human activity, and to develop and test scenarios that […]Read More
The European Defence Industrial Development Programme (EDIDP) is looking for solutions to enhance the EU’s maritime awareness: “multifunctional capabilities, including space based surveillance and tracking (discover, locate, identify, classify and counteract the threats). Deadline: 1 December 2020. Complete call text can be found on the EU portal. Challenge The EU has an increasing need of […]Read More
Wednesday 30 September 2020 – 16:00-17:00 CET In preparation for the EU Green Deal funding calls, dotSPACE Foundation is organising a free webinar for anyone interested in writing a proposal or being part of a consortium. During this webinar a number of experts will talk about the role of space and space data in the […]Read More
The Dutch Research Council NWO has awarded funding to nine new research proposals in the area of Earth observation. The new projects will investigate for example geothermal energy, the navigation of songbirds and a historical set of aerial images of the Antarctic Peninsula. The researchers involved will receive the grant from the User Support Programme […]Read More
Matchmaking event for the European Green Deal callsRead More
EU Research and Innovation Days 22-24 September 2020. Programme and registration now online.Read More
The European Commission has launched an Invitation to Tender (ITT) to set up a system prototype demonstration of the SAR/Galileo return link service two-way messaging services and develop and validate a prototype of Second Generation Beacon. The total estimated contract value is EUR 700,000 and the deadline for submission is 8 October 2020 16:00. Full […]Read More
If you know Amsterdam, it will not surprise you to learn that the city has 829 bridges and 205 km of quay walls. That’s a lot of maintenance! At the moment only some 10% is monitored, using traditional methods such as tachometric survey and levelling. The engineering department of the City of Amsterdam is therefore […]Read More
Dutch water managers take measures to ensure that it is not too dry or too wet. They do this on the basis of their available data on ditches, rivers, quays, meadows, locks, etc. This data is not always up-to-date. Therefore the Dutch government is inviting companies to build a software application based on satellite data. […]Read More















