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GEO-K invited at the European Space Expo

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GEO-K has been invited to give a talk at the European Space Expo on 1st November 2014, the itinerant free exhibition that highlights the many ways in which the EU space programme helps EU citizens “on the Earth” every day.
The exhibition has already visited the following cities: Copenhagen, Toulouse, Helsinki, Brussels, Vienna, Larnaca (Cyprus), London, Madrid, Budapest, Hannover, Warsaw, Bratislava, Dublin, Rome, Vilnius, Tallinn, Munich, Lisbon, Craiova (Romania), Sofia, Prague and Genoa.

GEO-K is a partner of LearnEO! project

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GEO-K is a partner of LearnEO!, a 2-year Earth Observation education project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and developed by different European Institutions. LearnEO! main aim is to increase the understanding and knowledge of satellite data obtained from ESA missions and demonstrate how these can be used in the real world when facing environmental problems. The project allowed to develop hands-on training resources for primarily (but not exclusively) use of teachers and students of high school to universities.

The project has now launched an open lesson-writing competition: everyone can submit their own proposal and take a chance to win up to Euro 5,000!

http://www.learn-eo.org

 

GEO-K won the Best Ideas challenge at the GMES Masters Competition 2012

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GEO-K and SERCO prized at the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) Masters competition (GMES MASTERS 2012). GEO-K and SERCO won the “Ideas Challenge” competition proposing  “MOSP-RIOS – OFF-SHORE OIL SPILL & FLARING MONITORING”, a service for the monitoring of gas flaring and of oil spilling from off-shore platforms using GMES products.

The competition, in its second year, received more than 100 innovative business proposals from 20 European countries. The 2012 winners were announced at the event, in Munich, organized by Anwendungszentrum Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) GmbH, on 25 October 2012.