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Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community the EO AFRICA Initiative will achieve its overarching goal: fostering innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa.
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EO AFRICA Community

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March 2, 2023
The Numbers
The EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility started in March 2021. A variety of capacity-building activities, including face-to-face, Online Courses, and Webinars took place. The figures below display the magnitude and the outreach on country-level of the different activities.
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EO Africa in numbers

Data from the R&D platform:
R&D Accounts: 5208
Learners: 2095
Enrolments: 3001
Countries: 134
 
April 8, 2025
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The following four experts from prestigious African organizations have accepted our invitation to become members of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Advisory Board. They will have a major role in safeguarding the quality and scope of our activities and ensure
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EO AFRICA R&D Facility Advisory Board

Proud to announce our new advisory board, who will support and advise us in developing capacity for EO Africa while staying connected with the needs of the continent.
August 22, 2024
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The 21st Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing The webinar explores the methodologies for deriving water quality indicators from
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The recording of «Deriving Water Quality Indicators and Indices from Sentinel-2 Using Cloud Computing» Webinar is now available in our YouTube channel

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May 13, 2025
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The 20th Webinar on the EO AFRICA R&D Facility Webinar Series is now available in our YouTube channel: Using the new H SAF 6.25km ASCAT soil moisture data for drought monitoring The ASCAT soil moisture service, offered by EUMETSAT, is
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The recording of «Using the new H SAF 6.25km ASCAT soil moisture data for drought monitoring» Webinar is now available in our YouTube channel

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May 13, 2025
Research Calls
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ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC), announces: Call for Research Proposals 2025-2027
The main focus of this call is to leverage Earth observation to tackle present and future challenges in water and food security for Africa.
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Call for Research Proposals 2025-2027

Submissions Deadline: 15 June 2025
Start of Projects: 1 September 2025
Kick-off Workshop: 1 September 2025

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April 14, 2025
Space Academy
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Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched. The Chapters on Cloud Computing and Earth Observations Advances have been updated. Some additional webinars are included in the MOOC v3. For the presentations, both French and English subtitles can be displayed over the presentation.
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MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space v3

The updated version of MOOC (v3) is here.

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January 20, 2025
Training Modules
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A total of 11 downloadable training packages have been developed. The content of most of the MOOC-chapters, webinars, online and face to face trainings is derived from these training packages. The packages are intended to be used in MSc level curricula in the field of EO for water and food security, general EO knowledge and skills, Cloud Computing, Atmosphere and PolINSAR. All packages use free and open-software.
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1: General
2: EO for Water Resources and Security
3: EO for Food Security
4: POLinSAR processing and app...
5: Atmospheric composition proc...
6: Marine and Coastal resources app...

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April 7, 2022

 
 

R&D Facilities

Fostering Partnership
Facilitating R&D
Leveraging Digital Tools
Reinforcing Capacity

 

Why EO Africa

EO AFRICA stands for African Framework for Research Innovation, Communities and Applications in Earth Observation. EO AFRICA fosters an African-European R&D partnership, facilitating the sustainable adoption of the Earth Observation and related space technology in Africa – following an African user driven approach with a long-term (>10 years) vision for the digital era in Africa.

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EO AFRICA Community

Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community

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Space Academy

The Space Academy is the institute of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility that will take care of the (co-)development, hosting and the certification of all the developed content. The Space Academy will provide a system to enrol candidates for the

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