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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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March 2, 2023
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Following the format established in since 2021, throughout 2025 the ESA-funded EO AFRICA R&D Facility played a key role in strengthening the knowledge and skills of African colleagues in Earth Observation (EO) and in fostering collaboration between African and European researchers.
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EO AFRICA R&D Facility in 2025

An overview of the Facility’s activities in 2025.
Looking forward to the new year and wishing you happy end of the year festivities and a happy and prosperous 2026!
December 18, 2025
Event details
  • Face-to-Face course on SAR Polarimetry and Interferometry | March 16 – 20, 2026 | Kampala, Uganda | A 5-day training course (6 hours per day), combining theoretical lectures and hands-on exercises to enhance your knowledge of radar polarimetry and interferometry.
Face to Face Courses

SAR Polarimetry and Interferometry

Dates: March 16 – 20, 2026
Deadline: February 9, 2026
Venue: Kampala, Uganda

Applications are open!
December 12, 2025
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.
R&D Facility

EO AFRICA in numbers

Data from the R&D platform:
R&D Accounts: >5500
Learners: >2000
Enrolments: >3000
Countries: 147
 
April 8, 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.
R&D Facility

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.
R&D Facility

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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...
7: Cloud Computing services: Dunia...

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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