EO Africa R&D Facility, ESA, the African Commission, GMES & Africa and CURAT announce: The winners of the AfricaGIS 2021 Hackathonon Food Security and Water Resources During the AfricaGIS 2021 conference held in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire on 22nd – 26th

Extensive time-series on vegetation and wealth of operational satellites from space provides ample opportunities to monitor vegetation developments and more and more accurate yield forecast. This MOOC provides an introduction to “Droughts”, answers questions on how it can be quantified,

ESA EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in collaboration with the African Union Commission (AUC) announce: Call for Research Proposals 2021-2022 Related to the themes: EO for managing water scarcity and safeguarding food security in Africa. EO AFRICA stands for African Framework

Open to 1-year R&D proposal contributing to one of the following areas:

• Water resources management
• Food security

Important dates:

• Open call: 16 July 2021
• Deadline for submission of Proposals: 30 September 2021
• Communication of Results: (tentative) Mid November 2021
• Beginning of Activities: (tentative) 1st quarter 2022

As part of a long-term strategy (>10 years), the European Space Agency launched their new initiative EO AFRICA (African Framework for Research Innovation, Communities and Applications in Earth Observation), by the kick-off meeting of the EO AFRICA Research and Development