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.
A brief explanation of the numbers above:
5208 EO AFRICA RDF accounts represent users who signed up to the website showing interest in our content and in participating in the project. These users are affiliated to 134 Countries.
2095 Learners have been approved to participate in our online and face-to-face courses. Many of these learners were eligible to participate in more than one course, therefore there were 3301 course enrolments.
Once users became members of the EO AFRICA RDF platform, they are asked to provide information about their professional affiliation and in which country this affiliation takes place.
The country of affiliation of our members is represented in the map below, where the circles sizes represent the proportional participation of each country.
When students signed up to a course, they were asked about their date of birth and they gender, between other details.
While the map above shows platform users spread over all continents, the map below which represents the nationality of enrolled students shows a that the vast majority of students are actually Africans.
One of the objectives of EO AFRICA RDF was to be inclusive. We managed to welcome into our online and face-to-face courses 370 women and 1057 men (a proportion of roughly 1 to 3) ranging from the ages of 21 to 69 years old. (This data excludes MOOC learners)
In the first phase of the EO AFRICA RDF we had 275 enrolments on the face-to-face courses and 554 enrolments in the online courses with a 3 to 1 proportion between men and women.
For our second RDF, still in progress, we have so far 56 enrolments on the face-to-face courses and 201 enrolments in the online courses with a improved 2 to 1 proportion between men and women.
3 MOOCS (Massive Online Open Courses) have been offered, with a total of 1656 enrolments. The graph below shows the number of enrolments of the 3 editions of the MOOC.
The Learning Management System
The Facility uses Moodle, hosted at the University of Twente, as a Learning Management System (LMS).
Looking into the log of the LMS and matching the learners IP addresses to a location, we can find out from where the courses are accessed. Interestingly enough, the map of learners is more similar to the map of affiliation than that of nationality.
YouTube Channel
Finally, from the EO AFRICA RDF YouTube channel we can see the interest in the webinars offered by the project, with a clear favorite, the webinar Flood Mapping with Sentinel 1 data which has over 7 thousand views.
The illustrations on this page were create by Ivan Oliveira with support of Nicu Stancioi and Diana Chavarro Rincon with data extracted in March 2025 from the EO AFRICA RDF and the EO AFRICA RDF Learning Management System and processed in Microsoft PowerBI.