FPCUP - Working Group Africa

📣 Webinar #4 : Present Funding Opportunities to African community 🔖 the tentative agenda! https://lnkd.in/d-qKnPuA Registrations are open: https://lnkd.in/dKBnwQYB GMES Africa, PRAXI Network, EUMETSAT, European Space Agency - ESA, EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme, European Commission

The webinar "Earth Observation data for agriculture monitoring in the Global South", took place on the 13th February 2025, as part of the GMES & Africa and FPCUP WG Africa collaboration. We would like to thank 🙏 the ~25 participants that made this event a success! You can find the presentation of Dr. Agnès BEGUE, agricultural engineer and PhD in remote sensing applied to agriculture, by clicking here: 👉https://shorturl.at/VKfzv Learn more about the GMES & Africa program and the FPCUP Working Group Africa self-training Copernicus program, by clicking 👉https://lnkd.in/de6zNjHE

📣 Online training workshop ‘Marine Data for Africa’, organized by Copernicus Marine Service Participate on the next Training Workshop dedicated to the Africa continent, on 03&05 March 2025! An event that aims to engage the marine communities of all around the world, and share its ocean data products and knowledge. Jupyter Notebooks, R exercices and QGIS demos will be especially developed for this topic. Registrations and more information: https://lnkd.in/eVtmtCHS

📣 NEW WEBINAR ON ‘EARTH OBSERVATION DATA FOR AGRICULTURE MONITORING IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH' Date: 13/02/2025, Time: 11:30am - 1:30pm CET As part of the GMES and Africa and FPCUP WG Africa, Agnès Bégué (Agricultural engineer, PhD in remote sensing applied to agriculture) will be leading a webinar entitled ‘Earth Observation data for agriculture monitoring in the Global South’. This presentation will cover 3 areas of application:  1. Precision farming Large-scale agriculture 2. Agricultural land use mapping Cropland mapping Cropping system mapping Smallholder agriculture in the tropics Agroforestry Cropping practices 3. Food security Agricultural statistics Early warning systems Vegetation anomalies  If you are interested, please register using this form. An email will then be sent to you as soon as possible with the information you need to attend this event. https://lnkd.in/d5nZ7j66 https://lnkd.in/d5nZ7j66

FPCUP WG Africa participation in the EO for Africa Symposium 2024 Some of the WG Africa partners were participating to the EO for Africa Symposium from 23 to 26 September 2024 at ESA-ESRIN in Frascati, Italy. This symposium was co-organized by ESA, the African Union Commission, the African Association of Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE), the European Commission, NASA, and EUMETSA. A poster on WG Africa activities was presented during the symposium. The symposium was also a great opportunity to meet researchers, engineers and stakeholders from both continents. https://lnkd.in/dhTvNd69

FPCUP WG Africa online workshop with GMES & Africa and GAAN We are excited to announce the successful organization of the GMES&Africa- FPCUP WG Africa –GAAN (Academia Network) Workshop, that was held online on 15 October 2024.This significant event brought together the WG Africa mentors & trainers with GAAN members and GMES & Africa consortia, with the aim to create links and identify areas of collaboration in the framework of the Copernicus EO Programme. Many thanks to all for your dedicated participation!

📣 Call for Africans colleagues to participate to our joint on line training program with @GMES & Africa For more info 👇 https://lnkd.in/dsDTqwQe https://lnkd.in/dkXyJnDx https://lnkd.in/dnghvi_a

FPCUP WG Africa | 3rd Workshop, Rome The 3rd FPCUP WG Africa Workshop was successfully held on the 26th and 27th of September 2024 in Rome and online. The meeting was attended by the European partners of the Project. Specifically, the topic of the meeting included presentations and discussions about the future actions and goals of the program for the final year of its implementation. Many thanks to our Italian partners for their hospitality at the Ispra - Istituto Superiore per la Protezione e la Ricerca Ambientale and for suggesting Osteria pesce fritto e baccalà for our dinner. We all had a great time!

The Activities of the ‘FPCUP WG Africa’ Action were presented (oral presentation and poster) by Maria (Marietta) Papakonstantinou (BEYOND EO Centre NOA) and Dimitra Tsoutsou (PRAXI Network) in the 2nd FPCUP-Workshop titled “Strengthen Copernicus: What can we learn from FPCUP User Uptake Activities?”. The WS that took place on 10-11/09/2024 at DLR in Bonn attended by almost 80 participants, representing 45 institutions from 22 countries. During the event, examples of different Copernicus user uptake activities were shown, challenges were discussed, and visions for future dissemination of results were identified. https://lnkd.in/g8nQvjQm

📣 We are happy to share with you the 3rd FPCUP WG Africa newsletter! https://lnkd.in/dUSsWviS