SPACE4Cities

🌞 🔸 🔮 🔹 ❇ Come and meet us at the Barcelona Smart City Expo World Congress 5–7 November! ❇🔹 🔮🔸🌞 Our Project Coordinator Renske Martijnse - Hartikka from Forum Virium Helsinki will be at the Nordic Capitals Pavillion (Hall 3 | Level 0, Street D, Stand 71) and you can meet and greet her also at following sessions. Save the dates! 🔆 Tuesday 5 Nov at 12:35–13:15: Innovative Solutions for Smart Urban Infrastructure – Hall 3 | Tomorrow.Building Room. 🔆 Tuesday 5 Nov at 15:45–16.30: Urban Air Mobility by 5G solutions: Accelerating Drone Services – Hall 2 | Tomorrow.Mobility Agora. 🔆 Wednesday 6 Nov at 10–12: SPACE4Cities workshop for Suppliers & Cities – Room 3.17, Area CC3. Signup here: https://lnkd.in/eepnppv2 🔆 Wednesday 6 Nov at 16–16:30: Satellite data in urban planning, cities’ climate adaptation and resilience + Urban air mobility and rescue operations with drones – Nordic Capitals Pavillion (Hall 3 | Level 0, Street D, Stand 71) See you in Barcelona! 🌴 Fins aviat! Smart City Expo World Congress, #smartcity #smartmobility #satellitedata #urbanspace #drones #uam #urbanairmobility #sustainablemobility #cityplanning #urbanplanning #climateadaptation #resilience

💡 Tip to suppliers! If you plan to answer SPACE4Cities’ upcoming Call for tenders' Climate Adaptation Challenge, our colleagues from VALORADA EU can help you navigate adaptation-related Earth observation data. Whether or not you’ve ever used space data or services, subscribe to VALORADA's workshops to discover how you can use Copernicus services for local authorities! #satellitedata #climatechangeadaptation #eo #earthobservation #urbanspace #smartcity Alan Mandrillon, Aerospace Valley

📢 SPACE4Cities Workshop at Barcelona Smart City Expo World Congress Curious about what satellite data can do for your city? Or does your company have the satellite-based solution for cities? Sign up now for the SPACE4Cities workshop in Barcelona, on November 6th, during the Smart City Expo World Congress! The SPACE4Cities project is a pre-commercial procurement initiative that develops new downstream satellite applications. During the workshop, we will explore both the process and challenges that cities face, and how emerging AI and satellite technologies can help address them. The workshop is open to interested cities and potential suppliers. Join us and discover the future of satellite applications in urban environments. 📅 Date: November 6 ⏰ Time: 10:00 - 12:00 CET 📍 Venue: Fira Convention Center, Barcelona (Room 3.17, Area CC3) 🎙️ Language: English 👉 Sign up via: https://lnkd.in/eepnppv2 #SmartCities #SatelliteData #AI #UrbanInnovation #SCEWC2024 #Sustainability #Resilience Boen Groothoff, Vishruth Krishnan, Gemma Schepers, Gemeente Amsterdam, Innovatie Amsterdam InChange | formerly known as Amsterdam Smart City NSO - Netherlands Space Office, Paula Kultanen Ribas, Renske Martijnse - Hartikka, Forum Virium Helsinki, Alex Gluhak, Open & Agile Smart Cities & Communities (OASC), Alan Mandrillon, Aerospace Valley, Diederik Decroix, Thimo Thoeye, District09, Petros Podaras, Konstantinos Gournianakis, Regional Development Fund of Attica

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✨ Grazie Milano, we’ve made the most of IAC2024 before the end of our consultation!   On 14 October, SPACE4Cities attended the EU Space User Consultation Platform Plenary. During his opening statement, Christoph Kautz, Director for Satellite Navigation and Earth Observation at the European Commission, recalled that Europe needs to “become better in procurement”. As a PCP, SPACE4Cities is exactly striving to improve procurements in the EU. EUSPA - EU Agency for the Space Programme also announced the publication of the Needs and requirements report that will summarise the outcomes of the User consultation platform (UCP) conducted on 8 October in which Renske Martijnse - Hartikka, SPACE4Cities Coordinator, intervened.   The International Astronautical Congress was also the opportunity to meet with space-enabling organisations across Europe, like POLSA Polska Agencja Kosmiczna | Polish Space Agency, Agência Espacial Portuguesa, CzechInvest, EIS, Invest in Latvia, SPIRIT Slovenia Business Development Agency, Institut d'Estudis Espacials de Catalunya - IEEC and, of course, EU Space. Alan Mandrillon, Aerospace Valley, #satellitedata #urbanspace

📣 This is the last month of our Open Market Consultation! There's still time to participate: 🇬🇷 OMC webinar in Greek: 16 October at 10-11:30 EEST; both live and online. Organised by Regional Development Fund of Attica. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dRyhknAV 🇳🇱 OMC webinar in Dutch: 24 October at 13-14:00 CEST. Organised by City of Amsterdam. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dBjrrj5v 🇬🇧 3rd and final OMC webinar in English on Sustainable mobility: 25 October at 10–11:30 CET. Organised by Aerospace Valley with Forum Virium Helsinki. Register here: https://lnkd.in/er4PxCNp 🇵🇹 OMC webinar in Portuguese: 29 October at 10–11 CET. Organised by the Município de Guimarães. Register here: https://lnkd.in/dYVutyyF 🇧🇪 OMC webinar in Dutch: 5 November at 14:30–16 CET. Organised by District09 (Ghent). Register here: https://lnkd.in/emSKC3Mn 🇫🇷 OMC webinar in French. Watch the recording here: https://lnkd.in/dtb6W3fH 🌍 See our Matchmaking Tools to form a consortium: https://lnkd.in/dJjbaSEU 🌍 Read our updated Q&A's: https://lnkd.in/dm2YVvXt 🌍 Join our OMC Community on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/dRDcM8CF 🌍 Respond to our Supplier survey and influence the upcoming Call for tenders: https://lnkd.in/dJ8FrJZN #satellitedata #urbanspace #spacetechnologies #sustainablemobility #smartmobility #smartcity #cityplanning #pcp #omc #callfortenders

📣 Attention companies, research institutes & non-profits! Our third and final OMC webinar on 25 October at 10:00–11:30 CET will focus on the challenges SPACE4Cities procurer cities are facing when it comes to sustainable urban mobility. Topics will include active mobility, public transportation, dynamic use of public space and logistics management, accessibility of infrastructure and drone flights. All suppliers – be they companies, research centres or non-profit organisations – are warmly welcome! Participating in the webinar allows you to directly ask questions, anticipate procurers’ needs and to prepare for the €2.87 million call for tenders by influencing our requirements! Register now here: https://lnkd.in/er4PxCNp #satellitedata #urbanspace #sustainablemobility #smartmobility #smartcity #pcp #omc #webinar #callfortenders Alan Mandrillon, Aerospace Valley, Petros Podaras, Regional Development Fund of Attica, Município de Guimarães, City of Amsterdam, Ari Kaukiainen, Forum Virium Helsinki

🌍 Our Project Coordinator Renske Martijnse - Hartikka & Communications Manager Paula Kultanen Ribas from Forum Virium Helsinki and Project Manager Alan Mandrillon from our Expert partner company Aerospace Valley attended the European Space Agency - ESA's #URBIS24 event a few weeks ago in Frascati (Rome), to learn about the latest developments on satellite data in urban planning. 🚀 The main message of the event was that satellite data is the key to creating more sustainable cities. It helps us better understand the impacts of climate change and develop solutions to mitigate it. Satellite data offers enormous benefits for the cities, such as: 🏙️ More citizen-centric urban planning ☀️ Identifying heat islands and preparing for heat waves 🌊 Flood risk management and stormwater flood preparedness 🌳 Green space planning and urban nature monitoring 🚶♀️🚴♂️ Traffic planning and promoting sustainable mobility. These themes are also included in the challenges of our upcoming €2.8M Call for tenders! Read more in our article below! #satellitedata #urbanspace #cityplanning #urbanplanning #urbannature #greenspace #climatechange #smartcity #smartmobility

💡Our Project planner Ari Kaukiainen from Forum Virium Helsinki gave a great presentation of SPACE4Cities, our mission and upcoming €2.8M call for tenders and Pre-commercial procurement as an innovation tool at GeoForum Finland's Summit today at Aalto University's Dipoli. #satellitedata #urbanspace #pcp

💡 Yesterday 2 October, Catalina Rodriguez, Deputy Director for Space Affairs at Aerospace Valley, presented SPACE4Cities as part of her presentation “Aerospace Valley initiatives for environmental risks and prevention: SCALE, SPACE4CITIES, PCP-WISE”, stressing the needs of SPACE4Cities cities regarding climate adaptation like heavy rain and flood resilience.   💡 Today 3 October, Aerospace Valley will also showcase demonstrations of application services to NEREUS regions and participants. These space-based applications address urban resilience, coastal zones, air quality and the maintenance of water networks.   Related presentations: ▶ Salvina Sist - Head of Spatial Planning Directorate and Carlo Masetto - GIS Specialist at Spatial Planning Directorate (Veneto, Italy): “Monitoring Flood Events in Veneto with Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 Satellite Images” ▶ Arnaud Ceyte - Satellite applications business manager and GIS project manager, CEREMA (DTer Occitanie): “How large-scale urban heat islands data can help to anticipate the need for cooling networks in French cities?” ▶ Andreas Kazantzidis – Professor, University of Patras (Greece) - "New challenges in solar energy resource and forecasting" ▶ Olivier Liandrat - Head of Innovation, REUNIWATT, “Satellite observation for a safe & massive integration of solar energy on the grid”   Other related SPACE4Cities use cases: ▶ 2.2 Balancing grid, act on wind & solar imbalance (Amsterdam): The variability and intermittency of wind and solar power pose challenges for energy grid stability, infrastructure planning, optimal turbine and solar panel placement, and energy storage management. ▶ 3.2 Climate risk with digital twin (Helsinki): Difficulties in predicting sea level rise, floods, temperature changes. Utilise digital twin and 3D model of public space for advanced city planning and modelling disaster preparedness.