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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200709
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200912
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SUMMARY:LandSense Innovation Challenge
DESCRIPTION:The Challenge targets individuals\, web-entrepreneurs\, start-ups and SMEs coming from all participating Horizon 2020 countries\, to present innovative IT solutions addressing one of the three LandSense domains: \n1. Urban Landscape Dynamics; \n2. Agricultural Land Use; \n3. Forest and Habitat Monitoring; \nThe challenge focuses on using data streams coming from the LandSense Citizen Observatory\, the Sentinel Hub Service or other relevant EO data sources to design novel LULC solutions for a range of applications within the selected domains. \nSelected LandSense Challenge finalists will have the opportunity to pitch their ideas at the Third International ECSA Conference 2020 in Trieste\, Italy. Please note that registration for the ECSA Conference is not required for participation in this public challenge. However\, all finalists are encouraged to attend the conference and share with this growing community of citizen science practitioners. \nTake part and win!\nThe teams with the best pitches will receive: \n1st prize \n\nA grand prize of 2\,000 EUR\nA 1-year subscription to Sentinel Hub Enterprise\, worth 5\,000 EUR\, provided by SINERGISE\nOnline business coaching and mentorship services provided by the LandSense team\n\n2nd prize \n\nA grand prize of 1\,000 EUR\nOnline business coaching and mentorship services provided by the LandSense team\n\n3rd prize \n\nA grand prize of 500 EUR\nOnline business coaching and mentorship services provided by the LandSense team\n\nTo apply or to find more details about the call\, please visit here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/landsense-innovation-challenge-save-the-date/
CATEGORIES:COs events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200903
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SUMMARY:Geospatial Sensing 2020
DESCRIPTION:Earth observation networks\, e.g. in-situ sensors and remote sensing systems\, deliver a multitude of data capturing the state of our environment. These data sets are highly valued by scientists and stakeholders from a variety of domains and backgrounds such as hydrology\, marine sciences\, traffic management\, environmental monitoring\, energy supply or smart city systems. An active research and development community works on new approaches to share\, manage\, discover\, analyze\, and visualize geospatial sensor data. The Geospatial Sensing Conference provides a platform for scientists\, developers and users to examine current challenges\, present best practices and discuss future developments. \nThis virtual event will take place from August 31 – September 2\, 2020. It continues the Geospatial Sensor Webs workshops and conferences that began in 2013. The focus ‘From Sensing to Understanding our World’ includes sensor data interpretation\, analysis and visualization\, tools and infrastructures for sharing geospatial sensor data\, and novel sensor platforms. \nThe 52°North Open Innovation Network invites researchers\, software developers and practitioners to submit abstracts as presentation proposals. This year’s program includes an EDC Forum session\, which particularly invites members of Esri’s EDC community to present and discuss their work in the field of Geospatial Sensing. \nThe abstract should be 200 – 300 words and include title\, authors and an outline of the presentation. Abstracts can be submitted as a pdf file to geospatialsensing@52north.org by June 14\, 2020. All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee and accepted on the basis of content\, available space\, and overall program balance. The authors of accepted abstracts will be notified by July 14\, 2020.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/geospatial-sensing-2020/
CATEGORIES:Other events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200831
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200903
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SUMMARY:6th International Conference on Big Data for Official Statistics
DESCRIPTION:The 6th International Conference on Big Data for official statistics took place from 31 August — 2 September 2020 as a virtual event. The Conference was organized by Statistics Korea (KOSTAT) and the United Nations Global Working Group (GWG) on Big Data for Official Statistics. The main theme of the Conference was “How can Big Data help in the COVID-19 response?” Related themes were: “How can Big Data support the monitoring of the progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals?” and “The need for global data collaboration on global emerging issues”. Find out more about the conference here. \nWeObserve partners participated in session 7 “Using Big Data for SDGs” of the conference\, presenting the activities of the WeObserve ‘Citizen Observatories and SDGs Community of Practice‘  towards mapping citizen science contributions to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. \nWatch again the session recording from here and download the WeObserve presentation.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/6th-international-conference-on-big-data-for-official-statistics/
CATEGORIES:Events,Other events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20200903T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20200903T174500
DTSTAMP:20260503T123945
CREATED:20201001T073626Z
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SUMMARY:Citizen Science for the UN Sustainable Development Goals at ESOF2020
DESCRIPTION:The 9th EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) took place on 2 – 6 Septemeber 2020\, in Trieste\, Italy\, bringing together thousands of leading thinkers\, innovators\, policy makers\, journalists and educators from more than 90 countries\, to discuss current and future breakthroughs in contemporary science. WeObserve organised a session in the context of ESOF (Septemeber 3)\, focusing on the contribution of citizen science to SDG monitoring and implementation as part of the activities of the WeObserve “Citizen Observatories and SDGs Community of Practice (SDGs CoP).  \nSession details \nThe 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development intertwines social\, economic and environmental targets to address the world’s most pressing challenges. To achieve these goals\, good governance informed by accurate\, accessible\, timely and comprehensive data is needed\, as well as a collective\, inter-connected effort from all levels of society. Even though data availability and quality have improved over the years\, there are still major gaps in the supply of more and reliable information that feed into policies with desirable outcomes for SDG achievement. For instance\, 68% of the environmental SDG indicators lack sufficient data (UN Environment\, 2019). Enabling an environment to facilitate the integration of traditional sources of data (e.g. administrative records\, statistical surveys\, etc.) and new data approaches such as citizen science\, public participation in scientific research\, is crucial to tackle this issue. Citizen science can complement traditional and new data sources (e.g. earth observations\, etc.)\, enable active citizen involvement in the SDG processes and ensure government accountability.  \nThis session outlined the ongoing efforts of the citizen science community on the contribution of citizen science to SDG monitoring and implementation such as the “Citizen Observatories and SDGs Community of Practice (SDGs CoP)” as part of the European Commission funded WeObserve project. The SDGs CoP brought together citizen science practitioners\, researchers and representatives of UN custodian agencies\, broader data communities and other key actors in the field to develop an understanding about how to demonstrate the value of citizen science for SDG achievement. The session also drew on examples of citizen science initiatives that are contributing or could contribute to the SDG progress and provided recommendations on collaborations between citizens\, governments\, private sectors and intergovernmental organizations for design and actions to achieve the SDGs.  \nYou can read and download the presentation here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/citizen-science-for-the-un-sustainable-development-goals-at-esof2020/
CATEGORIES:Events,Other events,WO events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200906
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200912
DTSTAMP:20260503T123945
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SUMMARY:ECSA Conference 2020
DESCRIPTION:The ECSA 2020 conference – Encounters in citizen science was held exclusively online (6-11 September)\, and only registered participants could have access to the conference sessions. The program is available here. \nStemming from the project activities\, WeObserve partners organised the following session contributions in the context of the program: \n  \n\nCitizen science and the SDGs II: https://vimeo.com/451829764/bfd6d8a3ab\n\nThe contribution of citizen science to the monitoring of the UN Sustainable Development Goals \nPresenters: Dilek Fraisl\, Linda See\nSummary: The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a call to action to tackle the world’s greatest challenges. The key question is how to achieve the SDGs when there are large data gaps or the data are not comprehensive enough to make timely decisions to enhance people’s wellbeing. This session will demonstrate the value of citizen science for the SDGs including examples of how citizen science currently contributes to SDG monitoring as well as where it has the potential to contribute. Recommendations for how citizen science data can be integrated into the official statistics used for SDG reporting will be provided. \n  \n\nNetworks and communities of practice: https://vimeo.com/451830806/50fd13737c\n\nPractice what we preach: co-creating value with participants in communities of practice on citizen science \nPresenters: Uta Wehn\, Dilek Fraisl\, Joan Maso \nOnto new horizons: learnings from the WeObserve project to strengthen awareness\, acceptability and sustainability of citizen observatories in Europe \nPresenters: Gerid Hager\nSummary: WeObserve delivers the first European-wide Citizen Observatory (CO) knowledge platform to share and highlight best practices and to identify and address challenges to inform practitioners\, policy makers and funders of (future) COs. This presentation aims to discuss key insights and recommendations acquired from the WeObserve project\, to inform the Horizon Europe research and innovation programme (under Pillar II: Global Challengesand European Industrial Competitiveness and activities for “Widening participation and strengthening the European Research Area”)\, as well as other funding programmes and CO practitioners more generally. \nPresentation slides available at: https://zenodo.org/record/4017257#.X1iYNmczZTZ \n  \n\nGlobal perspectives on Citizen Science and Open Science (Side Event)\n\nCitizen Science (CS) and Open Science (OS) are emerging global movements that are becoming more\nsignificant and layered in regard to key themes\, dynamics\, and shared characteristics. Now\, there is an important opportunity for clarifying key synergies and opportunities for alignment moving forward.\nThe United Nations Educational\, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is developing a global Recommendation on Open Science to be released in 2021. As a legally binding instrument that applies to all UN Member states\, the Recommendation seeks to help shape the future of open science from a global public policy perspective. In May 2020\, UNESCO invited citizen science practitioners to collaborate in the process of developing their Recommendation. To ensure ongoing input and information exchange from global citizen science communities a Community of Practice (CoP) of the Citizen Science Global Partnership (CSGP) was formed\, with the particular intention of drawing on knowledge from the broadest citizen science base to support and inform a broad and holistic open science agenda.\nThis session offered the background to this initiative from UNESCO and described the first steps of the CoP. In addition\, lightning talks from different practitioners working at the nexus of citizen science and open science were featured. The session concluded with a roundtable discussion to collaboratively identify key considerations and next steps for the common future of CS and OS agendas.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/ecsa-conference-2020/
LOCATION:Trieste\, Italy\, Italy
CATEGORIES:Other events,WO events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200907
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200909
DTSTAMP:20260503T123945
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SUMMARY:AmeriGEOSS Symposium 2020
DESCRIPTION:The 2020 Americas Symposium aims to bring communities together to ​identify the synergies ​and paths toward collaboration ​​among​ regional efforts related to ​the integration of​ Earth Observations\, Geographic\, Statistical and other information. The main objectives of the Symposium are to: \n\nImprove coordination and dialog between the Member States and relevant international organizations to share experience in the application of Earth Observations\, Geographic\, and Statistical information to establish better practices\, adoption and use of technologies to support the decision-making process.\nIncrease the Member States’ capacity to develop and establish user-driven mechanisms for efficient management and use of Earth observations\, Geographic and Statistical information.\nEstablish relationships and cooperation mechanisms with other programs to promote the integration of earth observations\, geographic\, and statistical information to address with a comprehensive approach to regional and national issues.\n\nWeObserve participated to the Symposium presenting the results of the systematic review that was conducted regarding the contribution of citizen-science to the Sustainable Development Goals monitoring.  This activity was realised by members of the WeObserve SDGs Community of Practice. \nYou may watch again the video of the presentation here. \nAdditionally\, all the recorded Symposium presentations can be found here. \n 
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/amerigeoss-symposium-2020/
CATEGORIES:Other events,WO events
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200914
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200922
DTSTAMP:20260503T123945
CREATED:20200913T160718Z
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SUMMARY:116TH OGC Member Meeting
DESCRIPTION:The 116th OGC Member Meeting will be organised as virtual event including a broad range of meetings and topics being discussed. The Citizen Science Domain Working Group (DWG) will organise a session on September 14th\, 8:20 AM – 9:00 AM (EDT) discussing topics stemming from activities of Citizen Observatories as well as of the WeObserve Community of Practice on interoperability and standards for Citizen Observatories. In particular the following presentations are foreseen: \n\nCitizen Science and Personal Data Protection – The LandSense Approach | Andreas Matheus (Secure Dimensions)\nPracticalities and challenges related to an AQ citizen science project in Thessaloniki\, Greece | Kostas Karatzas (auth.gr)\nSecond phase of the CitSci Interoperabiliyt Experiment report | Joan Masó (UAB-CREAF)\n\nMore details about the OGC meeting and the participation to the Citizen Science DWG session can be found here.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/116th-ogc-member-meeting/
CATEGORIES:Other events,WO events
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20200930T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Moscow:20200930T181500
DTSTAMP:20260503T123945
CREATED:20200723T091822Z
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SUMMARY:Tackle Odour Pollution with OdourCollect app
DESCRIPTION:Odour pollution is the second reason for citizens’ complaints after noise\, across Europe. Frequent exposure to odour is associated with headache\, stress and respiratory problems. Odour nuisance is an indicator of larger environmental issues\, such as poor waste management or polluted water. \nOdourCollect app is a citizen science observatory for the citizens to monitor odour pollution. Being aware of this pollution empowers us to press the goverments to design odour pollution control measures at local\, national and global levels. \nDuring the webinar\, the participants will learn why it is important to measure odour pollution\, how citizen science can be an ally to monitor it and how can participate in OdourCollect project! \nAgenda:\n\nWhy is it important to measure odour pollution?\nCitizen science as an ally to monitor odour nuisance\nOdourCollect project: how does it work\, how can you participate?\nQuestions\n\nWhere?\nFrom home. Webinar via Zoom and live on Cos4Cloud’s YouTube channel! \nThe speaker:\nRosa Arias is CEO and founder of Science for Change. She is a Chemical Engineer with more than ten years experience as innovation manager and environmental consultant in air quality\, odour pollution at industrial level\, sustainability and energy. She is the creator of the citizen science App OdourCollect that empowers citizens to tackle odour pollution. \nThe organizers:\nCos4Cloud is a project to boost citizen science technologies that will co-design and develop ten technological services to ensure the viability in the long-term of citizen science observatorie and help them reach a global scope. The services will be available in the new European Open Science Cloud (EOSC)\, a virtual space aimed at the European scientific community. In the project participate 9 citizen observatories\, among them OdourCollect. \nScience for Change tackles societal challenges affecting communities using innovative solutions based on citizen science.
URL:https://www.weobserve.eu/event/tackle-odour-pollution-with-odourcollect-app/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:COs events
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