EO4GEO aimed to bridge the skills gap between the supply and demand of education and training in the space/geospatial sectors, fostering the uptake and integration of space/geospatial data and services in a broad range of application domains.This high level and strategic document proposes a vision & mission and defines the goals that will guide the definition of a long-term action plan to address the skills needed by the sector.
The Space/ Geoinformation Sector Skills Strategy is a mechanism for leadership aiming to develop the capacity and skills on Earth Observation and Geoinformation by fostering the uptake and integration of Copernicus data and services in end-user applications.
It identifies 8 goals that are used as a basis for the definition of a long -term action plan (LTAP) to address the EO*GI skills needed by the sector. The strategy proposes skills development recommendations to unleash students’ and workers’ potential to become the EO*GI sector’s innovators of tomorrow and link with adopters in other industry end-user sectors (agriculture, energy, transport, local government, maritime, etc.)
Resource available: Space / Geoinformation Sector Skills Strategy