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So indeed, I will compliment the talk by Jean-Slojard from the policy side. He explained to you the policies behind these projects. I am working on the executive agency. So we are, let's say, implementing the calls and following the project throughout its entire life cycle, of course.
00:23
So I would like to really give you an overview about the project before that we have built up and we are building up to support the EuroGeo initiative. So, yeah, it starts, of course, with EuroGeo, but Jean made my life easy. So we already explained what we aim to do at EuroGeo.
00:42
So I will directly go to the portfolio that we built up in Horizon 2020. So this is an overview of all the projects that were funded within EuroGeo. So it's more than 200 million EU contribution. Yeah, of course, I will not explain all the projects. Just to say that, as you see on the left here, we have some, here you are, some focus on Poland.
01:04
Of course, this is not really in the scope of this community, I think. So I will not explain it. We have observations. So we talked about in-situ observations. So we do investments in the past because these projects are closing now. For example, Twia is led by the Theudel, as we are in the Netherlands.
01:23
I would like to show you some Dutch examples. These are building up observations in Africa, in Kenya, in Rwanda, in Uganda, and so on, and making actionable geosurfs out of these data. We have Meloa focusing on oceans. We have HyperNets setting up CalPAL sites for this, CalPAL for the sentinels, for example, in the NMAP mission of DLR.
01:44
We also had several opportunities, several approaches on citizen observatories. These have all been closed now. But for example, we observed, has still a tremendous interesting information, a cookbook published on the website. So if you are into citizen observations, please have a look. And as part of the Green Deal call, so the last call of Horizon 2020,
02:04
we had these seven projects on enabling citizens to act on climate change. The first three on top, they are, let's say, focusing on monitoring environmental observations. The PS Lifestyle and Aurora, they are more focusing on environmental impacts.
02:22
So how can we support citizens to go to a more sustainable lifestyle? For example, crowdsourcing of PV cells in universities, for example, in Madrid. And we also have some projects here, the two bottom, on educational learning, on lifelong learning, on climate, and on sustainable aspects.
02:46
Now, this is the overview, but I would like to focus on E-shape and here on these commercial services. Why, I will explain in a second. So first, E-shape. E-shape is the flagship project that we have establishing EuroGeo.
03:01
So this started in April 2019. It will run until April next year. And it was really leveraging, comparing this Geo's data and supporting European industry, downstream industry, to work with this data and to make something useful out of it in line with the priorities of Geo. So let's say showcasing what Europe is capable of doing,
03:23
but also leveraging from what Geo is offering to us. It's a big project, 68 partners. They have these seven showcases, as you see below, agriculture, health, renewable energy, and so on. And all over, they have 37 pilots and they have horizontal activities.
03:41
Now I will explain what it does by just giving you an example of the agriculture showcase in the next slide. So this is, I could have taken another one, but I just have chosen for agriculture. We have the seven pilots here. So they are working closely with Ian Jarvis on GeoGlam to support their activities. They are, for example, they have a pilot on the cap,
04:03
so using machine learning to support, I'd say, the continuous monitoring for the new cap. Vegetation index copy insurance in Ethiopia is done by, again, Dutch University, and so on. Now, behind all these pilots are a mini consortium, so a few companies working together on making a service available.
04:23
And the interesting thing about eShip is that really, the project implements the spirit of Geo in the sense that companies are collaborating. You see that all these pilots here, they have common issues, which are here on the right, and they work together on it.
04:40
They try to solve each other's problems, like Thomas mentioning, you want to check for bottlenecks existing and work on that. Well, eShip is also doing this, to some extent. For example, data integration. How do you combine satellite data with in situ with other data like parcels and boundaries and so on? The community is working on that collectively. To cloud or not to cloud.
05:00
So we had the Copernicus DS in the past years, sharing experiences, what goes well, what goes wrong, and this resulted into some very good examples about using Creo DS, for example, with KO. So we have some good examples and a shared experience. Then the project was there to steer this process, I would say. So if you want to talk, you should talk to Marie-François
05:22
from OGC, who is leading this activity in eShip. Co-design. So there was a question before to Tom, how can you make sure that users and your providers, you link, you understand each other, users know what you do. Co-design is, of course, part of the solution. And interesting idea of eShip is that they started
05:42
from a co-design methodology implemented by Min Paris Tech in France, the coordinator, which was implemented, for example, the automotive industry. But they applied it here in the project on Earth observation, and every pilot, every of the 37 pilots needed to exercise this co-design framework. And now they are going to see how they can make this
06:02
exploitable by co-design as a service within GEO, who knows what the future will be. So it's not only about making sure that an application is really fitted to the needs of the user, but also looking about how the operation we want to run this solution. For example, some users, they might need a platform with a UI.
06:21
Some might need an API. Some might need automated push of data. Commercial expectation. Each of the pilots at eShip was forced to make a business plan, well-guided, well-supported from the project. And also, and this was a common issue, of course, we already discussed about it, good reference data, good in-situ data. And they made a very good attempt.
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And this was led by Wageningen University here, the AgroStack database, where they combined, they tried to harmonize various time-situ in-situ data for agriculture. And they make it available in a database with a common API. And then they built a visualization tool on top so you can drill down, so you can filter, for example,
07:01
here, locations with phenology data on my maze. And you can then filter down and visualize the time-situ data. That's about eShip. So that's the pilots. And then, of course, horizontally, there are all the different aspects, like the co-design explained, the support for cloud, to cloud or not to cloud, the user uptake.
07:22
So if you want to bridge the gap between the use and yourself, please don't go only to the living planet and the EGU in Vienna. But also go to the fairs and the exhibitions where the industry is. If you want to do agriculture applications, go to the agro industry fairs and go there
07:42
and explain what earth precipitation can mean for them. So it's about user uptake. Also, sustainability of pilot, they have a lot of things that they will put on the website for support of the community. Something what I also expect from projects like Open Earth Monitor and EU4U is that they do not only deliver their results, their impacts
08:01
as written in the proposal, but if you see, because you're all big projects, if you see best practices appearing, also make sure that these are getting known and communicated to the community. One example is here at eShape. They had to make 37 data management plans. And they made a self-assessment to supporting this
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so that each pilot could do a self-assessment of their compliancy towards the geo data management principles and the fair principles of our house in 2020. And they made this tool, and they will now publish it on the geo website. And maybe this becomes a DMP as a sub. So also make sure that it's best practices that they are being exploited.
08:42
So eShape, check the website, check their Twitter account, and as they will be publishing their results in the next months because they end down in April next year. OK, that's eShape. Then very quickly, also some other projects. I will not go in detail because I don't have the time, I think.
09:02
But just to say that these are five examples of projects trying to make a commercial service out of preparing this and other data. And Vision is focusing on the cap. So they have paying agencies and also controlling bodies from the organic farming in the consortium.
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And again, they also struggle with how do we access Sentinel data combined within C2 data and apply machine learning onto it. So certainly, the two projects on the table here today, they can bring assets to them as well. By the way, they are also, let's say, developing a data cube. So also here, they can link with assets
09:40
which are like Sentinel and so on. They are certainly interested in that. We have VD geos focusing on the wine industry. They are combining a lot of very high, the genius set of data. They are going from in-field measurements with cameras in the vineyards through climate models, Sentinel data, Meteo data, whatever, farm input as well, and so on, irrigation and fermentation and so on.
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And they then make a management system for the wine producing companies. Next slide, also very interesting. If successful, they will combine the offerings of several service providers, V2, DHI, Deimos, on agriculture and on forestry. And with the spirit that sometimes a user
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needs a solution where the different service providers have part of the puzzle. And they want to make a platform where all the service providers are connected, and the user can, or somebody can, make a solution on the platform, making use of all the different products from different service providers. So joining forces.
10:40
And let's see how this can work. Joint expectation is not easy, but here again, they will try. They will make an ego star. They also have the Terra Doux elite platform that's supporting this. So also the cloud bursting is supported. And maybe this opens up opportunities for you as well to connect to them. And because some of the partners here
11:01
for open EO, open earth monitor, have also some assets on agriculture and forestry. There is also SAFES working on forest fires, emergencies, there is also assistant tech. It's very interesting. They have a vessel with a lot of in situ measurements, and they measure their fuel. And the aim is to make tuna fishery more sustainable. So less fuel, more sustainable fisheries,
11:24
reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, and so on. So again, I just want to say, these are five projects that have a very good idea what they want to build, but still, I mean, they do a good job, but still they have some issues on exploiting the data, and clearly the advances in these two projects can help them,
11:41
and we should share each other's results. Now last, so that was Horizon 2020. That's what we have today. But of course, we also have Horizon YouTube already there for two years. This is a structure, I guess you all know it by heart, because you wrote the winning proposal. So we are in cluster six. Just to say that in the autumn of 2021,
12:02
we had the first call where we start that's now eight projects, which starts all now in June and November, investment of 44 million of EU contribution. And we had three calls that I would like to quickly demonstrate. So that was one call on biodiversity.
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That is the reddish call here. That's the one from open earth model and EU for EU. So tools to support the uptake and accessibility and explore the beauty of EU data. And then we had here the European Green Deal database. So just quickly showing you the point of the project. So of course, I cannot share details because the projects are being started now.
12:41
On biodiversity, we have to be useful, led by Technical University in Denmark, focusing on sea. So EmoNet is a clear partner in that. We have a garden broader in scope led by Sea-Rats. Then on the call where you responded, there are the two projects, but status will also detail the EU for EU later on.
13:04
And then we had finally the Green Deal data space. So you are making tools. The Green Deal is called for making the data spaces. We have one AD4GD, but Juan is there. So he's the coordinator, so from CREAF, working on biodiversity, climate change,
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pollution, focusing much on the standardization. OGC is an important partner here, but as well, cloud computing, HPC, and so on. We have then FerriCube, which is led by NILU in Norway, which is more than fair data and also Internet of Things
13:40
and Citizen Observed, Citizen Science, and so on. And then finally, we have usage focusing on urban data, climate data, but every urban data, and also working on machine learning, artificial intelligence, and so on, data technology. Final slide, and then I'm done. We also have now, we are not preparing the next grant agreements,
14:01
so we had to call in spring this year. We will fund six projects with a total value of 20 million on in-situ measurements in how to reach areas, and areas for critical health. We will launch three new projects on citizen observations, total value of 14 million,
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and we will launch two projects on one health, so using earth observation for one health, so human health, plant health, soil health, animal health, one on early warning for mosquito-borne diseases, and one more on broader research. So a lot to come. I can, of course, not share the details, because this is still confidential information.
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So that's it, and I just want to invite you also for the EuroGeo workshop in Athens, 7th to 9th of December. EuroGeo will be five years. Also, we will look how can we do better, what governance should we do in the next five years, and so this is, of course, the place for you to connect with all the other projects,
15:00
and so let's meet again in December. I hope so. Thanks, Erwin. In the meantime, I think we have a poll from Erwin on his talk. He's asking, what is the most important aspect
15:23
to work on during a project to ensure that the results are actually used after the project? So this is another word cloud. Feel free to submit words multiple times, and let's see. Yeah, for me, this is the most important aspect. I mean, you don't do things for yourself.
15:41
You do things that you won't have impact, so people need to use at the end of your results. You're all competitors, so it's not easy. So what do you do from the start of your project to make this happen? That would really be curious to learn about. Great. What are we seeing? OK, fairness is a big theme of the day.
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Reproducibility, this is great. And we'll, once again, we're going to save these results and publish them and make sure they're available to you all. A response to any of these that are coming up? No, no, I'm just looking at it. Yeah, happy to see co-development team, co-design.
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OK, an enormous amount of great things. Capacity building is, of course, very important. I mean, making sure that people know and understand what you do, that it's not only accessible, but it's ready to use. And that's the effect on me.
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But the message is, please have this in mind from the start of the project that you don't think you need to make sure that your results are being taken up. Great. Thanks, everyone, for your responses. We have a couple questions we'll put up. I think maybe we have time for one or two.
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Tom, can you see what the most recent ones are? This one closing the gap. I think we got that one. Can you put up the most recent question?
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Or can you see it? Which one? Oh, all right. What is your favorite EU-funded project so far? That's a good one to end on before our coffee break. Well, that's unfair to ask me. I mean, for me, any project has its own good things. A lot of the partners are here right now, too. No, no. But just to say, I mean, you know, Geo, for me, it has a lot of value.
17:41
It's really the collaborative spirit of Geo working together, sharing insights. I mean, we know that you are all competitors, but still you are all facing the same issues. And as you said, competition for the time being is done, and you are now to collaborate. So for me, of course, E-shaped, I mean, it's a big project. And they really did a marvelous job
18:02
to bring the community together and to make good results, shareable, and explored. And I hope, because, again, here, we have two big coaches on the side, Open Earth Monitor and EU4U, that you collaborate in the same spirit. I mean, the next step, of course, is Destination Earth, have an impact there with ECMWF and EU4U. You are excellently placed on doing that.
18:22
Also, as Tom explained, you have open data at the forefront of your ideas. You have great companies on board that have impact today, that can enrich their portfolio, that can make their tools stronger. So please be open, share your results. This doesn't mean that you have to give it all for free,
18:41
but be open and exploitation at the end. That's the game. So E-shaped, but I hope that Open Earth Monitor and EU4U will take it over. And there's a lot of other projects. I mean, I should put a slide again with your view and build it. Amazing. Thank you so much.
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