CopernicusOpenSchools on geodata, satellite facilities and EO services training

The general aim of this Action is to provide a set of training and education activities on the use of the services, information and data produced and made available by the Copernicus Programme along with the knowledge and tools needed for this purpose, such as basic remote sensing and geo information principles and GIS and ICT platforms. The specific aim of this Action is to prepare, deliver and assess a cycle of training events, each of them being named as Copernicus Open School (COS, along with the creation of a Community of practice (CP) and some massive on-line courses,innovative MOOCs plus MOODLE platform). The Action is focused on some wide thematic areas and Copernicus User Communities (CUCs) connected to them, such as on Agriculture 4.0, Precision Agriculture and Forestry, as well as, on Smart Urban Management and Resilience. However, the adopted approach can easily be applied to other different thematic areas, like those on Aquaculture and Coastal Zone Management, all strictly related to the combined use of the products of, at least, four Copernicus Core services, CLMS, EMS&EDO, C3S and CAMS, along with those of the Copernicus Sentinels constellations and Contributing Missions.

Furthermore, once that the specific thematic areas of interest has been established, maybe also focused on some more specialised topics, the COS training activities programme is predefined by a local promoting committee, participated by representatives of the authorities and administrations locally interested in the topic, including the local member of the national CA network and then established once that its content is recognised as useful and necessary by  some end users groups belonging to each of the CUCs to be involved.

The training activities, gathered together, are organised, carried out and delivered full time in a short period of three days. The program includes: an info session about geospatial approach, earth observation technology and methodology and on Copernicus programme, followed by some key and scientific speeches given by experts and lecturers under the CA coordination and about scientific, technical and operational topics to be known; a training session on the use of at least 3 Core Services; finally, an operational session developed by EO, GGI and ICT service providers dedicated to the application of commercial products to solve some simulated operational cases-