Joint Final Event of the Copernicus Academy & Relays projects

A hitchhiker’s guide to digitalisation in Europe The detour through Space

Moderation: Nathalie Stéphenne (Service Public de Wallonie) Registration: https://bit.ly/3e0Coa9 Peter Zeil (Spatial Services, CopHub.AC)

Time Description Who 09:45 Welcome & Introduction to the civilian use of Earth ▪ Nathalie Stéphenne (Service Public de Wallonie) Observation in European regions ▪ Peter Zeil (Spatial Services, CopHub.AC) Life, the Universe and Everything 10:00 Women in Copernicus ▪ Nathalie Stéphenne (Service Public de Wallonie) Making women in the Copernicus ecosystem more visible 10:05 Introductory addresses ▪ Florian Herrmann, MdL (Head of the Bavarian ▪ Overview of the activities and needs of the European State Chancellery, State Minister for Federal and regions regarding Geo-Information European Affairs and Media, Member of the European ▪ Offers to support the activities of the regional Committee of the Regions, Region Bavaria) administrations by Earth Observation/Copernicus ▪ Franz Schausberger (European Committee of the Regions, Region ) 10:30 Introduction to the concept and functions of ▪ Julien Turpin (, DG DEFIS) Copernicus Relays and the Copernicus Academy for the implementation of the European Space Strategy 10:45 Achievements and offers to support regions ▪ Peter Zeil (Spatial Services, CopHub.AC) And Another Thing

10:55 CopHub.AC - supporting the Copernicus Academy ▪ Barbara Riedler (, CopHub.AC) 11:05 CoRdiNet - supporting the Copernicus Relays ▪ Vidar Lien (Institute of Marine Research, CoRdiNet) 11:15 Break Video / Music The Restaurant at the End of the Universe Digitalisation & Big Data from Space ▪ Nathalie Stéphenne (Service Public de Wallonie) Mostly harmless 11:35 Roundtable discussions ▪ Andres Jaadla (European Committee of the Regions, The Way forward - how to design supporting measures Region Estonia, tbc) for the regions to better benefit from Earth Observation/ ▪ Christoph Schröder (University of Malaga, Copernicus in decision making CopHub.AC) ▪ Roya Ayazi (NEREUS, CoRdiNet) ▪ Bernardo de Bernardinis (Copernicus Academy coordinator Italy) ▪ Julien Turpin (European Commission, DG DEFIS) Recipes for the successful digitalisation by Earth ▪ Monica Miguel-Lago (EARSC, CopHub.AC) Observation/Copernicus applications throughout ▪ Antonio Tabasco Cabezas (GMV, CoRdiNet) European regions and industry sectors (Destination Earth, ▪ Francisco LWFM Macedo (Government Azores) New Space) ▪ Dimitrios Papadakis (Evenflow, CopHub.AC) ▪ Phil Monbet (Pôle Mer Bretagne Atlantique) 12:45 Outlook ▪ Nathalie Stéphenne (Service Public de Wallonie) So Long, Thanks for All the Fish ▪ Peter Zeil (Spatial Services, CopHub.AC) 12:50 Conclusion ▪ Stefan Lang (University of Salzburg, CopHub.AC) ▪ Jürgen Vogel (bavAIRia , CoRdiNet) 0 | 9:45 - 13:00 h | Location 5 Nov. 202 : Virtual

These projects have received fundings from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programm under grant agreement No. 821911 & 821952