[gmes.info] The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Italy, hosted the first G-MOSAIC User Workshop on 23-25 June 2010. The event gathered representatives from institutions and organisations involved in security-related activities, and aimed at encouraging interaction between relevant stakeholders in the field of security and G-MOSAIC consortium partners, as well as within the Users Community.
The pre-operational security service of GMES is currently provided through the FP7 project G-MOSAIC. The first G-MOSAIC User Workshop took place at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission in Ispra, Lago Maggiore, Italy on 23-25 June 2010. The event aimed at increasing awareness about the value of Earth Observation data for security applications, enlarging the knowledge and upgrading the capacities of new technologies for geo-information products, as well as showing the added value of the GMES security service for the decision making and managing actions.
The workshop was intended to gather representatives from institutions and organisations involved in security-related activities, European institutions, national ministries of EU member states, intelligence centres, armed forces, international along with national civil organisations, NGOs in particular.
The main objective was to encourage interaction and fruitful dialogue between security stakeholders and G-MOSAIC consortium partners, as well as within the Users Community itself.
On Wednesday, 23 June, the programme focused on G-MOSAIC in the framework of the EU Security topics. On 24 June the programme included a training activity in which five parallel sessions, in five security domains, took place. The domains of interest were: Natural resources and conflicts; Migration and Border monitoring; Nuclear and Treaties monitoring; Critical Assets; Crisis Management and Assessment.
On 25 June a follow-up of the training sessions took place, together with a presentation of the final conclusions of the workshop itself.
This first G-MOSAIC User Workshop is framed within the set of actions addressed to the G-MOSAIC Users Community to gain a deeper and global understanding of all the GMES security related services and to provide hands-on experience of the tools developed by the partners.
More information at:
http://www.gmes-gmosaic.eu/home/programme.html
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