GEO Global Forum 2025 “The Earth talks”

The activities at the EU Booth cover 43 presentations, nine round table discussions, 96 e-posters and 39 videos. It is a unique opportunity to discover concrete EO-based solutions and services delivered by EU-funded projects and initiatives. You can also discover more about the European Space Programme and the EuroGEO Secretariat.
 

MONDAY 5 MAY

10:00 - 10:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘An overview of the Copernicus Marine service’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

10:35 - 11:00​ PRESENTATIONS sessions - supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Climate’

• The SCO initiative: Earth Observation for Climate Action (Frédéric Bretar, CNES)
• HARMONIA: Introducing a Digital Urban Planning Decision Support Tool, towards More Resilient and Safer European Cities (Christos Kontopoulos, Geosystems Hellas)
• Understanding Coastal Vulnerability Through Geological and Hydrogeological Data in European Coastal Areas (Eleftheria Poyiadji, HSGME)
• PCP WISE: Pre-Commercial Procurement of Water Innovation from Space for European Climate Resilience (Melissa Campagno, G.A.C. Group)

• EO supporting Hydrology and Water Management (Silvia Puca, Italian Civil Protection)

   

13:00 - 14:00 ROUND TABLE ‘Managing Droughts, Floods, and Land Degradation in Vulnerable Regions” – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Land Cover and Land Intelligence’

This session showcases and discusses how Earth observation supports drought and flood management, as well as land degradation monitoring and SDG reporting, across Africa, the Mediterranean, and Small Island Developing States.

• Vincent Gabaglio (EUMETSAT) - moderator
• Cristnia Tarantino (CNR-IIA)
• Silvia Puca (Italian Civil Protection Department)
• Claire Dufau (CLS)
• César Luis Garcia (Apacheta, GEO-LDN)​
• Gabriel Daldegan (Conservation International
   

15:00 - 15:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Explore the Copernicus Coastal and Arctic Hubs’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

15:40 - 16:00​ PRESENTATIONS session – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Marine’

• Sargassum Information Hub (Audrey Hasson, GEO Blue Planet EU Office, hosted by Mercator Ocean Intl)
• IMDOS - Integrated Marine Debris Observing System (Daphne Lecellier, GEO Blue Planet EU Office, hosted by Mercator Ocean Intl)
• Arctic Passion Builds Arctic GEOSS (Mikko Strahlendorff    Finnish Meteorological Institute)
• Thematic and Local Twins of the Ocean (Bente Lilja Bye,    BLB)

16:00 - 16:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus Border Surveillance Service’

• Sonja Gyallay-Pap (Frontex)

17:30 EU reception at the booth (on invitation only)​

TUESDAY 6 MAY

09:30 - 10:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus Border Surveillance Service’

• Sonja Gyallay-Pap (Frontex)

10:00 - 10:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘An overview of the Copernicus Marine service’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

10:40 - 11:00​ PRESENTATIONS session – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Disasters and health’

• SENSORBITE - Intuitive Platform Using LLM for Accessing EO Data for Agriculture (Marcin Spiralski, SENSORBITE P.S.A.)
• TRANSITION - EO-Informed Agent-Based Models for Digital Twin Applications and Data-Driven policy Designation (Stelios Kotsopoulos, Neuralio AI)
• The GEO-CRADLE Enabling Mechanism in the support of informed decision making. Leveraging EuroGEO and COPERNICUS for coordinating capacity building and demonstrating the value of EO at global scale (Haris Kontoes and Alexia Tsouni, National Observatory of Athens/BEYOND)

11:00 - 11:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus for Energy’

• Stijn Vermoote/Eleftherios Mamais (ECMWF/Evenflow)

11:30 - 12:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Explore the Copernicus Coastal and Arctic Hubs’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

12:00 - 12:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘What are the Top Reasons for investing into Copernicus?’

• Hendrik Hamacher (European Space Agency)

13:00 --> 13:30 ROUND TABLE “Support the European CAP monitoring with Copernicus data and information: CLMS products and Sentinel data through CDSE” – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Agriculture’

Supporting the French Paying agency for CAP Monitoring: from DIAS to CDSE and next. Serco is supporting the French Paying Agency in its journey to use Sentinel data to monitor CAP, in order to comply to EU regulations and is going beyond by using AI for Agriculture and considering the coming impact from Climate change.

• Vincent Saleh (Serco) 

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products for smart farming and CAP monitoring at EU level

• Usue Donezar Hoyos (EEA)

13:30 - 14:00 ROUND TABLE “Challenges in engaging Earth observation communities: technology and skills development” – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Disasters and health’

The session will feature short interventions from the speakers, starting with GEANT presenting the European perspective on research connectivity infrastructure and its role in facilitating access to EO data and services, followed by ASREN highlighting challenges and opportunities for EO access across Africa through regional research and education networks (RRENs). Space4GEO Alliance will then address capacity-building and skills development gaps, showcasing coordinated actions underway. Finally, the SPACE4GEO Body of Knowledge will present tools designed to bridge the skills gap and support the community with training and workforce resources.

Panellists:

• Monica Miguel-Lago (EARSC) - moderator
• Daniela Brauner (GÉANT)
• Yousef Torman (ASREN)
• Milva Carbonaro (GISIG)
• Martyna Stelmaszczuk-Górska (University Jena)

14:00 - 14:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘What are the Top Reasons for investing into Copernicus?’

• Hendrik Hamacher (European Space Agency)

15:40 - 16:00​ PRESENTATIONS session– supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Biodiversity ecosystems and geodiversity’

• New Frontiers for Distributed Environmental Monitoring Based on an Ecosystem of Plant Seed-Like Soft Robots - I-Seed (Barbara Mazzolai, Italian Institute of Technology)
• Global Scale Land Productivity Trends at 30 m Based on Gross Primary Productivity Maps (Davide Consoli, OpenGeoHub Foundation)
• GUARDEN - Pl@ntNet platform: An image based AI  for plant species identification (Mathias Chouet, CIRAD and Antoine Affouard, INRIA)
• GUARDEN - GeoPl@ntNet Demo : Mapping habitats and biodiversity (Rémi Palard, CIRAD)

WEDNESDAY 7 MAY

09:30 - 10:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus Border Surveillance Service’

• Sonja Gyallay-Pap (Frontex)

10:00 - 10:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘An overview of the Copernicus Marine service’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

10:35 - 11:00​ PRESENTATIONS session – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Green Deal Data Spaces’

• Towards Monitoring Near Real-Time Changes of In-Situ Data (Andreas Matheus, Secure Dimensions)
• Bringing a Decentralised Approach to Trust in GEO Data from Data Spaces (Joan Maso and Andreas Matheus, CREAF)
• Digital Twins for a Connected Europe: Strengthening Cross-Border Cooperation (Patrick Knöfel, Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy)
• Big Geo Data Standards: Status, Progress, and European Contribution (Peter Baumann, Constructor University | rasdaman GmbH)
• EO4EU Platform: Discover the Practical Benefits and Functionalities Tailored to Help You Achieve Your Ambitious Environmental Goals (Stathes Hadjiefthymiades, University of Athens)

11:00 - 11:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus In-Situ Component’

• Usue Donezar (European Environment Agency)

11:30 - 12:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘The value generated by Copernicus climate reanalysis data: an illustration of socio-economic benefits generated by the use of ERA5’

• Stijn Vermoote (ECMWF)
   

13:30 - 14:30 ROUND TABLE “Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem – the user perspective”  – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Green Deal Data Spaces’

In this round table, we gather user perspectives on the Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem addressing application potential, community development, EO toolkits and federated solutions. A common thread will be about how offerings impact both European and international user communities and which developments should be stimulated further, and how.

• Guido Lemoine (European Commission JRC) - moderator​
• Tom Hengl (OpenGeoHub foundation)
• Nastasja Scholz (Luftbild Umwelt Planung GmbH)
• Amay Atencia (GMV)
• Jędrzej Bojanowski (CloudFerro)
   

14:30 - 15:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - from Space to People’

• Andreas Brink, Usue Donezar Hoyos (European Commission JRC, European Environment Agency)

15:00 - 15:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Explore the Copernicus Coastal and Arctic Hubs’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

15:35 - 16:00​ PRESENTATIONS session – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Green Deal Data Spaces’

• DestinE Platform - Unlocking EO and digital twin capabilities (Alexis Longuet, Serco)
• Standard-based solutions for the Common Green Deal Data Space. The perspective from AD4GD (Ivette Serral, CREAF)
• Enhancing User Experience in Cloud Platforms: Insights from the EuroGEO 2024 Co-Design Workshop (Margherita Di Leo, European Commission JRC)
• Copernicus Land Service: Global Biophysical Variables for Environment Monitoring (Michel Massart, European Commission)
• ECMWF’s Data Centre and Common Cloud Infrastructure: where weather and Copernicus data is born and made available to users throughout the World. (Stijn Vemoote, ECMWF)

THURSDAY 8 MAY

09:00 - 09:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Copernicus Border Surveillance Service’

• Sonja Gyallay-Pap (Frontex)

09:45 - 10:15 ROUND TABLE “Bridging Research and Market: Industry Engagement in EuroGEO”   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Disasters and health’

This roundtable aims to engage industry representatives and EuroGEO Action Group leaders in a lightning discussion on the relevance of industry participation in the EuroGEO initiative and within the Action Groups, delving into research-to-market activities. The session will explore how the EO industry can increase its involvement in the Action Groups and the benefits from such participation. After the discussion, the floor will be opened for comments and questions to gather insights that will inform the upcoming EGW25.

• Tanya Walker (EARSC) – moderator
• Anne Vallette (ACRI-ST)
• Gaetano Volpe (Latitudo 40)
• Thierry Ranchin (Armines – EuroGEO Secretariat)
• Haris Kontoes (NOA - EuroGEO Action Groups coordinator)

10:15 - 10:45 ROUND TABLE “Dialogues on co-designed user uptake through national and transboundary collaboration in Europe”   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Energy’

This session aims to provide a concise and dynamic dialogue among key actors involved in the implementation and coordination of Copernicus National Collaboration Programmes. This short session will encourage knowledge sharing on co-designed user uptake strategies and explore the added value of national and transboundary collaboration in Europe. 

• Cristina Ananasso (ECMWF) - moderator​
• Usue Donezar (Europen Environment Agency)
• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean)
• Antonella Tornato (Italian Institute for Environmental Research and Protection– IT)
• Isabelle Benezeth / Alexis Foussard (General Directorate for Research and Innovation - France)
• Thierry RANCHIN (EuroGEO secretariat)

11:00 - 11:30​ PRESENTATIONS session   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Urban’

• Harnessing AI and Earth Observation for Climate Resilience and Urban Sustainability (Gaetano Volpe, Latitudo 40)
• World Bank use cases of Human Planet Data (Nancy Lozano Gracia, World Bank)
• Revealing the role of Earth Observation in urban planning towards Climate Change mitigation (Orestis Speyer, National Observatory of Athens)
• Urban Geo-Climate Footprint: a new approach to clustering and classifying cities (Saverio Romeo, ISPRA / EuroGeoSurveys)

11:30 - 12:00 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘An overview of the Copernicus Marine service’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

13:00 - 13:30 ROUND TABLE “The urban dimension in GEO for more resilient and sustainable human settlements”   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Urban’

The integration of data from various Copernicus Services, and the translation of tools and knowledge into policy support is the driver for the Earth Intelligence nexus. Under the umbrella of the GEO Human Planet, the session investigates the nexus discussing practices and partnership at the start of the Post-2025 GEO Work Programme.

• Michele Melchiorri (European Commission JRC) - moderator​
• Francesco La Vigna (National Institute for Environmental Protection and Research)
• Dario Masante (European Commission JRC)
• Thomas Kemper (European Commission JRC)
• Maryam Rabiee (Sustainable Development Solutions Network)

13:30 - 14:00 ROUND TABLE “Leveraging EO and climate data to drive climate action and carbon markets”   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Climate’

The event will start with three pitch-presentations from the three speakers to briefly introduce their projects and initiatives, linking them along a value chain from observations of Essential Climate Variables – ECVs (iClimateAction), to their exploitation based on co-creation with users to deliver climate services (I-CISK) and enhance carbon markets. After these presentations the audience will be directly involved in a joint discussion

• Antonio Bombelli, WMO - moderator
• Ludivine Bosméan, WMO​
• Stefano Bagli, GECOsistema ​
• Monica Miguel-Lago, EARSC

14:00 - 14:30 MEET THE EXPERTS ‘Explore the Copernicus Coastal and Arctic Hubs’

• Muriel Lux (Mercator Ocean International)

15:40 - 16:00​ PRESENTATIONS session   – supported by EuroGEO Action Group ‘Biodiversity ecosystems and geodiversity’

• Enhancing SDG Monitoring: EO Pipelines and User Uptake Strategies (Monica Miguel-Lago, EARSC)
• Environmental Exposure Assessment Research Infrastructure - Preparatory Phase Project - EIRENE-PPP (Jana Klanova, CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution research)
• Machine Learning approach and Satellite Data for mapping Daily Concentration of PM: Preliminary results of APEMAIA project (Marica De Lucia, CNR - Institute of Atmospheric Pollution)
• SYLVA: Observing life in the air (Mikhail Sofiev, Finnish Meteorological Institute)