Summer university course: Geospatial Technologies for Building Resilience

The Central European University is organising a summer course on Geospatial Technologies for Building Resilience. This course is a part of the “Bridging ICTs and Environment” workshop series run by the ISEPEI project, and is co-funded by the Open Society University Network (OSUN) in cooperation with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA). This workshop aims at providing in-service education and professional training for decision-makers and practitioners to assist them in making better informed data-driven decisions, using geospatial technologies. In particular, this year’s workshop explores the use of geospatial technologies for building and improving the resilience of communities to disasters and climate change. Various UN agencies (UNEP, UNOOSA, UNDRR, UN FAO, etc.) and global key stakeholders in digital technologies (EU JRC, Airbus, Esri, Google, MAXAR, etc.) will give presentations and practical exercises during this summer course. ESA’s Global Development Assistance Programme will be introduced on Thursday 27 July with a focus on the knowledge hub activity.