LAUNCHING THE COPERNICUS4REGIONS PUBLICATION
Thursday 22 November 2018 | 18.00–20.30 | Members’ salon, European Parliament, Brussels

Watch the registration of the event in Webstream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8TW3iHPkr0

Discover how public authorities benefit and innovate from using the European Union Copernicus programme.

In the frame of the Copernicus4Regions initiative, launched by the European Commission, the European Space Agency and NEREUS, NEREUS is holding a high-level political event at the European Parliament in Bruxelles on the 22th of November 2018.

The Copernicus4Regions event is a milestone of the collaboration, as it builds on the call for Copernicus User Stories by local and regional authorities and launches the paper Publication “The Ever Growing Uses of Copernicus Across Europe’s Regions”.

The audience will have the opportunity to discover how public authorities benefit and innovate from using Copernicus, the European Union’s flagship Earth observation programme. Concrete user stories will be staged and pitched, and will serve as a basis for the moderated debate with the audience in the presence of Members of the European Parliament. Free copies of the publication will be distributed and shared with the audience in different ways.

Download the Copernicus4Regions invitation

Planetek Italia and Planetek Hellas will join the event showcasing its best practices and case histories with local and regional users based on the use of Copernicus data and information services.

In detail, in Bruxelles two Planetek case histories have been selected and invited for a presentation in front of the international audience. Planetek Italia and MM SpA will present "Monitoring the health of water and sewerage networks in Lombardy Region, Italy", while Planetek Hellas and the Water Directorate of Decentralized Administration of Epirus and Western Macedonia will present "Monitoring the Eutrofication Risk in the Coastal waters of the province of Thesprotia (Region of Epirus, Greece)".

Further Planetek case histories have been selected and included in the publication “The Ever Growing Uses of Copernicus Across Europe’s Regions” illustrating the use of Copernicus data.

Download here the publication Copernicus4Regions 2018 in PDF and read our success stories:

• "Actionable information on burnt areas" - Burnt area monitoring in Apulia, Italy, with Alta Murgia National Park (Pag.110);
• "Monitoring coastal waters in near real-time" - Monitoring Eutrophication risk in Albania and Greek region of Epirus and Western Macedonia (Pag.132)
• "Monitoring landslide risk in urban areas" - Ground displacement monitoring in Niscemi, Italy, with the Municipality of Niscemi (Pag.224);
• "A village stricken by terrain movements" - Ground displacement monitoring in Lockwiller, with the Municipality of Lockwiller, France; (Pag.240);
• "Copernicus supports precision farming for an Apulian vineyard" - Precision Farming and high quality wine production in Apulia, Italy, with the wine producer Tormaresca and EUGENIUS project (Pag. 66);
• "Monitoring the health of water and sewerage networks" - Monitoring of ground displacement over the sewerage networks in Milan, Italy, with MM Spa (Pag.246)

For more information, please visit the event's website