Towards an innovative strategy for skills development and capacity building in the space geo-information sector supporting Copernicus user uptake

creating and maintaining an ontology-based Body of Knowledge for the space/geospatial sector based on previous efforts; developing and integrating a dynamic collaborative platform with associated tools; designing and developing a series of curricula and a rich portfolio of training modules directly usable in the context of Copernicus and other relevant programmes; conducting a series of training actions for a selected set of scenario’s in the three sub-sectors - integrated applications, smart cities and climate change to test and validate the approach. A long-term Action Plan will be developed and endorsed to roll-out and sustain the proposed solutions