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Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community the EO AFRICA Initiative will achieve its overarching goal: fostering innovation processes for a continuous development of EO capabilities in Africa.
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March 2, 2023
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Following the successful first three rounds of calls for research proposals, the EO AFRICA R&D Facility, in coordination with the European Space Agency (ESA) and the African Union Commission (AUC), launched in Apr 2025 a 4th call for proposals. The aim of this call is to extend the support to African-European collaborative research efforts in the domain of EO applications.
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Research Projects 2025-2027

We are proud to announce 10 new research projects to be conducted by African-European tandems. These projects, selected from the 4th call for proposals, will run for 15 months starting from September 2025 and cover various topics including atmospheric pollution, droughts, water level monitoring, crops, biomass...
August 19, 2025
The Numbers
The EO AFRICA Research and Development Facility started in March 2021. A variety of capacity-building activities, including face-to-face, Online Courses, and Webinars took place. The figures below display the magnitude and the outreach on country-level of the different activities.
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EO Africa in numbers

Data from the R&D platform:
R&D Accounts: >5000
Learners: >2000
Enrolments: >3000
Countries: 135
 
April 8, 2025
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The CAIAC (Climate Analysis in African Cities) project is an international collaboration between the Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), the African Centre of Meteorological Applications for Development (ACMAD), and the University of Ottawa, with support from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Call to contribute to advancing urban climate research in Africa

Contribute to advancing urban climate research in Africa, by filling out this survey.

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August 8, 2025
Space Academy
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Version 3 of the MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space is launched. The Chapters on Cloud Computing and Earth Observations Advances have been updated. Some additional webinars are included in the MOOC v3. For the presentations, both French and English subtitles can be displayed over the presentation.
R&D Facility

MOOC on Drought Assessment and Monitoring from Space v3

The updated version of MOOC (v3) is here.

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January 20, 2025
Training Modules
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A total of 11 downloadable training packages have been developed. The content of most of the MOOC-chapters, webinars, online and face to face trainings is derived from these training packages. The packages are intended to be used in MSc level curricula in the field of EO for water and food security, general EO knowledge and skills, Cloud Computing, Atmosphere and PolINSAR. All packages use free and open-software.
R&D Facility

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1: General
2: EO for Water Resources and Security
3: EO for Food Security
4: POLinSAR processing and app...
5: Atmospheric composition proc...
6: Marine and Coastal resources app...

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April 7, 2022

 
 

R&D Facilities

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Facilitating R&D
Leveraging Digital Tools
Reinforcing Capacity

 

Why EO Africa

EO AFRICA stands for African Framework for Research Innovation, Communities and Applications in Earth Observation. EO AFRICA fosters an African-European R&D partnership, facilitating the sustainable adoption of the Earth Observation and related space technology in Africa – following an African user driven approach with a long-term (>10 years) vision for the digital era in Africa.

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EO AFRICA Community

Community building is a central aspect of the EO AFRICA Initiative. It will allow our stakeholders to follow-up on events and calls, participate in the Space Academy and/or make use of the Innovation Lab. Only by engaging with the community

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Space Academy

The Space Academy is the institute of the EO AFRICA R&D Facility that will take care of the (co-)development, hosting and the certification of all the developed content. The Space Academy will provide a system to enrol candidates for the

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