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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Dear colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">After a successful</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">
<a href="https://earthmonitor.org/gw2023/">Open-Earth-Monitor Workshop in 2023</a><span style="color:#222222">, the Open-Earth-Monitor project is pleased to invite you to the
<b><a href="https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2024/">Global Workshop 2024</a>,
</b>at Laxenburg, Austria, co-organized by the<b> </b></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://iiasa.ac.at/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">)
and the <a href="https://opengeohub.org/">Open Geo Hub foundation</a>. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">This year, the conference is titled ‘<b>From EO data to policy impact: open EO data in support of environmental, biodiversity and climate policies</b>’, and during
each of the days we will have specific emphasis on the following topics: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Forest and Biodiversity,<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Soil, Water and Agriculture, and<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#222222;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Climate and Health;<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The hybrid conference will take place from October 2<sup>nd</sup> to 4<sup>th</sup> 2024 and will host a variety of sessions, from keynote presentations to oral
talks, workshops, and poster presentations. In case you are interested in hosting one of these presentations, please submit your abstract by
<b>March 15th</b> using the following form <a href="https://t.co/h0KTM0HV10">https://t.co/h0KTM0HV10</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">This international event will connect project partners, including data and environmental researchers, public and private sector developers, EU decision- and policymakers,
representatives from global institutions, the business sector and civil society to discuss and test solutions to the greatest challenges in geospatial applications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Do you know someone who might be interested in attending? Please forward this invitation.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">For more information see:
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><a href="https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2024/"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1155CC">https://earthmonitor.org/global-workshop-2024/</span></a></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222"> </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">We hope to see you there.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">Kindly.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#222222">The Open-Earth-Monitor Global Workshop Organizing Committee</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="en-AT" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Fan Heiti Std B";color:#00589F;mso-ligatures:none">Ivelina Georgieva</span><span lang="en-AT" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Fan Heiti Std B";mso-ligatures:none">Research Assistant
</span><span lang="en-AT" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Fan Heiti Std B";mso-ligatures:none">Novel Data Ecosystems for Sustainablity (NODES)</span><span lang="en-AT" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Fan Heiti Std B";mso-ligatures:none">Advanced Systems Analysis (ASA)</span><span lang="en-AT" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Adobe Fan Heiti Std B";color:#00589F;mso-ligatures:none">International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis</span></b><span lang="en-AT" style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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