[Europe] Activities towards a "European Geospatial Software Institute" ?

[Dirk Frigne]

Thank you Peter for addressing the attention on this topic.


I am not into the details of Fabspace 2.0, but at first sight this could
be something to investigate in relation to your question:

December 2017, UJI joined Fabspace 2.0 network (www.fabspace.eu). In few
words "FabSpace 2.0 aims at making Universities open innovation centres
for their region and at improving their contribution to the
socio-economic and environmental performance of societies by exploiting
Earth Observation data and geospatial information [...] by creating a
research collaborative environment" . "FabSpace 2.0 is an international
project carried out within the Horizon 2020 Program financed by the
European Union. Its goal is to create innovative applications and
services using open spatial data and geo-information technologies."

It would be good to try to get an overview of all European initiatives
and discuss which could be the strategy for OSGeo Europe to follow.

Dirk

On 16-07-18 15:03, "Peter Löwe" wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> here's a bit of an unusual question / request for guidance:
> 
> In the US, efforts are underway to launch a national Geospatial Software Institute. To set the scope for the upcoming instite, the National Science Foundation host a series of workshops.
> During the first workshop earlier this year, Helena Mitasova and Vaclav Petras (OSGeo / GRASS GIS) provided input from the OSGeo perspective. Currently the second workshop is on and I'm attending (providing input from the OSGeo (again) and european perspective).
> Within the EU, things like GO-FAIR, the Zenodo repository and the European Open Science Cloud are currently underway. On the national level, there are activities like the Weizenbaum institute in Germany ("Germany Internet Institute").
> 
> Question: Are there already activities on the european scale underway towards "federated geospatial institutes" are a distinct Euopean institute ?
> 
> Any feedback would be much appreciated.
> 
> best,
> peter 
> 
> 
> <peter.loewe at gmx.de>
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