[Geo4All] European Gravity Service for Improved Emergency Management

Sat Oct 8 07:52:14 PDT 2016

Dear All

the following  could be of interest of your students.

Enjoy your Sunday!

Maria

The Horizon 2020 funded European Gravity Service for Improved Emergency Management project (EGSIEM - more information available at www.egsiem.eu) aims to enhance existing gravity field products by providing them in an increased spatial-temporal resolution for improved forecasting and mapping of hydrological extreme events, thereby accelerating earth and environmental science research applications.

A student challenge has been organized within the EGSIEM project, in order to increase awareness among B.Sc. and M.Sc. students about the most recent and important research topics in geodesy, hydrology and other environmental disciplines. The challenge will seek to widen knowledge and participation by providing an overview of what, why and how research in this field is undertaken. The challenge is composed of two rounds; the first round is based on 20 multiple-choice questions. Students from relevant fields should be able to answer all the questions with the help of online/offline resources. Any participants who can answer at least 15 of the 20 questions will be invited to participate in the second round. The second round is composed of another 20 questions which will require a written answer. While participating in both rounds students will learn more about the fundamentals of earth observation satellite missions, measurement principles, accuracy of measurements, the importance of Earth's gravity field data, and finally how we utilize GRACE based mass-transport as an indicator for drought/flood monitoring and management.

The best two participants from the overall challenge will be awarded an internship at one of the eight research institutes of the EGSIEM consortium. Internships could be from 6 to 8 weeks. The students will be awarded their travel expenses, accommodation, health, accident and personal liability insurance. The third and fourth placed participants will be given scholarships for the EGSIEM summer school. The scholarship covers travel expenses, accommodation, health, accident and personal liability insurance. In addition, all students successfully passing the 1st round will be awarded with a certificate of participation in the EGSIEM challenge and an EGSIEM travel mug.

This unique challenge is available at: http://challenge.egsiem.eu/. Students should register for the 1st round of the challenge by 10th November. The second round will commence on 15th November and the deadline to answer these questions will be 20th December (all times until midnight, central European time). After successful registration a link to the challenge questions will be sent to the participants registered email address within 24 hours.

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Prof. Maria Antonia Brovelli
Vice Rector for Como Campus and GIS Professor
Politecnico di Milano

ISPRS WG IV/4"Collaborative crowdsourced cloud mapping (C3M)"; OSGeo; ICA-OSGeo-ISPRS Advisory Board; NASA WorldWind Europa Challenge; SIFET
Sol Katz Award 2015

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Da: GeoForAll <geoforall-bounces at lists.osgeo.org> per conto di Suchith Anand <Suchith.Anand at nottingham.ac.uk>
Inviato: sabato 8 ottobre 2016 16.44
A: geoforall at lists.osgeo.org
Oggetto: [Geo4All] RDA Europe Call for Collaboration Projects 2016 edition - Apply before 15th October 2016

This May 2016, RDA Europe launched its second Call for European Collaboration Projects designed to support communities that want to test and adopt the RDA Recommendations and Outputs.

All research initiatives, organisations and communities are invited to develop solutions adapting the RDA outputs to meet the requirements of concrete implementation cases. RDA Europe is committed, through its senior-junior teams and structured collaboration model, to provide support, advice and training for the full duration of the projects to ensure their success and uptake of the results.

RDA Collaboration Projects should be short and focused activities with concrete results to be produced within a 6 month time frame. Collaboration Projects will receive 15000 EUR grant for carrying out these activities.

Testing and adopting RDA Recommendations and Outputs from one of the Working or Interest Groups is an excellent way to be in the right place at the right moment in the data revolution.

RDA values your feedback and user experience and, together, we'll take one more step towards a future of openly shared research data.

- From a total of 25 applications received following the previous call, 7 projects received funding. The topics addressed span across the most diverse domains such as wheat data interoperability, temperature/salinity profiling floats, language resources and technology, virtual atomic and molecular data, publishing data services, and life sciences. Each of the funded collaboration projects identified the RDA outputs relevant to their research for experimentation, testing and validation of the RDA concepts and implementations.

If your research  benefits from the sharing of open interoperable data make sure you don't miss out on this opportunity. Use the online form to submit an application https://www.rd-alliance.org/rda-europe-call-collaboration-projects-2016-edition     The deadline to apply is the 15th of October.

Find out more about the RDA recommendations and Outputs (https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-and-outputs/all-recommendations-and-outputs ) and see more than 65 examples of implementation and adoption (https://www.rd-alliance.org/recommendations-outputs/adoption-recommendations )

Get a head start by adhering to the RDA principles and giving your contribution to validating the future infrastructures.

Don't be a spectator: become part of the data revolution!

Best wishes,

Suchith

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