Welcome!
Earth Observation Training, Education,
and Capacity Development Network
ASIA-OCEANIA REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
TASK TEAM MEETING
Rishiraj Dutta, Task Team Lead
21 September 2023
For those who are new…�EOTEC DevNet partners, aim and themes
AIMS
THEMATIC FOCUS
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Today’s agenda
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Time (UTC) | Agenda item | Presenter/moderator |
03:00 | Welcome and introduction | Rishiraj Dutta |
03:05 | CoP spotlight Assessing EO Capacity Needs in Asia Oceania | Poonam Tripathi, SERVIR HKH (ICIMOD) |
03:25 | Exchange on needs assessments initiatives
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03:55 | Sharing our resources: a look at Australia’s VLab Center of Excellence training | Bodo Zeschke, Australia VLab CoE and Australia Bureau of Meteorology |
04:05 | Global partner/Secretariat updates
| Erin Martin, EOTEC DevNet Secretariat |
04:10 | Summary of next steps and thank you | Rishiraj Dutta |
04:15 | CONCLUSION | |
CoP spotlight
Poonam Tripathi
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya (ICIMOD)
Capacity-building efforts of SERVIR-HKH�Approaches and Lessons
Poonam Tripathi, PhD
Major focus
Our Focus
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Thapa et al. (2019), Frontiers; Thapa R.B.T., Tripathi et al., (2021), Book Chapter Springer Nature
Elements of Capacity building (CB)
A = Assessment
D = Design
I = Implementation
M = Monitoring
Capacity Building Pathways
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Pathways to impact
Thapa R.B.T., Tripathi et al., (2021), Book Chapter Springer Nature
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Monitoring and evaluation
a) Short-term monitoring
Pre and post assessment
b) Long-term monitoring
OCAT based tracer survey for 29 training and clustered in14 modules
Pathways to impact
3. Strategic collaborations
Localization of our services
Partnership with
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CHALLENGES
Regional knowledge gap on EO & GIT
Emerging EO and GIT techniques
Large capacity gap
(shortfall of professionals and trained specialists)
Lack of women participation
Monitoring and evaluation
OPPORTUNITIES
Collaboration with stakeholders
Acquiring cutting-edge expert knowledge
(Engaging SMEs, AST team)
High demands of capacity development
(systemic capacity building pathways )
Women-focused and inclusive capacity building programs
Effective impact tracing
(Short/long term)
Lesson Learned
CHALLENGES
Staff turnover at partner institutions
Irrelevant nominations for highly technical trainings
Difficulties in ensuring gender balance
Reach out to wider and diverse group
Others
(Communication, Customization)
OPPORTUNITIES
Ensuring an overlap between outgoing and
incoming staff, and transferring knowledge
to retain capacity
Enabling a variety of people—from youth to
professionals and technicians—to set policy
agendas for the larger benefit of society
Harnessing the efficacy of virtual platform
Interaction with diverse group
(Understanding best practices)
Lesson Learned
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Thank You!
Discussion and exchange
Experience with EO capacity needs assessments
The next CoP task team product?
Needs assessment tracker - for collaboration
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Sharing our resources: A look at Australia Vlab training
Bodo Zeschke
Australia VLab Centre of Excellence and Australia Bureau of Meteorology
Secretariat updates
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Website launch
Be part of the conversation: www.eotecdev.net
SEE YOU ONLINE!
Droughts working groups
Droughts kick off September 27 - two sessions
Who do you know who might be interested? Please share with your network!
Floods working group
Global use case, regional event analyses available on flood tools tracker and new website
Toward coordinated EO capacity building
Collaboration with SPACE4GEO LSP
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Network intelligence update
Continued growth in our capacity building community
EOTEC DevNet network has been growing both extensively (94 entities) and intensively (882 new connections).
We have started to capture the next layer of data (data of the EOTEC DevNet constituencies)
June 2021
April 2022
October 2022
Feb 2023
Sept 2023
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Network intelligence update
Public dashboard in development
Provides data on trends and actors within EOTEC DevNet networks
Updates and opportunities
Opportunities and resources
SAMPLE OF TRAINING ACTIVITIES | |
ECMWF: Training on Use of Data from Copernicus Climate Change and Atmosphere Monitoring Services, 4 October (online) (registration by 1 October) | Data into Building Infrastructure Data Sets for Disaster Risk Modeling, 3-10 October (Online) |
ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop, 13-17 November, ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy (in-person) | ESRI Academy MOOC: GIS for Climate Action, 25 October - 6 December (free), deadline for registrations 9 November |
NEW MOOCs: ISRO: Earth Observation for Climate Action, 15 Sept-14 Oct CSA/EO College: SAR for Winter Warming ESA/EO College: Land, Zero Hunger | |
PLACES TO FIND TRAINING | |
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org | NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe |
UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0 | |
CENTRE FOR SPACE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: www.cssteap.org | EO College: eo-college.org |
EUMETSAT training catalogue: catalog.trainhub.eumetsat.int | UN CC: e-Learn (climate change, green and circular economy |
Conferences
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CONFERENCES/CALLS FOR PAPERS | |
2023 Asian Conference on Remote Sensing, 30 October- 3 November, Taipei City, Taiwan (in-person) | AOMSUC-13, Seoul, 3-10 November |
CALMet XV Conference, 13-17 Nov, 2023 (online) | HYDROSPACE 2023, 5th Space for Water Cycle and Hydrology Workshop, 27 November - 1 December, Lisbon, Portugal (in-person) |
EU Space Week, 7-9 November, Seville, Spain (hybrid) | Big Data from Space 2023, 6-9 November, Vienna, Austria (in-person) |
GEO Week 2023, 6-10 Nov, Cape Town, South Africa | World Space Forum, 12-14 December, Vienna, Austria (In-person) |
COSPAR 2024, July 13-21 2024, Bexco, Busan, Korea | AGU 2023, 11-15 December, San Francisco, USA (hybrid) |
Summary and next steps
Drought Working Group Kick-off: September 27, 7:00/14:00 UTC
Flood Working Group meeting: October 19, 03:00 UTC
Next CoP task team meeting: December 7, 03:00 UTC
Thank you for being part of the EOTEC community of practice.
See you online!
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