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GEO-Academy Attended the International Astronautical Congress – IAC2024

“GEO-Academy: Developing Teachers Spatial Skills for Climate Change and Sustainable Development Education” On 14 October 2024, GEO-Academy’s project partner, Eurisy, attended the International Astronautical Congress 2024 in Milan, Italy, which welcomed more than 10.000 experts from the space industry, research and the institutions, and presented the GEO-Academy project, its objectives and achievements to a large …

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Geo-Academy participates in the European Researchers’ Night

Geo-Academy had the opportunity to participate in the European Researchers’ Night, which is the largest science outreach event in Europe!  At the Geo-Academy stand, attendees explored the theme of urbanization through an interactive display. Using a specially developed app that utilizes Landsat 8 satellite images, participants had the opportunity to compare satellite imagery of five …

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GEO-Academy at the EUROGEO conference: GEOBSERVE – an online platform to develop Teacher’s Spatial Skills for Climate Change and Sustainable Development Education

On 30 May 2024, GEO-Academy attended the EUROGEO conference in Porto, Portugal. The European Association of Geographers (EUROGEO) is an association that aims at promoting the importance of geographical education and spatial thinking as a contribution towards the development of a better understanding of our world and therefore global citizenship, among other things. The EUROGEO …

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Education for Sustainable Development: features, competences and tools

In February 2024, the GEO-Academy consortium published a report entitled “Overview of features, competences and tools for Education for Sustainable Development”. The purpose of the report is to identify and summarise key features of education for sustainable development (ESD) and key digital, green and spatial competences for lifelong learning, as well as existing educational material …

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Erasmus+ Teacher Academies Come Together to Enhance European Teachers’ Climate Competencies

On Friday 2nd February 2024 the four Erasmus+ Teacher Academies under the sustainability pillar came together to share their experiences so far and highlight the possibilities for collaboration between the projects. The network meeting was the first of its kinds, but certainly not the last, as presentations and discussions on each project’s unique perspective and …

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GEO-Academy Summer School 2024

The GEO-Academy summer school course is developed in the context of the project: “Innovative digital GEO – Tools for enhancing teachers’ digital, green and spatial skills towards an effective STEAM Education for Sustainable Development”. GEO-Academy aims to create a European network offering a comprehensive teacher training and development program that will provide pre-and in-service teachers …

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Community building

Did you know? Half of the vital climate variables identified by the UN’s Global Climate Observing Systemare only adequately observable from space. Understand climate change is simply inconceivable without the array of sensors around our planet. However, despite the invaluable data satellites provide, space remains inaccessible to many. Translating this abundance of data into meaningful …

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