EOPOWER – FP7 European project Earth Observation for Economic Empowerment http://www.eopower.eu      

 EOPOWER project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Grant Agreement 603500; THEME [ENV.2013.6.5-2 ENV.2013.6.5-2]

 

 

Capacity Building Support  Title :    Capacity Building Support Creator :    Iris van Duren, Joan Looijen and Raymond

Nijmeijer Creation date : 01.10.2014 Date of last revision : 20.05.2015 Subject : Support Status : Final Type : Other Description : Summary report about WP2.32 Contributor(s) : Kees Bronsveld, Michiel Damen, Iris van

Duren, Louise van Leeuwen, Joan Looijen, Ben Maathuis, Willem Nieuwenhuis, Raymond Nijmeijer

Rights : University of Twente, ITC, The Netherlands Identifier : EOPOWER_WP02_D 2.32 capacity building support.docx Language : English Relation : EOPOWER project partner

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY  The  main  aim  of  work  package  2  of  the  EOPOWER  –  FP7  European  Project  on  Earth  Observation  for  Economic  Empowerment  is  capacity  building.    As  part  of  this  work  package,  different  sets  of  training  materials  for  the  GEO  Societal  Benefit  Areas  (SBA’s  )  were  developed.    The  objective  of  the  development  of  training  packages  is  to  facilitate  capacity  building  in  environmental  applications  of  earth  observation  for  economic  development.  The  training  packages  target  on  an  individual  level  as  well  as  on  the  level  of  society  with  a  clear  focus  on  (but  not  limited  to)  the  regions  covered  in  the  project.      Task  D  2.31  includes  the  design  of  nine  three  day  courses  for  professionals  in  the  following  Societal  Benefit  Areas  (SBA’s):    

• Disasters  • Health  • Energy  • Climate,  • Agriculture  • Ecosystems  • Biodiversity    • Water  • Weather  

     Building  blocks  of  3  day  courses  were  developed  which  correspond  to  1  European  Credit  (EC).  Students/learners  following  five  of  those  3  day  courses  would  accumulate  in  this  way  5  EC’s,  which  resembles  for  example  a  regular  module  at  ITC,  the  Netherlands.    The  courses  have  a  standardised  set  up  and  include  an  introductory  video  and  poster,  a  description  of  main  aim  and  learning  outcomes,  a  course  structure  composed  by  different  learning  units  with  prescribed  workload  per  learning  unit,  learning  materials,  hard-­‐  and  software  requirements  and  references  to  additional  information.    In  Task  D  2.32  the  regions  involved  in  the  project  receive  capacity  building  support  in  the  form  of  a  course.      

 

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   Not  every  region  in  the  project  has  the  same  knowledge  gaps,  requirements  and  wishes.  Annex  1  shows  the  results  of  a  needs  analysis  done  during  the  mid-­‐term  project  meeting  in  Thessaloniki,  Greece  (May  2014).    According  to  the  needs  analysis  matrix  the  Czech  Republic  and  Slovakia  region,  for  example,  requires  capacity  building  in  the  thematic  areas:    

• Disasters  • Agriculture  • Ecosystems  • Biodiversity    • Water  

   For  each  region  in  the  EOPOWER  project  a  region  specific  course  was  set  up.  All  region  specific  courses  are  made  available  through  the  ITC  e-­‐learning  platform  Moodle.  The  Moodle  server  can  be  reached  by  using  the  hyperlink:    

http://menhir.itc.utwente.nl/moodle      

Annex  2  illustrates  how  the  region  specific  course  for  the  Czech  Republic  and  Slovakia  region  looks  like  in  the  ITC  e-­‐learning  environment  Moodle.  

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ANNEXES Annex  1  Needs  analysis  matrix  

 

             

   

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Annex  2  Example  of  a  region  specific  capacity  building  course