National Training Action “Space Data & Digital Transformation”

This action aims at structuring a competitive training offer to support European space and digital economy in the ongoing and future challenges coming from the “New space” actors.  The objective is to offer capable to prepare public and private actors to the “new space” challenges and to implement it on a web portal (Training Marketplace) and develop new and innovative training modules through the synergic expertise of the actors of both Copernicus Academies and Relays. The training action proposed will focus on Space data valorisation & digital transformation (including entrepreneurship) and will therefore contribute to the European “Copernicus user uptake action”.

This action will participate to a wider program action, to be implemented through the PIA-3 (Programme d'Investissements d'Avenir) foreseen for the operational phase during or just after the present action. It could be connected to any contributors of FPCUP creating a catalogue of formation or the EO4GEO Project if this one is looking for Partners to join an exercise focusing on the field of the Earth Observation / Valorisation / Digital transformation.

The action will be performed through 3 main activities:

• Training offer structuration:
• Training web portal & operations
• Development & Experimentation of new training modules/actions

The structuration of the training offer has started with the identification of key training actors and training material, covering European institutions and French academics (ESA, EC, CNES, ENSG).

Definition of a preliminary training database template, used to collect the training offer:

• Training module title
• Short description
• Training format
• Organisation name
• Training language
• Web link(s) to the training module
• Publication date
• Module duration
• Training level (initial, advanced…)
• Business model (free & open access, commercial,…)   

So far, more than 140 modules have been identified, focusing on Copernicus services & producs, exploitation of optical and SAR data, data access platforms. Next steps are to identify additional training sources, improve the current database structure and feed the current database with additional inputs.