India space research community invited to contribute on European Space Strategy

European Space Strategy. Credits: ESA

The European Union will invest over €12 billion in space programmes including Galileo/EGNOS in satellite navigation, ‪#‎Copernicus‬ in Earth Observation and space research in the framework of Horizon 2020. The space research community in India has been invited by the EU to contribute to the discussion on European Space Strategy trough an open global consultation.

According to the Commission these EU investments are expected to create substantial market opportunities for European industry and SMEs through the development of value-added downstream services and applications. Such services require continuous and sustained access to space-borne data and signals, as well as their integration with other kinds of data, such as ground-based or socioeconomic data. Examples range from safer sailing applications for ships, designed to optimise routes by combining weather and ocean data, to applications for monitoring vital infrastructure like power grids and transport networks, applications in precision farming, monitoring of oil spills at sea, and many others. The Commission intends to maximising the societal and economic benefits of the EU’s investments in space.

Responses can be submitted at the latest by 12 July 2016 filling in the online questionnaire on https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SpaceStrategy

A dedicated survey for companies using (or interested in using) Copernicus data is being run in parallel and can be accessed on
https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/CopernicusForEOcompanies