Nos dias 21 e 22 de Setembro, a GMV participou em Bruxelas no workshop "Investigação e Inovação da UE em apoio ao Mercado de Observação da Terra" (EU Research and Innovation in Support to the Earth Observation Market), organizado pela Direcção de Acção Climática e Eficiência de Recursos da Direcção Geral de Investigação e Inovação (DG RTD) da Comissão Europeia.

O objectivo geral do workshop consistiu em explorar as diferentes acções de Investigação e Inovação necessárias para o desenvolvimento de um mercado dinâmico de Observação da Terra na Europa e, em particular, um mercado de serviços apoiado nas possibilidades que oferecem iniciativas como os Sistemas de Observação Global da Terra (GEOSS) e a sua contribuição europeia, Copernicus.

The workshop’s main themes were, firstly, to characterize the current EO market in Europe and globally and its future trends; secondly, identify opportunities for the development of new EO services and products and appropriate measures to accelerate their uptake by industry and clients; and, thirdly, elaborate a mechanism for consulting/involving the European commercial sector in GEO within the Copernicus context, taking into account the dialogue already initiated between the two programs.

GMV was invited to present the paper "Generating added-value EO products and services for governmental agencies around the World". In this paper GMV spoke of its own experience in the marketing of geospatial and earth-observation services in three particular sectors: environment, land use and maritime safety, focusing especially on GMV’s Middle East contracts.

GMV has participated in important Copernicus projects in the areas of the environment, emergencies and safety. It is currently coordinating the European-Commission-brokered contract for defining user requirements to guide the next generation of the Copernicus Space Component (next generation of Sentinel missions).