FabSpace 2.0 Greece team of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) has recently joint forces with the MaGOS team, 1^st and 3^rd place Award winner of the Local and International legs of ActInSpace® 2016 and the 2^nd place Award winner of the COSMOTE Hackathon 2018, to integrate the MaGOS input device with Virtual Reality (VR) 3D Geographic Information Systems, a case that will open up the horizon for immersive geo-informatics and earth observation solutions.

The MaGOS team which comprised of of Mr. George Profitiliotis (an alumnus of the NTUA), Mr. Gregory Agriopoulos, Mr. Konstantinos Anastasakis, Mr. Vasilapostolos Ouranis and Ms. Elena Veli proposed during the COSMOTE Hackathon 2018 challenge a novel VR input device in the form of gloves, based on state-of-the-art wearable electromagnetic sensors, that will allow 3D designers to sculpt and model their digital creations in a VR environment in a more user-friendly and efficient manner.

The MaGOS Team members who won the 2nd place award winner for COSMOTE Hackaton 2018 in Athens, Greece

The proposed product could also target multiple side market verticals. One such side-market case that is currently being explored jointly with the FabSpace 2.0 Greece team that comprised of Dr. Iosif Paraskevas and Mr. Haris Marantos (under the supervision of Prof. Dimitrios Soudris). Dr. Iosif Paraskevas from the ICCS, the FabSpace 2.0 Greece Manager said:

“We have learnt about the initial idea of MaGOS and we discussed with them on how this glove could give an added value to the use of EO data. Indeed, the brainstorming was spontaneous, and we agreed to work together on this. We, as part of FabSpace 2.0, are very happy to provide MaGOS with technical know-how, not only about EO data, but also regarding embedded technologies (for which ICCS is well-known). Additionally, and through FabSpace 2.0 network, it is easier for MaGOS to contact EO related companies in order to understand their needs. We hope this teaming with MaGOS to create an even more fantastic product, and we also hope to find more start-ups which currently do not use of EO data, but with huge potential if they take into account that they can use EO data in order to enhance the quality and functionality of their products; to this end this is one of the main goals of FabSpace 2.0 project”.

The prototype of MaGOS product, a novel VR input device in the form of gloves, based on state-of-the art wearable electromagnetic sensors

Mr. George Profitiliotis, PhD candidate at the National Technical University of Athens and Innovation Officer of the MaGOS team stated the following:

“The MaGOS product has been constantly evolving since its initial conception two years ago, during the ActInSpace® 2016 competition. Throughout its development, our team has been actively researching and exploring promising target markets to construct use cases where our product would make a substantial difference. The application of the MaGOS interface to VR 3D Geographic Information Systems for the enhancement of EO data visualization and for the ease of its manipulation is such a case. By collaborating with FabSpace 2.0, we believe that our product will soon offer a game-changing solution to the EO community”.

Together with the 2^nd Place Award, the team was awarded a cash prize of €5.000 and incubation services by the Athens Centre for Enterpreneurship and Innovation, which will be utilised for the advancement of their product’s prototype. To know more about MaGOS product, please see here: http://www.qnq.gr/history.html

FabSpace 2.0 is proud to join forces with MaGOS team to enhance their product innovation. With its growing networks, FabSpace 2.0 will continuously support similar start-ups and business ideas to stimulate open innovation in Earth Observation to make our planet a better place to live in, which is the main project purpose.

The Vindo Team from the Netherlands is announced as the winner of the FabSpace 2.0 Prize in the third edition of ActInSpace® 2018 which was held on the 25^th – 26^th of May 2018 all over the world, knocking out other 54 applications. The announcement took place during the finals of ActInSpace® 2018 on the 27^th of June 2018 in Toulouse, France. This year, FabSpace 2.0 is being one of the official partners of ActInSpace 2018.

ActInSpace® is an international innovation contest inspiring young women and men worldwide to meet challenges based on space technologies, data, patents and infrastructures to launch start-ups into all areas of our daily lives. Designed for students but open to everyone, the objective of the contest is to foster entrepreneurship, encourage start-up creation and promote the use of space technologies and space acquired data to change citizen’s lives, to boost employment and to protect our planet.

This year the contest was fulfilling an international ambition which are transforming an essentially European edition into an international edition; bringing together 53 cities from 32 countries in all continents; attracting 3400+ participants with 510 teams working on 60+ different challenges; and creating between 20 and 30 new start-ups.

Picture 1. All of the participants and organisers were posing on the stage during the finals of ActInSpace® 2018 in Toulouse, France

As partner, FabSpace 2.0 provided three challenges based on Earth Observation Data (links: http://bit.ly/FS-AIS2018) and dedicated prizes which are a free trip to Toulouse to attend the ActInSpace® 2018 international final; receive a mentoring program by experts in selected area; and a meeting with Airbus representative in Toulouse. There were 11 FabSpaces who are involved as organiser of ActInSpace® 2018 including FabSpaces France: Toulouse, Bordeaux, Nice, Brest; FabSpace Poland: Warsaw; FabSpace Germany: Darmstadt; FabSpace Greece: Athens; FabSpace Cameroon: Yaundé; FabSpace Cyprus: Limassu; FabSpace Czech Republic: Prague; and FabSpace Netherlands: Noordwijk. The FabSpace 2.0´s challenges attracted many teams from various locations worldwide such as Brazil, New Zealand, Tunisia, Nigeria, Gabon, Latvia, Azerbaijan, France, Portugal, Greece, and the United Sates.

Picture 2. Josiane Mothe from UPS, the Coordinator of FabSpace 2.0 and Philippe Lattes from Aerospace Valley (FabSpace 2.0 partner) announced the FabSpace 2.0 winning team

Josiane Mothe from University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS), the Coordinator of FabSpace 2.0 project said: “With more than 50 teams participating on the challenges provided by FabSpace 2.0 at ActInSpace® 2018; it has been a real success. Moreover, Vindo’s application idea is completely in line with the overall objective of FabSpace 2.0: to stimulate open innovation in Earth Observation to make our planet a better place to live in. We hope that many new innovative start-ups like Vindo can be created and developed in the near future.”

Vindo, the winning team of FabSpace 2.0 Prize was competing in the COPERNICUS APP LAB challenge located in the Netherlands, one of the FabSpace 2.0 organiser in collaboration with the local ESA BIC. Vindo App successfully won the competition by providing an innovative idea with the concept of letting people find the ideal city within the App and urges cities to be shaped after their needs. The App is using Copernicus data.

Picture 3. Josiane Mothe (in the middle), the Coordinator of FabSpace 2.0, together with Vindo Team members during the finals of ActInSpace® 2018 in Toulouse, France

“Winning the FabSpace 2.0 Earth Observation Prize at the ActInSpace® 2018 is a great honour for us. The support of Fabspace 2.0 encourages us to develop our application further and shows that we can have a positive impact on society. We want to thank FabSpace 2.0 and the ActInSpace® Team for the opportunity to come to Toulouse to meet other teams from all over the world and exchange ideas.” said Tristan Faschinger, an Aerospace Engineering student at TU Delft, one of Vindo team member. To find out more about the Vindo App, simply watch their video (including a demo) on: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ5TzjYZg_E.

FabSpace 2.0 is proud to be partner of ActInSpace® 2018 and hopes that this event will stimulate the uptake and reuse of space technology and data and identify future applicants for ESA BICs and partner incubators. A full list of the challenges winners can be found at: https://actinspace.org/

We live in an era of an almost limitless availability of data, spatial data included. At the core of the development of the now emerging (geo) information society is the ability to convert the “raw” data into useful information and knowledge. The ability to use the potential of the available spatial data and to create innovative geo-information applications that change the world around us, the society and ourselves, is essential for the effectiveness of sustainable development, for rational spatial planning and for increasing the European innovativeness.

FabSpace 2.0 aims at making Universities open innovation centres for their region and at improving their contribution to the socio-economic and environmental performance of societies by exploiting Earth Observation data and geospatial information. In a collaborative research environment within Universities, students and researchers will get in contact with end-users’ needs and will have the possibility to rapidly prototype innovative EO-Earth Observation applications and services, exploiting free Sentinel Data and Copernicus Core Services.

The initial network of FabSpace 2.0 partners consists of six centres (in France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Greece and Poland), each one composed by a local University and the local ESA BIC-Business Incubation Centre. In December 2017, FabSpace 2.0 selected 14 new FabSpaces located in various countries worldwide including France, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Lithuania, Armenia, Cyprus, The Netherlands, and Cameroon. The international opening of the FabSpace 2.0 network worldwide is now open!

Your Organization can now become one of them…. and be part of the core group of the FabSpace 2.0 Network Worlwide!

Experience a new journey into open innovation based on geo-spatial and Earth Observation data.

Please read the attached information package  below and feel free to ask questions and clarifications to Mr Marcello Maranesi (Univ. of Rome Tor Vergata maranesimarcello@gmail.com) and Mrs Aurélie Baker (ESA BIC Sud France – Aerospace Valley: fabspace@aerospace-valley.com

Additional Information for the Call_FabSpace World Wide Network 2018

Letter of Interest template New FabSpaces 2018

Application Form New FabSpaces 2018

Last month, FabSpace 2.0 published the 1^st edition of the FabSpace Use Cases Series as part of the project´s initiative. Specifically, this Use Cases series is part of the activities foreseen within work package (WP) 3 – Animation and Networking for innovation and entrepreneurial discovery, which are implemented throughout the entire lifetime of the project.

WP3 is the central WP for the Daily FabSpaces animation and aim to generate awareness in the academia, research centres, companies and civil society organisations about the application uses of earth observation data and the FabSpace platform and pilot actions. It will also attenuate the boarder effect between projects ideas and start up creation by encouraging FabSpace users in making the first step toward entrepreneurship.

The first edition included seven uses cases collected from various FabSpaces partners and location such as “Epidemic Disease Mapping in Africa” developed by FabSpace Darmstadt, Germany in collaboration with Merck and ESOC at Darmstadt; “Implementation of Earth Observation image processing via Neural Networks on Embedded Architectures”, “Regional Population Estimation Using Satellite Imagery”, “Hyperspectral Earth Observation Image Processing On FPGAs” developed by FabSpace Greece; “Calculation of damage in forests using Sentinel-2” developed by FabSpace Warsaw, Poland; “Mapping deforestation in a location of interest” developed by FabSpace Toulouse, France; and “Global Warming Impact Assessment on the Bracciano Lake Surface Temperature” developed by FabSpace Rome, Italy.

FabSpace aims for the use cases to showcase various ideas to use EO data and tools with the aim to attract more people from different backgrounds to generate new projects and promising business plans in the future.

Continuous improvement and more use cases would be expected in the next edition. The next edition of the use cases implemented within FabSpace partners shall be published regularly during the entire lifetime of the project. The FabSpace 2.0 project will continue on the next edition of the use cases with more challenges and categories. The project also welcomes any organizations to be involved in the development of the use cases in order to successfully implement the project findings.

Click here to download the 1^st edition of FabSpace Use Case Series and tell us your feedback!

1st Edition FabSpace Use Cases Series May 2018

This month, FabSpace 2.0 officially announced the new patronage activities for the 2018 International Summer School on Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (ISSAOS 2018) to be held on the 27^th – 31^st August 2018 in L’Aquila, Italy and is organised by the Center of Excellence for the Forecast of Severe Weather by Remote Sensing and Numerical Modeling (CETEMPS), University of L’Aquila, Italy, which is also one of the new launched FabSpaces international network. The purpose of the school is to illustrate the progress that has been made in the scientific ability to generate detailed climate projections at the regional scale. The theoretical lectures will be complemented by practical sessions on real environmental data analysis, and there will be ample opportunity to exchange ideas and questions among the students and the lecturers.

The main objectives of the school are thus to provide students with an insight into climate changes and impacts, as well as to associated uncertainties and their communication. Assessments on the most recent techniques for climate data analysis, for regional climate modeling techniques, for climate impact on hydrology and for quality assessment and validation of the observations will be provided.

The topics of the programme includes: Global change: overview of the climate system; Climate change impacts: analysis of the impacts at global and regional scale; Climate change uncertainties: and their communication overview of the uncertainties and role of communication; Regional climate modeling: RCM techniques; Climate impact on hydrology: impacts of the climate changes on hydrology; and Climate data analysis: techniques for climate data analysis.

The school is open for undergraduate and graduate (masters or doctoral) students and staffs (permanent or non-permanent). The school fees included lunch and coffee breaks at school location, social events (including ice breaker, city tour, and social dinner), and teaching materials. The school will be held at L’Aquila town. It is a Middle Age town, rich of art, history and wild nature. It is the capital city of Abruzzo and is located at an elevation of 2.341 feet (714 meters), in a valley dominated by the highest mountain of the Appennines, the Gran Sasso d’Italia. L’Aquila is located between the National Park “Parco Nazionale del Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga” and the Re-gional Park “Parco Naturale Regionale del Sirente-Velino”. It is about 100 km East of Rome.

Interested registrants are welcomed to register and the early-bird registration deadline is on June 20^th, 2018.

Attendants are also invited to contribute to the school´s poster session by submitting their posters.

In addition, there will be a 100€ discount for participants from FabSpace institutions. To do so, please type the word “FabSpace” in the field “Other special requests” of the online registration form (http://cetemps.aquila.infn.it/issaos/index.php/registration-2018/#form).

To register and find out more about ISSAOS 2018 please visit: http://cetemps.aquila.infn.it/issaos/

ISSAOS2018

ISSAOS2018 Brochure

ISSAOS2018 Flyer

After three days in a row of workshops the team of FabSpace 2.0 Darmstadt is satisfied by the results generated out of the latest FabSpace 2.0 Space Science Shop Workshop (S3). All involved participants of the event were agreed on the constructive working atmosphere during the workshop days. On top of that, project leader of cesah GmbH, Sascha Heising says “we were also able to prove that the concept of Keynote, Brainstorming and Deep Dive session worked perfectly and was highly accepted by the participants”. The project leader from TU Darmstadt Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Becker presented in the first day on the GNSS and elaborated future innovation possibilities. The assistant project leader from TU Darmstadt Dr.-Ing. Damian Bargiel was presenting the concept and possibilities of radar remote sensing, while the project manager Bayzidul Islam made an awesome job on the presentation on optical remote sensing and provided a lot of useful information for the participants.

Some of the participants while discussing during the workshop (Photo: FabSpace)

FabSpace Darmstadt kicked of the workshop on Tuesday, 6th of March, with the topic of Radar Remote sensing with the focus on Sentinel-1 radar satellite mission of Copernicus. The session was entitled as “SAR – Radar Image Processing for Application Development” by Dr. Bargiel. In this presentation Dr. Bargiel highlighted his recent research activities at TU Darmstadt and the potential of multi-temporal analysis of radar imagery for landscapes, crop classification and so on. This new way of how to think of radar imagery or maps for a whole region has a lot of hidden potential. For the attendees the results and explanations were just amazing and a great point to start thinking. Beside introducing this he also gave a very good overview of the concept and possibilities of the radar imagery and image processing technology. The feedback on this Keynote was outstanding and first ideas for new business were revealed just after minutes by the participants. “By seeing this, I can think about several business cases immediately”, says one of the workshop users. Therefore, in the end of the live presentation open discussion were carried out to explore the future possibilities of radar satellite Sentinel-1 imagery.

Dr. Damian Bargiel in discussion with participants (Photo: FabSpace)

The second day was all about “GNSS on the move” by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Becker. He showed the recent developments of satellite navigation and its influence on so many applications, especially smart mobility and smart city. On top of that he highlighted some of the projects within Digitalstadt Darmstadt strictly connected and often in the need of GNSS. He also mentioned the possibilities of the use of multi frequency or multi services to improve availability and accuracy of positioning services. Of course he also explained benefits, advantages and differences between the available GNSS services like GPS, Galileo and GLONAS. „The availability of low-cost dual-frequency Multi-GNSS chipsets opens a new age in stand-alone positioning for the mass market”, summarized Prof. Becker one of the results of his session. Like in the first session the audience created a few potential business applications right after his presentation in an elaborative open discussion.

Prof. Becker explains Potentials and Limitations for Smart Mobility (Foto: FabSpace)

The last session was all about Sentinel-2 the color vision of Copernicus, given by Bayzidul Islam. The keynote started with the brief introduction of the Sentinel-2 satellite and imagery. The presentation gave detailed information on the different level of available data provided by Sentinel-2 satellite, the technical details on the spectral bands, wavelengths, purposes and other image properties. The presentation also covered some use cases that developed by interplaying between visual, infrared and short wave bands. In the presentation Islam also told a story on how the Big Data generated by optical satellite Sentinel-2 imagery and other cutting age technologies like Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) are correlated with each other. The presentation demonstrated how Machine Learning algorithms like Deep Learning can be used to process petabytes of optical imagery to develop digital applications. In another part it was shown how Artificial Intelligence can enhance the usability of satellite imagery to make a better world for the sustainable future. It was also shown how we can use optical satellite Sentinel-2 imagery to develop system of a system which is the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). At the end of the day there were also open discussion with all participants to get to know better on those geospatial technologies.

Bayzidul Islam explains potentials of Sentinel 2 data (Photo: FabSpace)

Finally, the S3 Workshop revealed a couple of interesting challenges that might be tackled in future FabSpace events. If you want to learn more about it, just get in contact with FabSpace 2.0 Darmstadt staffs. The team is also looking forward to the next S3 Workshop with a focus on other fields of application.

More photos can be found here.

After having selected 14 new FabSpaces in various countries worldwide at the end of 2017, the FabSpace 2.0 project today officially inaugurated the first joint activity of the fourteen new FabSpaces during the FabSpace 2.0 Workshop on Sharing Practices to Spread the FabSpace Spirit. The workshop was held in Centre for Innovation and Technology Transfer Management of Warsaw University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland.

During the workshop, three key words are used as the main focus: Innovation, Simulation, and Earth Observation (EO). FabSpace 2.0 project aimed to stimulate (open) innovation in Earth Observation (among universities, civil society, corporates and public authorities) to make our planet a better place to live in by connecting EO (experts/data/SW) to other communities. This goal can be reached by providing trainings (technical, entrepreneurship, Bootcamps, etc.), workshops, innovation events, open days, infrastructure, communication, etc.

This workshop also placed a specific aim on sharing practices regarding operational and local awareness strategy. In this respect, the FabSpace 2.0 consortium stands ready to assist in the development of a comprehensive growth strategy for the new FabSpaces. The new FabSpaces will help consolidate the FabSpace 2.0 project’s mission all over the world, disseminating the services and helping to address the needs of final users of Earth Observation and geodata-based applications. The list of the new FabSpaces can be seen here.

This workshop was a one-day event attended by the consortium and the new FabSpaces representatives from France, Italy, Czech Republic, Spain, Lithuania, Armenia, Cyprus, The Netherlands, and Cameroon. The event was part of FabSpace 2.0 project progress meeting which held annually. Project Coordinator Josiane Mothe from University Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier (UPS), said: “I was very happy to welcome the new FabSpaces representatives. I found them very motivated. I’m convinced that they will be very successful in spreading the FabSpace spirit. They have complementary domain applications than the founder FabSpaces, come from different countries for some of them. All this is a real opportunity for spreading the FabSpace concept.”

Upon officially inaugurated, each FabSpace could offer a “Space Science Shop” service, that collects the needs and the societal challenges of external stakeholders (Civil Society Organisations, Public Authorities and Companies), linked to application domains of EO and satellite navigation uses (i.e., Agriculture and Forestry; Energy; Environment and resource efficiency; Intelligent Transport Systems; Smart cities; Health and well-being). The scope is to provide independent participatory research support in response to concerns experienced by external stakeholders, offering a demand-driven and bottom-up approach to the FabSpace facility and screening questions provided by these stakeholders.

One of the new FabSpaces manager, Prof. Diofantos G. Hadjimitsis from ERATOSTHENES Research Center, Cyprus University of Technology said, “The ERATOSTHENES Research Center is excited to have joined the FabSpace 2.0 project. We believe that the FabSpace 2.0 network shares our goals and vision to develop and promote innovative Earth Observation applications and services using open spatial data and geo-information technologies. This provides the ERATOSTHENES Research Center at the Cyprus University of Technology (School of Engineering and Technology) within the EXCELSIOR project (www.excelsior2020.eu) with the ability to become an open innovation centre in the Eastern Mediterranean region and improve its contribution to the socio-economic and environmental performance of Cyprus through the development and application of innovative Earth Observation applications, products and services. We believe that FabSpace approach brings a significant added-value in the promotion of new EO based applications and paves the way for the creation of new start-ups providing job opportunities and professional growth for students and researchers, establishing mutually beneficial relationship in Europe and beyond.”.

The founder FabSpaces and the new FabSpaces are part of the international FabSpace 2.0 network that will be launched at the beginning of 2019, and its legal status will be defined according to the results of the report on European and Non-European initiatives with which FabSpace 2.0 can create synergies. To this aim, existing initiatives, mainly in Europe, will be monitored and possible actions will be defined. Given the particular added value of Earth Observation data and Satellite Navigation services in countries with less ground infrastructures (i.e. developing countries) specific attention will also be given to the developing countries as much business markets are expected to grow. In the end, the network will be extended worldwide.

Figure 1. FabSpace 2.0 Workshop with the New FabSpaces

After going through a selection process, the consortium and the European Advisory Board of FabSpace 2.0 selected 14 new FabSpaces to contribute in highlighting the achievement of European space programmes and thereby European space data and broadcast a standard to foster open innovation in Universities 2.0 and possibly develop new applications and services enabled by space related data.

The FabSpace 2.0 project announces its expansion with 14 new FabSpaces located in various countries worldwide. The new FabSpaces will help consolidate the FabSpace 2.0 project’s mission all over the world, disseminating the services and helping to address the needs of final users of Earth Observation and geodata-based applications.

A local University or Educational Institutions compose each new FabSpace. The new FabSpaces are opening at the beginning of 2018 and are joining the existing FabSpace 2.0 network. The new 14 FabSpaces are:

• Bordeaux FabSpace (France) – Bordeaux INP, NSEIRB-MATMECA School of Engineers, Talence;
• Brest FabSpace (France) – GIS Bretagne Télédétection (IMT Atlantique), InnovationBrest, Plouzané;
• Nice FabSpace (France) – Université Côte d’Azur Le Grand Château, Faculty of Sciences; SKEMA Business School Nice;
• Venezia FabSpace (Italy) – IE4ST – Istituto Europeo per lo Sviluppo Tecnologico, Venezia;
• Torino FabSpace (Italy) – Politecnico di Torino, ITHACA, Torino;
• L’Aquila FabSpace (Italy) – The Center of Excellence CETEMPS of the University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila;
• Pavia FabSpace (Italy) – Università Degli Studi di Pavia, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell’Informazione, Pavia;
• Prague FabSpace (Czech Republic) – Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Prague;
• Castellon de la Plana FabSpace (Spain) – Universitat Jaume I, Institute of New Imaging Techniques Castellon de la Plana;
• Vilnius FabSpace (Lithuania) – Vilnius University, Faculty of Chemistry and Geosciences, Institute of Geosciences Vilnius;
• Yerevan FabSpace (Armenia) – National Academy of Sciences of The Republic of Armemia, Institute For Informatics and Automation Problems, Yerevan;
• Yaoundé FabSpace (Cameroon) – EUREKA Geo, Institute de Formation Professionnelle Spécialisé dans les métiers de la Géomatique;
• Limassol FabSpace (Cyprus) – Cyprus University of Technology, Eratosthenes Research Center, Limassol;
• Noordwijk FabSpace (The Netherlands) – Space Solutions Foundation and Wageningen University and Research, Earth Informatics, Noordwijk.

Each FabSpace will offer a “Space Science Shop” service, that collects the needs and the societal challenges of external stakeholders (Civil Society Organisations, Public Authorities and Companies), linked to application domains of EO and satellite navigation uses (i.e., Agriculture and Forestry; Energy; Environment and resource efficiency; Intelligent Transport Systems; Smart cities; Health and well-being). The scope is to provide independent participatory research support in response to concerns experienced by external stakeholders, offering a demand-driven and bottom-up approach to the FabSpace facility and screening questions provided by these stakeholders.

The FabSpace 2.0 network is also organising activities such as Open Days, Innovation Events (e.g. Hackathons, Start-Up Weekends, App Camps), workshops and conferences, bootcamps and many other open events as part of the project. The new FabSpaces are welcome to replicate them in their country/region and participate to the FabSpace 2.0 European innovation events and contests. Additionally, they can participate in the bootcamps organized by the six initial FabSpaces.

“FabSpace 2.0 is a very innovative project, working at the intersection of different cultures and interests, with Universities, students, public administrations and industry. We are very glad to have 14 new FabSpaces as they represent an asset for the growth of our network and for the evolution of our collective thinking and capacities,” said Marcello Maranesi from University of Rome Tor Vergata, leader of the FabSpace 2.0 network dissemination.

The international FabSpace 2.0 network will be launched at the beginning of 2019, and its legal status will be defined according to the results of the report on European and Non-European initiatives with which FabSpace 2.0 can create synergies. To this aim, existing initiatives, mainly in Europe, will be monitored and possible actions will be defined. Given the particular added value of Earth Observation data and Satellite Navigation services in countries with less ground infrastructures (i.e. developing countries) specific attention will also be given to the developing countries as much business markets are expected to grow. In the upcoming year, the project aims to extend the network to more countries worldwide.

New FabSpaces Location