UN/Spain Workshop on GNSS and related space technologies for urban sustainability challenges
- Start Date:
- Nov. 18, 2024
- End Date:
- Nov. 22, 2024
- City:
- Malaga
- Country:
- Spain
- Region:
- Europe
- Description:
- The workshop will introduce GNSS-based technology and other space technologies in support of urban sustainability challenges; promote the greater exchange of actual experiences with specific applications; and define recommendations and findings to be forwarded as a contribution to the Office for Outer Space Affairs and the International Committee on Global Navigation Satellite Systems (ICG), particularly, in forging partnerships to strengthen and deliver capacity-building.
- Targeted Audience:
- The workshop is being planned for a total of 100 participants including scientists, engineers, university educators, and policy-and-decision makers and senior subject-matter experts from the following groups: international, regional, national and local research and development institutions, United Nations agencies, intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations or industry, academia, think tanks and educational institutions. The Office for Outer Space Affairs is committed to achieving 50/50 gender balance in its programs and ensuring a balanced representation from different perspectives. Women are encouraged to apply.
- Expected Outcomes:
- The expected outcomes of the workshop will be recommendations and findings on discussed topics to be adopted by the workshop participants; preliminary agreement of cooperation between countries in the region and action plan addressing identified issues/concerns. The discussions at the workshop will also be linked to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to its targets set out for Sustainable Development Goals, such as, - SDG 3: Good health and wellbeing - GNSS positioning enables individual patients, staff or equipment to be monitored, and response teams directed more efficiently; - SDG 7: Affordable and clean energy - GNSS reflectometry techniques can produce scatterometry models to assist in the optimum positioning of off-shore wind farms; - SDG 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure - GNSS signals can be used for navigation and positioning of in-orbit space operations particularly from low-Earth orbit to cis-Lunar); and - SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities - GNSS is widely used for urban planning in order to pinpoint structures and reference points for cadastral and urban planning purposes.
- Host:
- United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
- Organizer:
- United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs
- Format/Training Type:
- Workshop
- Language:
- English
- Attendance:
- Closed/Invite Only
- Application Deadline:
- Aug. 18, 2024
- Qualifications:
Experience in either space technologies and their connection to urban sustainability challenges (e.g. Food Security, Water Management, Environmental Impact and Climate Change, Smart Cities) Or Experience in urban sustainability challenges
- Contact Name:
- Jorge Del Rio Vera
- Contact Email:
- jorge.delriovera@un.org
- Fees:
- No Fees
- Link:
- https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2024/un_spain-workshop-gnss-and-spacetechnologies-urbansustainability.html
- Thematic Area:
- Agriculture & Food Security, Climate, Water Resources
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