EWALD Mid-Term meeting

On the 21^st of March, the Mid-term meeting of the EWALD project took place in Brussels – a project funded by the European Executive Research Agency of the European Commission, and coordinated by Professor Svitlana Lyubchyk from Lusófona University.

The project’s main objective is to develop an innovative framework to provide an Early Warning System (EWS) and responses to the Land Degradation threatening the EU from its external border, using multi-source and multi-scale Earth Observation (EO) data. Land degradation (LD) is the world's greatest environmental challenge affecting the environment, agriculture, and human wellbeing. Intensified by natural disasters and desertification, the LD may present potential risks and socioeconomic tension at the European Union (EU) frontier.

In the mid-term meeting, the main progresses of the project were presented by all the teams of the Consortium related to the Work Packages of theirs responsibility, including: Technologies; Capacity Building; Strategies and Management.  It was also discussed the progresses of Lusofona´s coordination team on project management, particularly related to the communication and dissemination plan of the project and the data management plan.

All teams from COFAC (PT), RHEINISCHE FRIEDRICH-WILHELMS-UNIVERSITAT BONN (DE), SCIENTIFIC CENTRE FOR AEROSPACE RESEARCH OF THE EARTH OF THE INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCE (UA), ZILINSKA UNIVERZITA V ZILINE (SK), LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY ECOMM CO( UA), RESOURCE ENGENEERING COMPANY (MA), UNIVERSITE CADI AYYAD (MA)  of the Consortium were represented in the meeting, either in presence or online.