Jan. 23 Weekly Round-up
🌍 Check out this week’s upcoming #EO related Deadlines, Training & Events
đź“… Deadlines
30 January. Application deadline. IAF Emerging Space Leaders Grant Programme. www.iafastro.org/activities/next-generation/emerging-space-leaders-grant-programme/
31 January. Abstract submission. 45th EARSeL Symposium: Navigating the Transformation of EO Education: Bridging Traditional and Emerging Learning Practices. www.conftool.net/earsel-symposium-2026/
31 January. Abstract submission. Soil & Water Resources Management for Combating Desertification in Drylands under Climate Change (SWDCC 2026). https://www.swdcc-conferences.com/
9 February. Application. In-person SAR Polarimetry & Interferometry Course. EO Africa R&D Facility. (African nation residents). www.eoafrica-rd.org/space-academy/face-to-face-courses-rdf2/face-to-face-course-on-sar-polarimetry-and-interferometry/
15 February. Proposal for Community Event. 2026 GEO Symposium & GEO-21 Plenary. https://earthobservations.org/internal/types-of-proposals-for-the-geo-symposium
15 February. Application. Training on EO for Resilience and Humanitarian Aid. https://www.unoosa.org/oosa/en/ourwork/psa/schedule/2026/unoosa-unuinweh-ceos-workshop.html
Registration open. EO AFRICA R&D FORUM 2026 – Achievement and Future Pathways. https://www.eoafrica-rd.org/eo-africa-rd-forum-2026-achievement-and-future-pathways/
Registration open. 5th ECMWF-ESA Machine Learning Workshop. https://events.ecmwf.int/event/488/
🎓Training
Webinar: 3 February 2026. Introduction to AI and ML (for weather). https://eumetcal.eu/en/ui#/page/Newsitem76
Online course. 10 & 17 February. Monitoring Water Quality in Lakes and Coastal Regions Using STREAM. NASA ARSET. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/monitoring-water-quality-lakes-coastal-regions-using-stream?utm_source=announcement&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=STREAM2026
Short Course. 10 February. Using EUMETView and Jupyter Notebooks to depict a Dust Event. https://eumetsat.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d8ZdDBNzSfu4Cr-d_m6_vg#/registration
Webinar. 19 February. Space Policy & Skills at Regional Level (EU). Nereus. www.nereus-regions.eu/2025/12/19/education-training-in-the-space-sector-xix-space-policy-skills-at-regional-level-19-february-2026/
Online course. 24 & 26 February. Visualizing Land Cover and Land Use Change with NASA Satellite Imagery. NASA ARSET. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/learn/trainings/visualizing-land-cover-land-use-change-nasa-satellite-imagery?utm_source=social&utm_medium=ext&utm_campaign=LCLUC2026
Training Seminars on EU Space Data and Services for Disaster Resilience. Expression of Interest Form. https://ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/SUNSHINE_TrainingSeminars_ExpressionOfInterest
👯Events and resources
18th European Space Conference, 27 – 28 January, Brussels, Belgium. https://spaceconference.eu/
SPACE4GEO General Assembly. 28 January. Side event at the 18th European Space Conference in Brussels. 14:30 at SQUARE Brussels Meeting Centre.
Open for submissions: Earth Observation. A new journal forming part of EGU’s open access collection. https://www.earth-observation.net/home.html
Voices from EuroGEO Interview Series. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jaI9AwmAFg
Global Climate Highlights 2025. https://climate.copernicus.eu/global-climate-highlights-2025
Monitoring the Global Ocean in 2025. https://www.mercator-ocean.eu/press-release/despite-the-start-of-la-nina-2025-ranks-among-the-three-warmest-ocean-years-since-1993/