The main objective of the EUGENE project is to foster collaboration between pan-European organisations in the field of earth observation and to strengthen the coordination of national and regional programmes and organisations in their work towards GEO.

In the short term, the EUGENE project will contribute to a coherent European position for GEO with special attention to the preparation of the GEO Ministerial Summit taking place in Peking in November 2010.

Contributions to the European GEO strategy are to be made by proposing a structured approach for three selected GEO Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs) as a subset to start with: Climate, Disasters and Water. A consolidated view on the status quo in European earth observations has been provided in three reports - one for each of the aforementioned SBAs. These reports formed the basis for discussion with expert communities at three EUGENE workshops which took place in spring 2010. More...

The project aims for starting a process that should ultimately lead to the development of a strong and sustained European earth observing component as part of GEOSS. Europe should take its obvious opportunities to obtain a leading position in some areas of earth observation associated with a high visibility of its technical and scientific strengths on the international level.