The action aims at raising awareness and knowledge of students and pupils on Copernicus Programme, remote sensing, GIS and related specializations. Arousing of interest in young members of the society will increase their awareness of EO capabilities and facilitate them usage of geoformation in their professional life.

Lectures will be prepared based on Copernicus services. The content will be modified according to the main field of study and in case of pupils to the age of the listeners. Every lecture will be composed of basic parts: introduction do RS, Copernicus program, Sentinel data, access to Copernicus services, examples of the use of data offered by Copernicus. All lectures will be conducted in Polish.

During lectures and by WEB CBK PAN will announce Knowledge Contest of Copernicus services. This competition will be dedicated for two age categories – pupils and students. Participants will develop a proposal of utilization of Copernicus services. The best elaborations will be rewarded by one-day course of satellite images and Copernicus data processing organized by Department of Earth Observation of CBK PAN.

Lectures will be given in CBK PAN office in Warsaw and also at universities in the whole country. In the cities of Warsaw, Sieradz and Bielsk Podlaski there will be classes for local school children.

Outputs and Results

• Lecture programme itself, training materials in the form of presentations
• Students who will participate in one-day training will be given the certificate
• To assess the impact of our actions, three months after lectures or presentations, we will carry out a questionnaire among participants to enumerate new Copernicus users and gather their conclusions
• Detailed illustration about the outcome of this action, e.g. material, workshops, etc.; the impact on user uptake should be additionally given