Space for Climate Observatory (SCO) France Congress
Echoing to SPACE4Cities’ Challenges, adaptation strategies will be at the heart of the discussions, especially in cities. The Congress also aims to showcase and promote the role of public-private partnerships, just like SPACE4Cities’ pre-commercial procurement.
Expected highlights include: round tables and high-level discussions on climate and space policies, and on the role of businesses for innovative climate services; demonstrations of project results; presentation of the next batch of awarded projects.
What is SCO France?
Initiated in 2019 by the French space agency, CNES, SCO France coordinates and strives to grow a network of national SCOs. SCO France’s activities comprise funding, valorisation and dissemination of climate adaptation projects, community-building between space and climate ecosystems and capacity-building on space applications.
In addition, unlike SPACE4Cities’ unique Call for tenders, SCO France publishes an annual call for projects which already funded 68 projects developing space-based data and tools related to climate adaptation.