August 11, 2020 / Last updated : October 13, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Acceleration Programmes

BalticSatApps Success Stories: GlobKids, Poland

In November 2018, the Educational Team of Instructors in Kreatikon Company in Poland near Krakow discovered, how deep the European Space Agency´s (ESA) resources are. Training for teachers has shown […]

June 8, 2020 / Last updated : June 8, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

BalticSatApps Online Hackathon June 18–24, 2020 – great test for new ideas for short-term events!

Satellite Data Hackathon online? Never gonna happen, except now it will! A hackathon has be considered as an event of any duration where people come together and form groups for […]

January 8, 2020 / Last updated : January 8, 2020 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

BalticSatApps was partly interacting with OceanHack 2019 winning team led by Junior Research Fellow of Tartu Observatory

The winning team IceWise plans to combine Sentinel-1 data with ice thickness measurements made by citizens. Part of the app would be a map where layers with different data could […]

December 13, 2019 / Last updated : December 13, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

First time organized WeSeaChallenge succeeded great!

WeSeaChallenge idea competition aimed to produce novel solutions for supporting the sustainable planning and monitoring of marine environment by applying Copernicus-based satellite data used together with other sources of information. […]

September 16, 2019 / Last updated : September 16, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

Space Apps Challenge 2019 takes place on 18–20 October in Tartu!

Do want to tell a story about your city, country, or your planet? Are you an Earth and Space data enthusiast? Want to use global data and satellite images to […]

September 11, 2019 / Last updated : September 11, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen BalticSatApps

Satellite data to help with improving the condition of the Baltic Sea

A great deal of work is carried out by the Baltic Sea region countries with the goal of improving the condition of their maritime environment and the Baltic Sea at […]

May 3, 2019 / Last updated : February 5, 2021 Johanna Aaltonen BalticSatApps

Hack for Sweden 2019 multiplied amount of hackers from last year

The Hack for Sweden was held on 4–6 April in Stockholm, Sweden. The Swedish National Space Agency SNSA was promoting space data in general and Copernicus data in particular. The […]

April 29, 2019 / Last updated : April 29, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen BalticSatApps

BalticSatApps Workshop (Hackathon) was great success!

On 26 – 27 April 2019 the BalticSatApps Workshop was organized at the Cracow University of Technology, Poland. The aim of the event was to find a solution with help […]

January 30, 2019 / Last updated : January 30, 2019 Johanna Aaltonen Innovation Events

Space contest and Sustainable Development Goals at Antler program for start-up founders

As part of the work to promote the ESA BIC Sweden, the Swedish National Space Agency participated in Stockholm on 28 January 2019 in a 24-hour business development and pitch […]