CEOS Strategy for Earth Observation Education and Training The CEOS strategy for Earth observation education and training is to establish an effective coordination and partnership mechanism among CEOS agencies and institutions offering education and training around the world. The key objective of the strategy is to facilitate activities that substantially enhance international education and training in Earth observation techniques, data analysis, interpretation, use, and application. The strategy will: allow space agencies, education and training providers, UN agencies, and other entities to coordinate activities for specific education and training programmes and to exchange experiences and information; provide opportunities for CEOS agencies appropriate to network with educational and training institutions; provide for the timely integration and refresh of Earth observation data, information, and techniques into educational and training programmes; provide an opportunity for CEOS agencies to disseminate materials, data, information, experts, and guidance as appropriate for improving Earth observation training and education around the world; promote a growing cadre of specialists in Earth observation who will address the growing environmental questions facing the world and who will develop expanded practical applications of Earth observation data and information world wide; enable better and more far-reaching outreach to the international community and general public; underscore the relevance of Earth observation for formulating policy and for addressing environmental and development issues at local, national, regional, and global levels, as well as, for addressing scientific questions of relevance. Major Partnerships At the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD)the CEOS Secretariat emphasized the importance using of Earth observation (EO) data to support sustainable development activities into the draft WSSD report. With the support of a number of national delegations, CEOS was successful in getting direct references to the use of EO data into the final Plan of Implementation that was adopted by the heads-of-state at the WSSD in Johannesburg. From the action items that were generated by the WSSD the concept of a "CEOS Follow-Up Programme" was born. Type II Partnership The CEOS Type II Partnership was born within the WGEdu. This was a proposal from NOAA and supported by many other organizations. The intention was to make a substantive contribution to the Plan of Implementation that would come out of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). The proposal was submitted to the UN secretariat for the Commission on Sustainable Development by CEOS secretariat as a CEOS Type II Partnership. This Partnership was accepted.

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