With today’s contract signature, Jean-Jacques Dordain, Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA); Martin Zeil, Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs; and Thorsten Rudolph, CEO of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO) officially kicked off the GMES Masters innovation competition. The goal of this competition is to promote more widespread use of Earth observation data from the European GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) programme, thereby driving its advancement in the area of service applications. This ambitious project will be financed with nearly EUR 1 Million over the next three years, with ESA contributing half of it and the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and T-Systems co-financing the remaining amount. Learn More