Posts in category: News

On April 25^th 2023, Aristotelis C. Tagarakis represented SPADE project at a webinar that was conducted as part of the Open Research Webinars series (https://opensourceinnovation.eu/).

Through a selection of state-of-the-art project presentations and demonstrations, this series of webinars introduce software research projects that help shape the future of open-source software and the IT industry. Co-organized by OW2 and the Eclipse Foundation, the webinars focus on international partners leveraging open source in European publicly-funded collaborative research and innovation programs.

This webinar enabled the chance to provide valuable information about SPADE:

• General description of the project (objectives, mission, consortium partners);
• SPADE Pilots (forestry, crop production and livestock);
• SPADE Ecosystem (platform and large scale demonstration);
• Open Research (open data, open tools, open access publications and open platform);
• Project results;
• Next steps

Nuremberg hosted Embedded World 2023 Exhibition & Conference between 14th and 16th of March providing a valuable opportunity to engage with a large number of experts and qualified suppliers from all over the world aiming to develop ideas and concepts for the future

ECLIPSE Foundation, a partner of SPADE project, presented the project’s scope and main goals at the event. The participation with a SPADE stand enabled to showcase SPADE’s achievements to date and outlined its future goals, highlighting the importance of collaboration and knowledge sharing in advancing drone technology. In fact, learning and engaging other stakeholders in learning about the various impacts and risks of drones as multi-purpose vehicles on the “Farm-to-fork” ecosystems was the main strategy for this event.

From February 27^th – March 2^nd, 2023Barcelona hosted the largest and most influential connectivity event called Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2023, where technology, community, and commerce gathered under one roof. This congress grouped 202 countries and territories represented via 2400 exhibitors and more than 88.500 attendees. 50% were directors and/or senior executives from top global companies, international governments, and businesses in technology.

SPLORO, through Alberto Sierra, a partner of the SPADE project, disclosed information about the project’s scope. He unveiled the project’s ambitious mission, which is to create an intelligent ecosystem through the deployment of UAVs, transforming multiple sectors such as crop production and forestry via multiple variables.

The project’s kick-off meeting took place between 6^th and 7^th of October, 2022 in Thessaloniki, in Greece. During the first day, the project coordinator, the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), opened the meeting, giving a brief presentation of the project, followed by short presentations of Work Packages (WP) by each leader. After, a session was dedicated to the three pilot cases and another to governance of the project.

This meeting was an opportunity for partners to speak and clarify how they can interact with each other in order to fulfil the project’s goals. SPADE consortium is looking to innovate the use of drones and to impact on new business models, on an updated regulatory framework both at international and national levels, and for improved well-being and safety of the society.