Apply to the BIGSKYEARTH Training School

The 1^st BigSkyEarth Training School will take place at the German Aerospace Center facilities in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany, 4-9 April, 2016.

It will gather around 30 researchers for hands-on training on Big Data analytics in astronomy and Earth observation with six expert instructors from the EU and the USA.

The COST Action BigSkyEarth provides grants to 18 trainees from BigSkyEarth member countries for travel and costs of the school attendance.

WG3 and WG4 meeting in Dubrovnik

Dates: October 5 & 6, 2015.

If you plan to attend the meeting, please register HERE.

The meeting is collocated with Astroinformatics 2015 conference. Information about the venue and hotel reservation are available HERE.

Contact person: Dejan Vinkovic (dejan  at  iszd.hr).

The second call for Short Term Scientific Missions

This is the second call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) within BigSkyEarth COST Action. Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers. A STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and/or methods not available in their own institutions/organisations.
STSM applicants must be engaged in an official research programme as a PhD Student or postdoctoral fellow or can be employed by, or affiliated to, an Institution or legal entity which has within its remit a clear association with performing research. The institutions/organisations where applicants pursue their main strand of research are considered as Home institutions. The Host institution is the institution/organisation that will host the successful applicant.

Why Should My Company Join Big-Sky-Earth?

The fields of astronomy and earth observation are both significant beneficiaries of recent developments in computer science, statistics, and data analysis that broadly fall under the term big data. Big-Sky-Earth is a Horizon 2020 funded COST network designed to bring these three communities together, boosting communication within and between the communities, and identifying common solutions to challenges faced in research and industry across them.

The first call for Short Term Scientific Missions

This is the first call for Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) within BigSkyEarth COST Action.
Short Term Scientific Missions (STSM) are exchange visits aimed at supporting individual mobility, strengthening existing networks and fostering collaboration between researchers. A STSM should specifically contribute to the scientific objectives of the COST Action, whilst at the same time allowing those partaking in the missions to learn new techniques, gain access to specific data, instruments and/or methods not available in their own institutions/organisations.
STSM applicants must be engaged in an official research programme as a PhD Student or postdoctoral fellow or can be employed by, or affiliated to, an Institution or legal entity which has within its remit a clear association with performing research. The institutions/organisations where applicants pursue their main strand of research are considered as Home institutions. The Host institution is the institution/organisation that will host the successful applicant.

MC and WG Meetings Held in Belgrade

The Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Belgrade, was the venue of BigSkyEarth’s meetings on March 30-31, 2015. The meetings were held by the Action’s Management Committee and all four Working Groups.

The meetings set the stage for upcoming Action’s activities. More information and photos are available at http://servo.aob.rs/big_sky_earth/

A group photo is available HERE.