Held at the European Satellite Centre in Madrid, Spain, the ‘Space Data Space’ workshop - led by ESA in partnership with the European Space Policy Institute - explored how partners can store and share space data. This is particularly valuable during times of crisis, especially when combined with airborne and ground-based data, or detailed information about critical infrastructure, for example.

ESA’s Pascal Legai, Senior Security Advisor to the Director General of ESA, opened the workshop by giving the floor to the Director of the European Satellite Centre, Ambassador Sorin Ducaru.

One of the keynote speakers, Alberto Palomo, Chief Data Officer of the Government of Spain, said: “Data per se is not valuable, it becomes so only if you transform it and make actual use of it.”