GSCB Workshop 24 th September EARSC Views agreed with ESA Results of EARSC-ESA Workshop on Ground Segment Evolution Vision and Strategy 02 September 2015 ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 1
European Association of Remote Sensing Companies : EARSC 1. EARSC is the European trade association looking after the EO services industry 75 members in 23 countries • Satellite operators, data providers, value adding companies • Focus to help companies develop by opening new business opportunities • 2. EARSC Mission: to foster the development of the European EO geo- information services industry 3. EARSC Ambition: to support the creation of a “Marketplace” whereby the industry can do • business single marketplace supporting multiple merchants • respecting IPR, security, privacy, and innovative business models • providing a European solution alternative to the US IT giants. • primary offer turns to “services” and away from “projects” • ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 2
In the Context of ESA GSCB 1. EARSC has reviewed current ESA GS Evolution Strategy impression very positive • Opportunities for industry recognised and industry ready to invest • alongside institutional players keen to work with ESA to promote and realise vision; plan CMin2016 • 2. Agreed principles: moving user to data; connecting stakeholder communities; • interoperability of systems and communities; common tools and infrastructure; defined set of values; procurement focus on services 3. Key EARSC concerns: Stronger alignment with overall ESA EO-strategy • Clarification of role of value-adding sector vs. institutional players • Alignment with initiatives and programmes of European Commission • Industry voice and governance • International competition is acting now • ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 3
European EO Services Industry - results from 2015 survey 63% = Proportion of companies with less than 10 EO employees: 96% with less than 50 employees 451 companies in Europe 6811 direct employees € 910m revenue ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 4
Driving a European Industrial Policy Identify and agree key elements of a future EO industrial strategy including: 1. Drive an industrial strategy to create a European Marketplace for EO services - Overcome fragmentation while maintaining diversity (supply & demand) - Provide common/easy access to data/information for the potential users - Provide a network of collaboration sites with e-commerce - Develop appropriate links to ICT initiatives (Big Data, cloud etc) such as Helix-Nebula, ELIXIR, EPOS, Etc - Promote agreed governance structure for further defining roles of private, academic and public actors. - Develop operating rules to protect; IPR, security, privacy, and the legal aspects of access to free and open data. - Move the public sector from defining solutions in favor of defining information needs (user federation & anchor tenancy) 2. Increased institutional focus on R&D and private sector enablement; create opportunities and safe investment environment for commercial players ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 5
Roles for the EO Industry Sector – For Example:- An intelligent supplier to the Core GS - Provider of complementary, commercial elements in all other domains - Analyse and mobilise the markets and user base - Contribute commercial components in non-commercial platforms - Establish commercial Platforms in Outreach and Stimulating Element - Contributing EO Data Expertise in platforms of Stimulating Element - Contribute with technical solutions and in consultations to Enabling Element - Define objectives in industrial/economic domain, measure, assess and report - Support of initiatives and programmes for export markets - - Develop requirements on ESA Core GS function services to best support EO Innovation Europe in particular industry needs - Detail Open Source ambitions and approaches to reflect correct balance Open Source/Proprietary within EO Innovation Europe ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 6
Concrete next steps Organise industrial perspective to: - Develop common and shared perspective of the infrastructure (EO Innovation Europe) and how it should be governed - Include all stakeholders; industry, EC (Grow, RTD, Connect), ESA - Establish a transparent process of regular dialogue, alignment, complementing related EC and (EC and ESA-) Member State initiatives - Coordination as part of generation of implementation plan - Coordination as part of rules, policy, legal definition process - Complement existing institutional fora through industrial consultation mechanism: Regular meetings (every 4 months and including EC) to jointly monitor progress and discuss options ESA UNCLASSIFIED – For Official Use - Slide 7
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