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EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring weather, climate and the environment with the purpose of supplying reliable and accurate weather and climate-related satellite data, images and products – 24 hours a day, 365 days a year – to the National Meteorological Services of the EU Member States and other users worldwide.

EUMETSAT provides data, products and support services to the Copernicus information services and user communities, with a focus on marine, atmosphere and climate.

Regulatory sandboxes are experimental rooms to test policies or business models in an environment with minimal legal requirements. Certain governments have already started to adopt the concept, which originally evolved in the fintech startup context. It helps governments better understand new technology and its regulatory implications

Manual that includes information about Open Policy Making as well as the tools and techniques policy makers can use to create more open and user led policy

Nowcasting is a forecasting methodology that is becoming increasingly popular in economics. The use case considers the potential use of Νowcasting in the context of economic policy setting and sets the potential value of an extended use of Νowcasting against different contexts.

This use case covers the methods that can assist policymakers throughout all stages of the policy cycle. It explains the sources for these data and how the outputs can be used to gain. understanding of stakeholders’ and citizen’s opinions on policies and strategies

The Smart Fire Department could be one aspect of a Smart Government scenario. Intelligently networked objects such as smoke detectors, smartphones, surveillance cameras and drones can support the work of the fire department thus leading to tracking behaviour, enhanced situational awareness, sensor-driven decision analytics, process optimisation, optimised resource consumption, complex autonomous systems.

Sensors perfect the transport infrastructures by reporting automatically about its utilisation and current condition. Sensor-generated information about the stress on roads, tracks, canals, bridges and tunnels helps civil engineering authorities to better estimate the condition of the infrastructure. They recognise and repair damages in the transport infrastructure in order to ensure an optimal traffic flow. This is supplemented by indications from citizens via apps.

The aim of the project is to construct a computer-based simulation model as a decision-support tool for policy-making in the early life course. This entails building a model with micro-level data derived from existing longitudinal studies to quantify, for policy purposes, the underlying drivers and determinants of progress in the early life course.

Expressing and visualising opinions on policies.

Information to the citizens and companies of the State of Bavaria in Germany in the domain of energy sources, including renewable energy.