Since 10 years, the GAGER master has prepared students for careers in land use planning, national security and the management of resources based on geographic information.

Graduates from this training, directly operational, are able to adapt to a wide variety of structures: decentralized local authorities, environmental impact and management studies offices, research institutes, national army, development of the territory, town planning, ….

GMES and Africa is an African Union program which, with the support of the European Union, has several objectives, including: Promoting the development in Africa of local capacities, institutional, human and technical resources for access and the exploitation of Earth Observation based services on an operational basis for sustainable development. This objective constitutes the main mission of the Master GAGER which, each year, successfully trains dozens of students from the five economic sub-regions of Africa and even outside Africa.

The hybrid international conference that the GMES and Africa Program is co-organizing with the University of Ngaoundéré from September 19 to 23, 2022, on the latter's campus in Cameroon, is an opportunity to take stock of these 10 years of the Master GAGER in open and distance training, to share the results and set new directions, in connection with Earth observation, for this training at the service of the development of Africa in particular and the world in general.

The session below underlie the issues that will be addressed during this meeting.

Session 1. Geomatics and land use planning.

Session 2. Geomatics, resource exploitation and management.

Session 3. Digital technologies and higher education.

As an epilogue to this International Conference, a training course open to young African teledetectors will be organized on 19 septembre, 2022. On September 20, 2022, a round table that will bring together specialists from various backgrounds, in order to discuss the question of FOAD , MOOCs and their integration into teaching curricula, online teaching and learning platforms made available to teachers and learners by universities wil be organinized at the opening of the Conference.