Ecosystem building and service incubator activities II

LandSense is one of four Horizon 2020 projects funded under the SC5-17-2015 - Demonstrating the concept of 'Citizen Observatories' call. The project started on 1st of September 2016 and aims to build a far-reaching citizen observatory for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring that will also function as a technology innovation marketplace. Led by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), 18 partners from 9 European countries have teamed up to mobilize and deliver an observatory and innovation marketplace that combines the powers of Citizen Science (CS) and Earth Observation (EO) for LULC monitoring. 

D6.8 Ecosystem building and services incubator II represents the update of the D6.3 Ecosystem building and services incubator I. As such, it reports the activities undertaken in the second half of the project with the goal of disseminating innovative elements within the LandSense project, facilitating collaboration, engaging identified stakeholders to understand and to use the LandSense results for their own interests/organization and ultimately providing feedback for more effective exploitation potential of the project results. 

Throughout the second half of the project consortium partners carried out many ecosystem building activities, actions and events, according to the time plan. Printable or digital informational dissemination material was distributed at each of the mentioned events. These actions followed the overall dissemination strategy. 

The report is structured into 5 distinct sections: 

• Section 1 provides introductory information with respect to the LandSense project and the context in which the current report has been elaborated. 
• Section 2 outlines the scope, objectives and the importance of Ecosystem building. 
• Section 3 presents LandSense partners corresponding activities, engagement and achievements in respect to Ecosystem building. 
• Section 4 provides overview of further activities and concluding remarks. 

Finally, the Annex of the report provides an overview of the LandSense documents used in its Ecosystem building activities.