EUMETSAT Annual Report 2021

EUMETSAT ANNUAL REPORT 2021
MANAGEMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
COMMUNICATION AND OUTREACH
Due to pandemic restrictions, large events in 2021 could not take
place fully in person.
EUMETSAT, the World Meteorological Organization and the
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)
held an online workshop in February for member state weather
services’ communication teams. The workshop was a useful
platform for sharing experiences and ideas for communicating
about weather and climate issues in Europe.
Charging stations for electric vehicles are available on EUMETSAT premises
SUSTAINABLE EUMETSAT
EUMETSAT is committed to sustainability and to taking measures
to limit its carbon footprint, for example, by installing energy
efficient lighting, scrapping the use of non-recyclable coffee cups
and providing chargers for electric vehicles.
The Technical Infrastructure Building again received the highest
level Certified Energy Efficiency Data Centre Award (CEEDA) in
2021. The certification recognises the building’s energy efficiency.
EUMETSAT already receives 100% of its electricity supply from
renewable sources. The Technical Infrastructure Building is the
largest consumer of energy at EUMETSAT, accounting for 62% of
the campus’s entire energy use. Ensuring it is run as efficiently as
possible provides value for our member states.
In a first, the annual EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite
Conference, which took place on 20-24 September, was held
fully online. This posed challenges for the organising team, as
this type of conference required a different type of programme
and technology to be effective. The conference attracted 700
participants, about 40% more than usual.
As part of activities to promote the Copernicus Programme and
WEkEO, EUMETSAT launched a new massive open online course
(MOOC) on the theme of artificial intelligence and Earth monitoring
in October. The course was hosted on the FutureLearn MOOC
platform. It included video interviews with more than 40 experts,
text, animations, and a series of Jupyter notebooks to show
people how to work with Copernicus data and machine learning
techniques on the WEkEO platform. The course attracted nearly
10,000 participants and has led to an increase of more than 5,000
new users for WEkEO. The MOOC was a joint project involving
EUMETSAT, the ECMWF, Mercator Ocean International and the
European Environment Agency.
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