EWALD Seminar

On 20 January 2026, a hybrid seminar of the EWALD project was held at Universidade Lusófona, in Lisbon, bringing together the project partners with the aim of reflecting on the progress achieved and defining the way forward in the final year of the project’s implementation.

The session focused on the main results achieved and future priorities in the areas of project management, research activities and researcher mobility/exchange. Participants engaged in discussions on scientific outcomes, coordination milestones and the next strategic steps, as the project moves towards its successful completion.

One of the highlights of the seminar was the official welcome of a new project partner, QuanTag IT Solutions (Germany), which joined the EWALD consortium at the end of 2025. The integration of QuanTag strengthens the project’s technical expertise and collaborative network, supporting its interdisciplinary and international character. In this context, partners also had the opportunity to present their organisations, teams and specific contributions to the project.

The coordinating institution of the project, Universidade Lusófona, was represented by Prof. Svitlana Lyubchyk (EWALD Coordinator), Prof. Francisco Silva Pinto and Prof. João Rodrigues, lecturers on the Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering and Management at the Faculty of Engineering of Universidade Lusófona and researchers at RCM2+.

Overall, the meeting proved to be a valuable moment of sharing, alignment and cooperation among the partners, reinforcing the common commitment to achieving impactful results as the EWALD project enters its final phase.

EWALD is a project funded by the European Union and coordinated by Universidade Lusófona. The project aims to develop an innovative framework for an Early Warning System (EWS) and responses to land degradation (LD) that threatens the European Union from its external borders, using multi-source and multi-scale Earth Observation (EO) data.

Source: DEEP TECHLAB