On the morning of December 15, 2022, at Phenikaa University, the Launching Ceremony of the Project Climate change Adaptation using Digital geospatial twins and Earth Observation (CADEO) (CADEO) took place with the participation of Participation of 6 universities. The kick-off session was held in a combined form of in-person and online.

The consortium includes two EU Higher Education Institutions (Politecnico di Milano, IT and Lund University, SE), four Vietnamese HEIs (Hanoi University of Mining andGeology, Hue University, Vietnamese-German University and Phenikaa University) and one Vietnamese privatecompany (VidaGis). Politecnico di Milano is the project coordinator. The project consists of designing, implementing, and blending teaching of four new innovative courses, training of trainers in HEIs of Vietnam, development of required digital infrastructure for Vietnamese HEIs, and dissemination of the results to wider society. Courses for higher education programmes focusing on: Earth Observation (EO), Digital Twin Earth, Geospatial Web applications and Geospatial Intelligence. Deployment of cutting-edge eLearning systems, co-designed by different EU and Vietnam HEIs and an industry partner with the participation of key stakeholders.