Co-organised by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA)
and the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water (PSIPW)
29-30 May 2025, Vienna, in person, with selected sessions in hybrid format
This event is restricted to Space4Water stakeholders, featured professionals, young professionals and representatives of Indigenous communities featured on the portal.
Objectives
At the fifth Space4Water Stakeholder Meeting the community has an opportunity to meet and exchange. The objectives for the meeting include:
- Fostering knowledge exchange between Space4Water stakeholders, professionals, young professionals, and Indigenous voices;
- Presentations of country cases;
- Co-developing space-based solutions for water-related challenges; and
- Identifying and addressing other ways to improve Space4Water community interaction and achieving shared objectives.
Dates and location
The workshop will take place in an in person format with limited possibility for online participation 29-30 May 2025 at Conference Room 2, at the Vienna International Centre. Accepted participants will receive an email notification from the meeting organisers.
31 March 2025: Application deadline for those who apply for funding and are submitting a country case or water-related challenge to be addressed, or a draft solution to be presented and further refined during the meeting.
30 April 2025: Application deadline for self-funded participants submitting a country case study, water challenge or space-based solution, but are self-funded. Please take into account the times to receive a visa for Austria at the respective embassy or consulate may take more than five weeks, and apply early if you need a visa.
11 May 2025: Deadline for self-funded applicants with no presentation during the meeting who contribute to solutions.
Registration
Participation is restricted to Space4Water stakeholders, featured professionals, young professionals and representatives of Indigenous communities featured on the portal.
If you are not yet part of the Space4Water Community of Practice and are interested in joining (the event and the community) apply as a community member first, for funded participants community applications have to be made no later than 31 March, for self funded no later than 15 April 2025. Read the instructions how to join below.
If your organisation is not yet a Space4Water stakeholder, but active in using space-based technology or data for water (resource) management, hydrology or ecosystem preservation please apply to become a stakeholder first, by filling this form.
If you are a young professional using space-based technology or data for water-related issues and are not yet part of our young professionals, fill in this form.
Note: applying as a stakeholder or young professional, does not mean you applied for attending at the meeting. You need to do both to be considered for participation.
Contact
All Space4Water community members have the contact details of the Space4Water project manager. If you are a new member, please register via the links shared under Registration, and you will be contacted by our staff.
Please refer to event website for information on funding applications, preliminary agenda and hotel recommendations.
