Competition to find a new name for Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES)
The European Commission organized this school competition for young people attending the last two years of secondary school before university. School classes in all 25 EU Member States as well as Norway and Switzerland were invited to participate. The Competition was won by a school from Poland.
The European Commission competition team.
Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) is a European initiative that will provide the information necessary to monitor and forecast the environment. The initiative is highly ambitious due to the diversity of its components (satellites, ground-based, airborne and waterborne elements) and the wide range of its applications. Through GMES the state of our environment and its short, medium and long-term development will be monitored to support decisions or investments. GMES provides a centralized system at the service of European citizens to improve the quality of life in terms of their environment and security. More
