CANEUS (CANada-EUrope-US-Asia-Africa) network, founded in 1999, serves to bridge the gap between the ?haves? and ?have-nots? to develop common platform for emerging science & technology solutions for natural and man-made disaster management and climate change; agriculture, droughts and floods monitoring; ocean observations; tele-medicine for remote and rural areas; addressing possible new energy sources; STEM skill development amongst; and support capacity-building for sustainable socioeconomic development, in particular through small-satellite activities.

These international public/private partnerships between industry, university, and government stakeholders pool membership's resources to define and execute projects and initiatives connecting the ?haves? and ?have-nots?.

Over past 15 years, CANEUS has created international Consortia covering public-private-partnerships of stakeholders within Asia, Africa, Americas and Europe for developing, integrating and testing affordable space technology solutions through sharing of cost and benefits for forecasting, monitoring and mitigating disasters.

CANEUS participated in the ?Technical Advisory Missions? TAM undertaken by the UN-SPIDER-UNOOSA, UNDP, World Bank and further assisted governments in Vietnam, Kenya, Laos, Chile, Argentina, India, amongst others, to help set up early earning warning systems and disaster preparedness by undertaking ?Limited Objectives Demonstration? pilot projects to develop data standards and determine implementation barriers.

CANEUS was accorded special accreditation for the "International Organization" for the 2013 UN World DRR Conference? and also for the upcoming 2015 UN World Conference on DRR at Sendai, Japan.

The vision for CANEUS is to become the ?Virtual World Collaboratory? to provide a coordinated shared platform for international cooperation and information exchange and contribute to cost savings achieved through adequate preventive actions based on combinations of satellite EO data with other traditional sources of data provided to end users, including decision-makers, particularly in trans-boundary areas where accessible data is difficult.

A New Global Partnership: In its efforts towards creating a new global partnerships, CANEUS helps partners / countries by pairing end-users with technology developer?s, turning their problems into roadmaps for projects to produce a solution, avoiding the tech-push and pull, promoting the power of virtual collaboration thereby minimizing uncertainties, and finally, to provide educational forum by holding workshops and conferences for the dissemination of technical and programmatic development and infusion of emerging science & technology concepts into socio-economic applications.

CSSP: CANEUS created and has been championing the concept of Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity (CSSP). CANEUS core purpose, and it genuinely believes is that a shared development effort will promote cooperation, trust and interdependence, to the mutual benefit of all partners. Furthermore, complementary resources from across nations are needed to meet the evolving needs of diverse regions worldwide.

As space activities are globalized and diversified, they are becoming both more accessible and more relevant to collective safety, security and socio-economic needs. A growing number of governments and private companies are getting involved and a wide range of new applications are being developed that have far-reaching effects on the global economy, creating opportunities and challenges. However, currently there exists no global partnership to coordinate and organize all the disparate efforts ? especially one that ensures the availability of these capabilities to otherwise underserved countries.


CANEUS Programmes and Activities in Areas Relevant to the Subject of the Summit listed by the countries / regions:

The CANEUS Programmes and Activities undertaken worldwide directly and indirectly overlap and compliment the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. These initiatives building on the CANEUS vision and mission created in 1999, serves to bridge the gap between the ?haves? and ?have-nots?, and aligns with the Sustainable Development goals and targets covering People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership, that will stimulate action over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.

Whereas, these space science & technology applications and capacity building programs and activities have direct relevance to food & security (goal 2), health (goal 3), education (goal 4), water (goal 5), energy (goal 7), resilient infrastructure (goal 9), reduce inequality (goal 10), cities (goal 11), climate change (goal 13), marine resources (goal 14), ecosystems and biodiversity (goal 15), and partnerships for implementation (goal 17). These further contribute indirectly to reduce poverty (goal 1), gender equality (goal 5), employment (goal 8), sustainable consumption (goal 12) and justice & governance (goal 16).

These initiatives covering the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa regions builds on the CANEUS vision and mission created in 1999, and serves to bridge the gap between the ?haves? and ?have-nots?, which further aligns with the Sustainable Development goals and targets covering People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace, and Partnership.
Some of the major CANEUS programs and activities include:
1. The Nanotechnology for health, water and energy launched in 2001 and undertaken in the Americas, Europe, Japan and Korea;

2. The Space technology applications for socioeconomic development through international cooperation and information exchange launched in 2002 and undertaken worldwide;

3. The capacity-building covering educational training programs through webinars, courses, and workshops launched in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa in 2005;

4. The ?CSSP- Collective Safety, Security and Prosperity? for monitoring oceans, climate change, marine resources, and ecosystems, launched in 2009 at the EU parliament, African Leadership Summit and APEC Forums;

5. The illegal Fisheries and marine resources monitoring limited objective demonstrations program undertaken in Chile, Vietnam, Argentina, and Mexico together with the World Bank, European Commission, and others;

6. The Space technology advisory missions ? TAM to support the UN disaster preparedness and resilient infrastructure activities undertaken in Vietnam, Laos, Kenya, during 2011 through 2014 period;

7. The ?GlobalSat for DRR? initiative by bringing together space faring nations to find solutions to major problems facing mankind such as disasters, energy independence, water scarcity, health-care and education issues and accurate prediction of the weather, was launched through the UN Global DRR Platforms in 2011, 2013 and further at the UN World Conference on DRR in 2015;

8. The STEM for Human Skill Development program launched together with the NY Academy of Sciences and the Global STEM Alliance, was launched in India in 2015. The CANEUS STEM Alliance is working with several organizations across India to create nationwide STEM skills program that provides inclusive and holistic education to 10,000+ schools with a reach over one million students, particularly focusing on girls. Together with Government of India and stakeholders such as Intel, Cisco, amongst others, we held STEM educational Conferences/Seminars, and training the teachers;

9. The distributed energy generation at the village level through suitable renewable energy sources: solar: photovolataic or solar thermal, wind, biogas etc., was launched in Southern India spanning 100+ villages during 2014-15 period. These pilot projects aimed primarily at selected villages were undertaken to evaluate the feasibility of distributed power generation approach at how an economically-feasible power generation and distribution scheme can be implemented at the village level, assuming a micro-financing type of credit is available.

10. The Global Aerospace Monitoring System for natural and man-made disasters program together with UNOOSA, IAA, undertaken in Eastern Europe and Africa during 2009-2014 periods.

All are expected to contribute to the SDG and actions over the next fifteen years in areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.

NO - 1. Dr. Milind Pimprikar, Montreal, Canada, Canadian
2. Dr. Prakash Patnaik, NRC, Canada, Canadian
3. Mr. Charles Burton, CLS3, Canada, Canadian
4. Dr. Meyya Meyyappan, NASA, USA, American
5. Dr. George Studor, Natural Systems Alliance, USA, American
6. Dr. Marco Villa, SpaceX, USA, American
7. Dr. Jagdish Patankar, EDGE Forum, India, Indian
8. Dr. U. Chandrasekhar, Institution of Engineers, India, Indian
9. Dr. Oudea Coumar, EADS, France, French
10. Dr. Stefano Bellucci, INFN, Italy, Italian
11. Dr. Carles Ferrer, CNM, Spain, Spanish
12. Prof Darcton Damiao, University of Brasilia, Brazilian
13. Prof. Anatoly N. Perminov, Roscomos, Russia, Russian
14. Dr. Sergey Cherkas, Russian Space Systems, Russian
15. Prof Joseph Akinyede, FUTA, Nigeria, Africa, Nigerian
16. Mr. Pieter Basson, Denel, South Africa, South African
17. Mr. Abdulrahman Al-Jasir, Aramco, Saudi Arabia
18. Mr. Ahmed Alhamed, Mubadala, Abu-Dhabi, UAE


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