Alexia Tsouni, NOA/BEYOND Research Associate, participated in the 24th CEOS (Committee on Earth Observation Satellites) Working Group Disasters Meeting on 30 September - 2 October 2025, in her capacity as coordinator of the Flood Pilot Balkans. On October 1st, she updated the participants about the Flood Diachronic Mapping Service in the transboundary Evros river basin, a fully automated Sentinel-1 based service developed by the FloodΗUB team of NOA/BEYOND. She also presented the interesting outcomes of the Regional Workshop on Copernicus tools for the flooding of Evros river, which was co-organised by NOA/BEYOND and the PRAXI Network on 15th May 2025 in Alexandroupolis, Greece, in the framework of the FPCUP programme (Caroline Herschel Framework Partnership Agreement on Copernicus User Uptake).
Alexia Tsouni highlighted, on the one hand, the engagement of key national stakeholders from the Municipality of Alexandroupoli, the Decentralized Administration of Macedonia - Thrace, the Region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, as well as the civil society (civil protection volunteer associations). On the other hand, she emphasized the cooperation with colleagues from Bulgaria (Prof. Hhristo Nikolov, Space Research and Technology Institute Bulgarian Academy of Sciences) and Turkey (Can Bayraktar, TÜBİTAK UZAY Space Technologies Research Institute, Senior Expert Researcher), as well as CEOS (Prof. Uriburu Quirno, Marcelo, CONAE, the National Commission on Space Activities, Argentina).