Workshop Governing bodies

Program Committee

• Nikola Vitchev Kolev – Chairman of the Program Committee, Scientific Secretary General of the Agricultural Academy - Bulgaria


• Boris Pukl - Jožef Stefan Institute, Nominated Member of the EC FP7 Programme Committee, priority “SPACE”, Slovenian Space National Contact Point
• Dimcho Solakov – Vice Director of the National Institute for Geophysics, Geodesy and Geography Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (GPhI-BAS)
• Eugene Nikolov – Vice President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
• Georgi Milev – President of the Union of Surveyors and Land Managers in Bulgaria
• Ioannis Z. Gitas – Head of Laboratory of Forest Management and Remote Sensing, Faculty of Forestry and Natural Environment, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
• Ion Nedelcu - Project manager, Romanian Space Agency
• Ivan Filipov – Member of the Managing Board of the Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegration – Ecoregions
• Krassimir Markov – President of the International Institute of Information Theories and Applications FOI ITHEA; Associate Professor, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS)
• Ljudmila Milenova – President of the Managing Board, Remote Sensing Application Center – ReSAC; Nominated Member of the EC FP7 Programme Committee, priority “SPACE”
• Marek Banaszkiewicz – Director of the Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Ondrey Mirovsky - GMES coordinator for the Czech Republic, NCP SPACE, Space Czech
• Petar Getsov - Director of the Institute for Space and Solar-Terrestrial Research, Bulgarian Academy of Science
• Roumen Nikolov - Department of IT, University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia, Bulgaria & Contact Person of the VirtSOI Living Lab
• Stefan Dodunekov – Director of the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IMI-BAS)
• Stephan Lechner – Director of the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint Research Centre, European Commission

Organization Committee

• Emil Kalo – Chairman of the Organization committee, Member of the Managing Board of the Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegration – Ecoregions


• Doino Petkov – Institute for Space and Solar-Terrestrial Research, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, National Contact Point (NCP) for EC FP7, priority “SPACE”
• Evgeni Manev - Chairman of the Board of the Bulgarian Air Force Foundation
• Ina Gencheva – Secretary of the Organizing committee, Bulgarian Information Office for EO-GMES (BIOG)
• Karina Angelieva – Programme manager, Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegration – Ecoregions
• Lybomir Kozharev – President of the Managing Board of the “Bulgarian Land” Association
• Marie Menard-Caer - Enterprise and Industry Directorate General - GMES Bureau, European Commission
• Pavel Nikolov – President of the Managing Board of the “National Center for Research on Risk and Public Safety”
• Petar Petrov – Bulgarian Branch Association of Electronic Industry and Informatics (BBAEII); Managing Director of Point L-Bulgaria Ltd
• Rangel Gyurov – Head of Department “Earth and Environmental Studies” and Director of “Natural Disasters and Risk” Laboratory, New Bulgarian University
• Stefan Daskalov – Executive Director, “Alliance for Environment” Association; National Contact Point (NCP) for EC FP7, priority “Environment including Climate Change”
• Vassil Vassilev – Member of the Managing Board of the Remote Sensing Application Center – ReSAC; National Contact Point (NCP) for EC FP7, priority “ SPACE”
• Vladimir Kanev – President of the Managing Board of the “Experts Pool” Association