The VESTA-GIS network is promoted by and is grounded on an existing network, the GISIG Association, constituted in 1992 as sectoral UETP (University-Enterprise Training Partnership) in the GIS technologies within the former European COMETT Programme. In the following years, the Association has promoted several initiatives in line with its original mandate of innovation and technology transfer in the field of Geographical Information.

Though exploiting the potentiality of a well established network VESTA-GIS realises an evolution of such network and in an innovative way proposes itself to cope with the new challenges and with the today competence needs in the European arena of geo-information.

The added value of the new network comparing former activity is the establishment of a comprehensive framework intended to act as a “clearing house” among offer and demand of training in Geo-Information that is able to address efficiently a series of opportunities for training courses/modules and mobility at a European level, including as well a path for accreditation of the acquired competence.