The VESTA-GIS target groups are mainly the GI potential and actual users in the different EU Countries, as well as the providers of GIS training (both professional operators and GI experts and Academy). They are both practitioners and, even more, people potentially interested to GIS training but impeded by the fragmentation of offer, that is to be re-conducted to consistent and customisable training paths.

They span from officers of Administrations, main users of geo-information, to environmental operators, to companies providing GI services that need qualified skill. They are all working with GIS (or in case more simply only with geo-information to be browsed) but often are coming from different technical and scientific disciplines and frequently not committed to the management of GI from an Information Technology point of view. Those persons need to be able to maintain their sectoral application-oriented perspective (hence the decision of starting since beginning with some sectoral fields where the project partnership has a consolidated experience of networking for users’ involvement) but as well to efficiently manage geo-information, with the additional new requirement, of complying with the provisions of the EU Directives, especially  INSPIRE for the management of environmental geo-information. In a few words the attempt is to train people in a transparent and more friendly daily use of the geo-information tools in their specific field of work.

VESTA-GIS targets also fresh graduates approaching the labour market. They are to be pooled and endorsed by their University, the interest of which is demonstrated by a qualified membership in VESTA-GIS.