The role of remote sensing in training activity of Tuscany Region

The European Community has focused on the development of human resources one of the main goal to be achieved for the improvement of our society. This idea, as stated by J. DeLors, considers educational and training activities, as a whole, among the main tasks of the European Community. In this scenario the Tuscany Region wants to play a leading role and has issued a regulation to discipline the activities in the field of vocational training activities by defining a global frame concerning both objectives and organization. At the same time, the growth cannot be split up from the safeguard of our environment: in this sense one of the most important aspects is the developing of curricula and educational methodologies for the Monitoring and Control of the Environment (MCE), that can be able to put remote sensing and geoscience products and knowledge together with advanced learning technologies. In the MCE field a non-profit organization, PIN-Centro Studi Ingegneria, acts as a C.I.R. in Tuscany region having been charged, for its specific knowledge in the field of geoscience and remote sensing, to operate as a reference center for the development of training activities in the field of environmental monitoring and remote sensing. One of the main goals of the C.I.R. of Prato is the achievement and sharing of these methodologies in Italy and in the European Union. For this purpose educational tools are going to be realized, as multimedia software, educational supports for self learning and remote educational techniques based upon the telematics network existent for the interconnections of Universities and other educational centers in Tuscany region. In this paper the main activities and the first results of educational projects are presented