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South East Asia is growing at an impressive pace with its GDP having increased by about 350% in ten years , ri sing from 650 Billion $ in 2002 to about 2300 Billion $ in 2012. Regional governments actively promote infrastructure, logistics and service development to create a favourable environment fo r sustainable growth. Within this framework, GNSS applications play a vital role. In particular, the increasing demand for better services , in both the public and private sector , and logistics is going to require increasingly reliable and trusted GNSS appl ications. South East Asia has the highest multi - GNSS coverage in the world, and is therefore the ideal place to test and compare performance and opportunities offered by the different g lobal n avigation s atellite s ystems. On the one hand, an active promotio n of E U GNSS (EGNSS) technology in this region, rising awareness on its main features while on the other hand facilitating the linking of European enterprises with South East Asian GNSS stakeholders, are extremely important so as to establish and maintain global European scientific and industrial leadership in this crucial sector. Indeed, it is also fundamental to encourage the penetration of EGNSS industry in to the South East Asian market taking into account all potential applications of EGNSS. Therefore, the BELS project exploits the opportunities presented by the NAVIS Centre, an International Collaboration Centre for Research and Development on Satellite Navigation Technology in South East Asia based in Hanoi, Vietnam, to promote visibility and to raise awareness o f EGNSS technology in the region. The next three years will be crucial for pav ing the way for Galileo services, both for European companies that can enter a new growing market and for the South East Asian countries that can discover the capabili ties of the EGNSS technology. Consequently, BELS facilitates and supports the visits of European companies for such purposes a s carrying out tests in the NAVIS Centre and hence to assist them in getting ready for the global GNSS applications market . South East Asia is growing at an impressive pace with its GDP having increased by about 350% in ten years , ri sing from 650 Billion $ in 2002 to about 2300 Billion $ in 2012. Regional governments actively promote infrastructure, logistics and service development to create a favourable environment fo r sustainable growth. Within this framework, GNSS applications play a vital role. In particular, the increasing demand for better services , in both the public and private sector , and logistics is going to require increasingly reliable and trusted GNSS appl ications. South East Asia has the highest multi - GNSS coverage in the world, and is therefore the ideal place to test and compare performance and opportunities offered by the different g lobal n avigation s atellite s ystems. On the one hand, an active promotio n of E U GNSS (EGNSS) technology in this region, rising awareness on its main features while on the other hand facilitating the linking of European enterprises with South East Asian GNSS stakeholders, are extremely important so as to establish and maintain global European scientific and industrial leadership in this crucial sector. Indeed, it is also fundamental to encourage the penetration of EGNSS industry in to the South East Asian market taking into account all potential applications of EGNSS. Therefore, the BELS project exploits the opportunities presented by the NAVIS Centre, an International Collaboration Centre for Research and Development on Satellite Navigation Technology in South East Asia based in Hanoi, Vietnam, to promote visibility and to raise awareness o f EGNSS technology in the region. The next three years will be crucial for pav ing the way for Galileo services, both for European companies that can enter a new growing market and for the South East Asian countries that can discover the capabili ties of the EGNSS technology. Consequently, BELS facilitates and supports the visits of European companies for such purposes a s carrying out tests in the NAVIS Centre and hence to assist them in getting ready for the global GNSS applications market .

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International audience; The aim of the G-TRAIN project is to set up a framework for higher education addressing different academic (MSc, Specialising Master and PhD) and networking activities. Indeed, it has been identified that on the one hand there are not enough people trained in the field of satellite navigation in Europe to support the finalization of the Galileo system as well as the foreseen development of satellite navigation applications and on the other hand there are no "European GNSS education" only activities. The goal of the project is to set up a long-term model for the coordination of universities, students exchanges and researchers co-operation in order to exploit synergies and to cover all the different needs of GNSS training, expressed by both industry and research worlds. The paper describes the achievements already obtained in the first part of the project lifetime and its future activities.