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This paper presents the significance and importance of promoting the benefits of Earth Observation when implemented in 'secondary' and 'higher education' in Cyprus schools. Firstly, examples of how Earth Observation is exploited for secondary education in other countries, such as Germany and China, are presented, and in particular how ESA's Earth Observation education materials are used to promote STEM education. Secondly, the 'EXCELSIOR for Schools' & 'SOFIA ESA' initiatives for promoting Earth Observation education in Cyprus are also presented. Examples of how Earth Observation is presented through seminars, workshops, science cafes, researcher's night, from Earth Observation experts in schools in Cyprus are also described and analysed. Examples of how Earth Observation is used in the existing curriculum for undergraduate, postgraduate courses for surveying and civil engineers are demonstrated for monitoring and providing solutions for civil and geomatics engineering issues at the Cyprus University of Technology through the EXCELSIOR H2020 Teaming project.

The "EXCELSIOR" H2020 Widespread Teaming Phase 2 Project titled ERATOSTHENES: EXcellence Research Centre for Earth SurveiLlance and Space-Based MonItoring Of the EnviRonment is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 857510 for a 7-year project period to establish a Centre of Excellence in Cyprus. The Government of the Republic of Cyprus is providing additional resources to support the establishment of the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence (ECoE). The ECoE seeks to fill the gap by carrying out spaceborne Earth Observation (EO) activities in the Eastern Mediterranean and becoming a regional key player in the Earth Observation sector. The ECoE as a Digital Innovation Hub adopts a two-axis model, where the horizontal axis consists of three Thematic Clusters for sustained excellence in research of the ECoE in the domains of Atmosphere and Climate, Resilient Society and Big Earth Data Analytics, while the vertical axis consists of four functional areas: Infrastructure, Research, Education, and Entrepreneurship. This paper presents existing state of the art research examples within the Centre that deals with the integration of earth observation and geoinformation for monitoring systematically the environment in the areas of Agriculture monitoring, Atmospheric monitoring and Disaster risk reduction in terms of earthquakes and landslides, fires and floods.