Deputy Director of the Space Research Institute of Ukraine Prof. Nataliia Kussul won GEO Individual Excellence Award for outstanding personal contribution to the activities GEO.

The award ceremony took place on November 26, 2021 as part of the GEO Plenary Week. Nataliia is Deputy GEO-Principal in Ukraine and a representative of Ukraine in EuroGEO High Level Working Group. As a member of Ukraine's representative office in GEO, Natalia has made efforts to bring Ukraine into the European caucus of GEO. She has been PI for numerous national and international projects in GEO domain from National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, State Space Agency of Ukraine, EC-FP7, ESA and Horizon-2020. She is coordinator of GEOGLAM-Ukraine initiative, JECAM-Ukraine test site, Co-PI from Ukrainian side Horizon-2020 “ERA-PLANET” project, coordinator from Ukraine of one of the pilots within e-shape. A team of scientists led by Natalia was awarded grants for the development of cloud computing for intelligent satellite monitoring tasks within GEO-Amazon Earth Observation Cloud Credits Programme (https://earthobservations.org/article.php?id=362#awarded_projects) and GEO-GEE program.