From its beginnings as the origin of the EU Space Programme to its growing role across multiple transport sectors, EGNOS continues to expand its reach. The 2025 Workshop in Berlin brought together experts and users from across Europe to celebrate progress, share insights, and look ahead to the next generation of services.

If the EU Space Programme had an origin story, it would be called EGNOS. Today, nearly two decades after the declaration of its Open Service, EGNOS remains a symbol of European Union innovation and reliability in satellite navigation. 

The EGNOS Workshop 2025, held in Berlin on 1–2 October and marking its first hybrid edition, brought together over 150 participants from more than 50 organizations across 25 countries, reaffirming the vibrancy and cohesion of the EGNOS community.

The workshop serves as the main platform for users, developers, and institutions to share knowledge, present applications, and explore how EGNOS continues to evolve and create new opportunities in Europe and beyond.

Today, EGNOS is Europe’s regional Satellite-Based Augmentation System (SBAS), free and publicly available service that improves GPS accuracy to within 1–2 meters, compared to around 5 meters when using GPS alone. 

For Safety-of-Life users, EGNOS goes a step further: it guarantees integrity, alerting users within six seconds if a signal’s accuracy falls below the required level. This reliability is what makes EGNOS indispensable to sectors where precision and safety are critical — and aviation is a prime example.

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