14/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - In Brussels on 12 to 20 February 2005, the European Commission is organising a Week of Earth and Space, in co-operation with the European Space Agency. Achilleas Mitsos, Director General of Research at the European Commission, announced the event to reporters this week, at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Earth Observation Group, explaining that the week aimed to raise awareness and understanding of how earth and space observation could be used to improve living standards on planet earth.