The merit of the initiative as summarized by Patrick Hogan World Wind project manager (NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Fields, CA):
“The
Europa Challenge is a test of the European university community’s capacity to
deliver sustainable solutions serving the needs of the European community.
Each university and their most capable professors and students, are
invited to showcase their talents measured against the needs of the European
community. Starting now and every year going forward, the Europa Challenge will
seek the best information technology solutions the European universities can
come up with based on NASA World Wind, http://goworldwind.org/.”