A public project inauguration event was held in Moscow on 22 March 2012. The meeting was hosted at the Research Center for Earth Operative Monitoring of the Joint Stock Company “Russian Space Systems” (NTsOMZ). The meeting aimed at informing the Russian user community about the ZAPÁS forest monitoring activities in Central Siberia. Following the ESA-ROSKOSMOS Data Exchange Agreement the main objectives for this public event was to demonstrate recent synergies of exchanging EU-Russian know-how on advanced earth observation for forestry applications.