Deputy Director of SRI prof. N. Kussul  was awarded the honorary prize of the intergovernmental organization GEO (Group of Earth Observation) for personal contribution to the activities of this organization - GEO Individual Excellence Award 2021. The award ceremony will take place during the next Plenary Week (GEO-17 Plenary) on November 26, 2021. In recent years, scientists of the Institute, led by N.M. Kussul, performed a number of works in international cooperation in the interests of the introduction of satellite technologies in solving the problems of sustainable development and the creation of the international system GEOSS.