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Conference Programme

Sharing Environmental Information

Version 25 November 2010

Venue: Square-Brussels Meeting Centre – The Arc


Day 1 – Monday, 29 November 2010

'SENSE1 makes SEIS2, SEIS makes SENSE'

09:00

Registration and welcome coffee

SESSION 1
'SENSE makes SEIS'

Chairperson: Barbara Clark (EEA3)

09:30

Opening of the Conference (Frank Van Sevencoten - VMM4)

09:45

SOER 20105 country assessments and SENSE. Lessons learned and the way forward – European perspective (Bernt Röndell - EEA)

10:05

SOER 2010 country assessments. Lessons learned and the way forward – a country perspective (Jan Voet – VMM)

10:25

SENSEible sharing of environmental information – a country perspective and beyond (Katharina Schleidt - UBA Austria6)

10:45

Coffee break

11:15

Break-out session – 1

12:30

Lunch

SESSION 2
'SEIS makes SENSE'

Chairperson: Francis Brancart (DGARNE7) & Jan Voet (VMM)

13:30

Towards indicator streamlining (Christian Heidorn - Eurostat)

13:50

The role of the European Data Centres, indicators and streamlining of data flows at EEA (Stefan Jensen - EEA)

14:10

Comparison of regional environmental indicators (Ludo Vanongeval - LNE8)

14:30

Coffee break

15:00

Towards the ICT implementation of SEIS: the NESIS9 proposal (Jaanus Heinlaid - Tieto Estonia AS)

15:20

The new EEA ICT10 strategy (Chris Steenmans - EEA)

15:40

Are we ready to share? A lawyers view. (Katleen Janssen - KUL11)

16:00

Break-out session – 2

17:30

End of day 1

Day 2 – Tuesday, 30 November 2010 

'SEIS - INSPIRE12 - GMES13 co-evolution'

08:30

Welcome coffee

09:00

Feedback from break-out sessions 1 and 2

SESSION 3
'Building on INSPIRE and GMES'

Chairperson: Stefan Jensen (EEA)

09:30

INSPIRE spatial data and network services supporting SEIS (Alessandro Annoni – JRC)

09:50

GMES Initial Operations - Experiences and lessons learnt from pilot studies and relevance for SEIS and the GIO user forum (Herbert Haubold - UBA Austria)

10:10

Proposed EEA/Eionet14 SEIS activities for 2011 (Chris Steenmans - EEA)

10:30

Break-out session - 3 including coffee break

11:45

Feedback break-out session 3

12:15

Walking to the European Parliament

13:00

Launch event of SOER 2010 at the European Parliament, including lunch

15:00

Meeting of European Parliament environment committee on SOER 2010 (video broadcast)

17:30

End of day 2

 

 

19:00

Informal dinner in central Brussels

Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 December 2010

'from Local to Global'

08:30

Registration and welcome coffee

SESSION 4
'The regional (sub-national) perspective'

Chairperson: Jiři Hradec (CENIA15)

09:00

How environmental information is transmitted: Spanish Network (Javier Cachón de Mesa - Ministry of the Environment Spain)

09:20

Environmental multi-scale indicators in Wallonia (Vincent Brahy - DGARNE16)

09:40

State of Environment Report Flanders (Marleen Van Steertegem - VMM-MIRA17)

10:10

Coffee break

SESSION 5
'Towards SEIS implementation'

Chairperson: Chris Steenmans (EEA)

10:30

SEIS Conference Prague: two years after (Jiří Hradec - CENIA)

10:50

SEIS from an EEA perspective: status and prospects (Prof. Jacqueline McGlade – EEA)

11:10

A shared environmental information system for Europe - the road ahead (Nicholas Banfield - DG ENV)

11:30

Panel discussion about next steps (Group of Four and Philippe D'Hondt - VMM)

12:30

Final conclusions by the Belgian EU Presidency (Michiel van Peteghem – Cabinet of Minister Joke Schauvliege)

13:00

Reception

 


1 SENSE: Shared European and National State of the Environment information

2 SEIS: Shared Environmental Information System

3 EEA: European Environment Agency

4 VMM: Flemish Environment Agency

5 SOER 2010: The European environment — state and outlook 2010

6 UBA Austria: The Austrian Environment Agency

7 LNE: Environment, Nature and Energy Department of the Flemish Government

8 DGARNE: The Walloon Department for Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment

9 NESIS: Network to enhance a European Environmental Shared and Interoperable System

10 EEA ICT: Information and communication technology strategy of the EEA

11 KUL: Catholic University of Leuven

12 INSPIRE: Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe

13 GMES: Global Monitoring for Environment and Security

14 Eionet: European Environmental Information and Observation Network

15 CENIA: Czech Environmental Information Agency

16 VMM-MIRA: The Flemish Environment Rapport of the Flemish Environment Agency

 


 

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