Conference Programme
Sharing Environmental Information
Version 25 November 2010 Venue: Square-Brussels Meeting Centre – The Arc Day 1 – Monday, 29 November 2010 |
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09:00 |
Registration and welcome coffee |
SESSION
1 Chairperson: Barbara Clark (EEA3) |
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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 Chairperson: Francis Brancart (DGARNE7) & Jan Voet (VMM) |
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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 |
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08:30 |
Welcome coffee |
09:00 |
Feedback from break-out sessions 1 and 2 |
SESSION
3 Chairperson: Stefan Jensen (EEA) |
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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 |
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19:00 |
Informal dinner in central Brussels |
Day 3 – Wednesday, 1 December 2010'from Local to Global' |
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08:30 |
Registration and welcome coffee |
SESSION
4 Chairperson: Jiři Hradec (CENIA15) |
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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 Chairperson: Chris Steenmans (EEA) |
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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
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