Florence BEROUD – Project OfficerManagement of Natural Resources – RTD.I.4 Research Directorate General - Environment - RTD.IEUROPEAN COMMISSION

8-9 Octobre 2009, istanbul, Turkey

3rd GEO European Projects Workshop

Agenda

• Detailed Review of the Agenda

• Poster Session

• Organisation of the Workshop

Presentation overview

Thursday 8 October - Morning session

• Presentation of Regional South Eastern Europe Earth Observation activities and European coordination activities.

9.30 Morning Session: WelcomeChair: Cihan Kızıltan, EC FP7 National Coordinator, Environment, Space, Security - Welcome by Gilles Ollier, Head of Sector, Earth Observation, DG RTD, European

Commission - Welcome by Okan Kara, TÜBITAK, EC FP7 National General Coordinator Presentation on "Recent Development in Turkish Research Area". - Presentation of the Workshop Agenda - Florence Béroud, EC- Presentation of the activities of EO in Turkey by Tamer Özalp, TÜBITAK

10.30 - 11.00

Coffee Break Opening of the Poster Session

Morning Session (Continued): - Presentation of activities in South East Europe by Ms. Eleni Christia, Greek GEO Office - Presentation by EnviroGRIDS of Capacity Building for the GEO in the Black Sea basin by Nicolas Ray, University of Geneva - Eugene presentation by Udo Gärtner, DLR - RTD EO Infrastructure activities by Anna Maria Johansson, EC

12.00 Lunch Break

Thursday 8 October - Afternoon session 1

• Setting the stage for the focussed Working sessions

13.30 Afternoon Session 1: GEO Current Strategic Focus Chair: Florence Béroud, EC

The GEOSS Common Infrastructure - GCI and Data sharing by Alan Edwards, EC - The role of OGC as a standardisations organisation in European funded projects by

Athina Trakas, OGC

The Ministerial Summit in 2010- Preparation of the 2010 Ministerial Summit by Gilles Ollier, EC

Questions and Discussion

Thursday 8 October - Afternoon session 214.30 Afternoon Session 2: European contribution to Global Data Sets relevant to the

implementation of the GEO 2009-11 WP: European existing data sets and potential to support the GEOSS.Chair: Gilles Ollier, EC - DG RTDModerator: Mauro Facchini, EC - GMES BureauRapporteur: Udo Gärtner, Germany

15.30–16.00

Coffee Break

Introduction:- Data Way Forward discussion at GEO and INSPIRE contribution to GEOSS by Max Craglia, Joint Research Centre, EC- GEO Global Datasets by Douglas Cripe, GEO SecretariatLand datasets:- GMES - Geoland – by Stefan Knabe, Astrium Services, DE- Global Land Cover by Jérôme Béquignon, ESA- Global Soil data by Vincent Van Engelen, ISRIC, NL- Digital Geological Map data by Ian Jackson, BGS, UKOcean:- GMES - MyOcean by Dr. Emin Özsoy, METU, TRWater:- Water Cycle Data Integration by Massimo Menenti, ENSPS, FRAtmosphere:- GMES - MACC by Leonard Rivier, LSCE, FR- Global Carbon Tracking by Philippe Ciais, LSCE, FR- Mozaic Airborne dataset by Prof. Andreas Wahner, JÜLICH, DE- Global Observation Systems for Mercury - Nicola Pirrone, IIA CNR, IT- EDGAR database, global map of CO2 emissions, Max Craglia, JRCRegistration- The GEO component registration, Bruno Greco, ECDiscussion: The way forward and practical implementation. Registration effort: what is the next step?

18.00 End of the Day

Thursday 8 October - Afternoon session 2The development of global sets of data is a necessity for

environmental research in many domains: climate (e.g. Carbon Cycle), ocean, health etc… European Researchers have both a lot to gain and much to contribute for those global data sets:– Access to new data– Data cohesion at international level– Constitution of global data repositories.

What we are looking for:

• What we have in Europe to contribute to GEOSS Global Data Sets

• What barriers are preventing contribution and registration of European components in the GEOSS.

• How can we help?

Thursday 8 October - Dinner

The Dinner will be hosted by TÜBITAK and served

in the Galata Tower on Thursday 8 Octoberfrom 19:00-21:00.

Transport will be provided between the Workshop Venue and the Galata Tower

Please inform us if you cannot come

Friday 9 October – Morning parallel sessions9.00

Morning Session:

Parallel sessions for a selection of themes in preparation of 2010 Ministerial: review which significant progress can be demonstrated by European initiatives and presented at the 2010 Ministerial in coordination with the GEO process (which is to be clarified by Sept. 2009).

- Climate monitoring, including a Global Carbon Observation System

Moderator: Philippe Ciais, LSCE, FR Rapporteur: Gilles Ollier, EC

- Biodiversity & Ecosystems

Moderator: Terry Parr, CEH NRSC, UK Rapporteur: Florence Béroud, EC

- Environment and Health

Moderator: Jose Lorenzo, Atos Origin, SP Rapporteur: Bruno Greco, EC

- Capacity Building in Europe and in developing countries

Moderator: Mark Noort, ITC, NL Rapporteur: Alan Edwards, EC

10.30 Coffee Break

11.00

Parallel sessions (continued)

12.30 Lunch Break

Climate

Biodiversity Ecosystem

Health

CAPACITY BUILDING CAPACITY BUILDING

DisasterEnergy

Friday 9 October – Morning parallel sessions• Participants have been allocated to one of the 4 sessions

- Climate Monitoring including Global Carbon Observing System- Environment & Health- Biodiversity & Ecosystems- Capacity Building

• What we are looking for:

Support in the preparation of the November 2010 Ministerial Summit in the form of:

- Major European achievements that can be attributed to the GEOSS

- Other achievements that can be presented

- Messages to be taken on-board by the ministers

• 3 hour sessions with a moderator and a rapporteur:

The output will be used to shape and motivate the work of the Task Force preparing for the communication to the ministers.

Nippon Hotel

Point Hotel

Friday 9 October - afternoon session

14.00

Afternoon Session: Plenary Discussion on results of the Workshop

Chair: Manuela Soares, Director Environment Directorate, DG RTD, EC

European contribution to Datasets

- presentation by the rapporteur of the Thursday 8 session: Udo Gärtner

Ministerial 2010 - Presentations of results of working sessions

- presentation by the rapporteurs of the parallel sessions: G.Ollier, F.Béroud, B.Greco, A.Edwards

Discussion

Conclusions and Way Forward

16.30 End of Day – Closing Ceremony

• Final Working session.

Report the Dataset and Ministerial sessions

Plenary Discussion

Decision on Way Forward

Poster Session• The poster session is an integral part of the Workshop.

– A number EU projects represented can benefit from knowing of each other: networking effect leading to optimisations and synergies

– Posters from Turkey and South Eastern Europe region contribute to networking and to partnering in the current and future calls

• All coffee breaks will take place in the poster session. (Nippon Hotel // sessions also)

Organisation of the Workshop

• Please contact Ms Ebru Imren or Ms Pinar Bozoklu, for all practical question on the Workshop organisation

• Lunch will be served on the 9th floor of the Point Hotel

• Galata Tower Dinner: be on time for transport (19.00 in front of the Point Hotel), business casual dress.

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Enjoy a fruitful Workshop