Saturday, December 20, 2008

Workshop: Towards Shared Environmental Information in Europe: Opportunities and Challenges for Integrated Research

On January 28 and 29, 2009, the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford (UK) will host a workshop on SEIS titled:

“Towards Shared Environmental Information in Europe:
Opportunities and Challenges for Integrated Research”


The overall aim of the workshop is to discuss the opportunities and challenges for research that are posed by the development of European-wide environmental information systems such as SEIS. The workshop will brainstorm on how research institutes and higher education institutions - either in their role as data holders or as science providers - can help making environmental information sharing in Europe a reality. The workshop aims at connecting the research community, sharing experiences and best practices and discussing the development of new tools and methodologies. Thus, the event will help researchers and practitioners get up to speed with the state-of-the-art in this fast-changing business, looking in a holistic way at the whole process from collecting and managing data to delivering and using environmental information. While it is not the intention to focus on the technical development or implementation of SEIS as such, the workshop will generate ideas which may add value to the SEIS concept.

The objectives of the workshop are:

To discuss the opportunities and challenges which systems for sharing environmental information in Europe offer to the research community, both in its role as data holder and science provider .
To share best practice, facilitate networking and open new integrated research avenues with the aim of adding value to initiatives such as SEIS.
To agree on joint activities to support systems for sharing environmental information from a research perspective.

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