OVERVIEW OF ESDI-NETPLUS MEETINGS & WORKSHOPS

At the recent EUROGI Members Day (MD 2009) held on March 26 in Brussels, Belgium, a special focus was given to initiatives driven by the European Commission (EC), mostly of them being INSPIRE related projects. In particular, various projects being co-funded by the EC under the eContentplus Programme 2005-2008 have been presented, namely ESDI-Netplus, EURADIN, ESDIN, OneGeology-Europe and Plan4All.

The National Geographic Information Representatives (A-members) at EUROGI have been requested to present the activities related to the ESDI-NETPLUS and the related potential for further engaging on the assessment of sub national SDI. A total of sixteen countries have been covered.

Briefly, he ESDI-NETPLUS project is a Thematic Network (TN) co funded by the EC eContentplus Programme (ECP-2006-GEO-320005) and coordinated by INI Graphics Net from Germany. The co funded phase of the project started in September 2007 and will be over by August 2010, being the network foreseen to continue after this period.

EUROGI is strongly involved within the ESDI-NETPLUS project and leads the Work package 2 (WP 2) on the Identification and Analysis of Best Practices.

For the purpose, several meetings and workshops are being organised across Europe. A total of 32 countries are covered through 13 national or supranational workshops and more than 200 SDI cases reported.
A brief overview of the meetings and workshops has been prepared for distribution at the MD 2009.

See the overview of ESDI-NETPLUS meetings and workshops

See the presentations from the Members of EUROGI on the ESDI-NETPLUS and INSPIRE