11th EMODnet Steering Committee Meeting - Agenda

Meeting Venue: Zebrastraat, Zebrastraat 32, Ghent, Belgium

Dates: Monday 2 September (09:00 CEST) - Tuesday 3 September 2019 (12:30 CEST)

DAY 1, Monday 2 September 2019

Meeting will start at 9:30

1. Welcome & introduction (Jan-Bart Calewaert)

• Welcome to participants
• Adoption of the SC Meeting Agenda

2. Updates from DG MARE (Iain Shepherd/Zoi Konstantinou) DG MARE updates

• Marine Knowledge Expert Group
• Priorities for EMODnet in Phase IV

3. Updates from EASME (Juan-Carlos Fernández Gomez/Lucie Pautet) EASME updates
4. Status update of list of actions from previous meetings (Secretariat & all)
5. Updates from the Secretariat (Secretariat)

• EMODnet activities (OSLII), events and calendar 2020
• Interactions with Copernicus/CMEMS
• Interactions between EMODnet and other initiatives: MSFD, MSP, ICES, RSC, EOOS

6. Administrative and reporting issues & AOB (Secretariat & all)

10:30-11:00 – Coffee Break

7. EMODnet Data Policy/Terms of Use (Secretariat)
8. External communication and external stakeholders (Secretariat & Trust-IT)

• Overview and key updates of communication materials, outputs and lessons learned
• Communication protocol for major EMODnet data release Secretariat communication protocol
• EMODnet Associated partners and EMODnet for Business Secretariat Associated Partners
• Promotion of EMODnet by leading network partners
• Update of the EMODnet Portfolio with information on the Querytool

9. EMODnet-4-MSFD Roundtable - updates from thematic lots
10. EMODnet-4-Marine Spatial Planning (MSPD) (Corine Lochet, SHOM) SHOM MSP

13:00-14:00 – Lunch Break

11. EMODnet for European ocean observing

• EOOS Conference and Call to Action Secretariat EOOS
• Assessment of coordination of ocean observing and monitoring
• Future assessment of coordination of data collection, management and data flow at national, regional and European levels (Secretariat)

12. EMODnet Progress Monitoring and harmonization updates (Secretariat & Trust IT)

• Reassessment of the Progress indicators (Secretariat) Secretariat Progress Monitoring
• Secondary menu of each portal website, template on printed maps, visual harmonisation score (Trust-IT)

13. External projects (e.g. H2020 pilot Blue-Cloud)
    Blue Cloud
    SeaDataCloud
    BlueCloud TrustIT
    ODIP
14. EMODnet for Global (Secretariat & all) EMODnet 4 global
15. Looking forward: Jamboree 2020 (Secretariat & all)

END OF DAY 1 EXPECTED AT 17:30

DAY 2, Tuesday 3 September 2019

MEETING WILL START AT 09:00 (Steering Committee and Technical Working Group joint meeting)

1. Short update from Data Ingestion (Dick Schaap /Sissi Iona) – PPT maximum 5 slides / max 10 min + 5 min questions EMODnet Ingestion
2. Short updates from the EMODnet thematic projects (Thematic project coordinators) – PPTs maximum 5 slides – Please keep your intervention to 10 min max + 5 min questions

• Provide a status update on items/activities dating from end of phase III – examples given: Vessel density mapping for Human activities, Underwater noise for Physics, Marine litter for Chemistry, Atlas of Marine Life for Biology, etc.
• Provide information on new developments in the new contracts
• Interaction and collaboration with other EMODnet thematic projects

EMODnet Physics
EMODnet Bathymetry
EMODnet Biology
EMODnet Geology
EMODnet Human Activities
EMODnet Seabed Habitats
EMODnet Chemistry

10.45-11:15 – Coffee Break

3. Updates and progress since 4&5^th Technical Working Group (Pascal Derycke)

• EMODnet as service provider Secretariat EMODnet as service provider
• JIRA
• GDPR Secretariat GDPR
• Hackathon package (survey on accessing EMODnet data) Secretariat Hackathon Package

4. Next Steering Committee Meeting: format, date and location (Secretariat & all)
5. Wrap up and closing of the Meeting (Secretariat & all)

END OF MEETING EXPECTED BY 12:30

12:30-13.30: Lunch Break

START of Technical Working Group

See Technical Working Group Agenda: https://maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/node/4412.