1st EMODnet Steering Committee Meeting - draft Agenda

Location: JPI Oceans office - Rue du Trône 130, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium.

Date: 16 and 17 December 2013

Meeting with Coordinators of the thematic lots/portals and Sea Basin Checkpoints to guide the development of the EMODnet Entry Portal and strenghten the coherence of EMODnet.

Meeting Chair: Phil Weaver

Draft Agenda

Day 1 - 16 December 2013

Start 14:00

• Welcome and introduction to the Steering Committee– DG MARE
• Introductions and adoption of the Meeting Agenda – Meeting Chair
• The EMODnet Secretariat team, its mandate and workplan– Secretariat
• The Steering Committee Terms of Reference (ToR) – Secretariat
• Updates from the thematic assembly groups
  • Lot 1 - Bathymetry
  • Lot 2 - Geology
  • Lot 3 - Seabed habitats
  • Lot 4 - Chemistry
  • Lot 5 - Biology
  • Lot 6 - Physics
  • Lot 7 - Human activities
    

Coffee Break 15:30-16:00

• Information about the Sea Basin Checkpoints
  • Lot 1 - North Sea
  • Lot 2 - Mediterranean Sea
• Indicators to monitor progress and reporting template - Secretariat
• EMODnet activities and partners – internal communication and exchange of information - Secretariat
• EMODnet outreach and external communication - Secretariat

End of Meeting: 17:30

Day 2 - 16 December 2013

Start 09:00

• Harmonisation of portals (presentation, basic information and components, domain names, …) - Secretariat

• Recap and updates from the entry portal since last meeting & EMODnet temporary landing page - VLIZ

• Entry portal requirements - what should the portal be able to do? - VLIZ
  • Provide access to products, data, metadata…
  • Visualise all products
  • Provide access to underlying datasystems
  • Link integrate data from different portals
  • EMODnet webservices
• Use cases / actions for workplan 2014 - VLIZ
• Governance EMODnet central portal – Secretariat
• Establishment technical and user working group Recap Entry Portal workplan 2014 - Secretariat

Coffee Break 10:45-11:15

• EMODnet temporary landing page – all
• Use of Social media (linkedin, twitter, facebook, …) by assembly groups and entry portal - Secretariat
• Recap meeting actions & AOB
• Dates for next meeting

End of Meeting 13:00