4th EMODnet Steering Committee Meeting - Draft Agenda

Date: from 9:00 on Wednesday 1 July until Thursday 13:00 on 2 July 2015

Location: Joint Research Centre (JRC), Via E. Fermi 2749, I-21027 Ispra (VA), Italy

Meeting Chair: Iain Shepherd

Draft Meeting agenda

Day 1 - Wednesday 1 July 2015 meeting starts at 9:00

1. Welcome and adoption of the agenda

2. Status update of actions from previous meeting & short EMODnet progress update

3. Updates from DG MARE and the Secretariat

• Status update running tenders for coastal mapping and EMODnet checkpoints

  • New EMODnet Coastal Mapping Project - Gaël Morvan (French Hydrographic Office SHOM) – 15’ + 5’ Q/A

  • New Checkpoints (Baltic, Arctic, Black Sea and Atlantic)

• How to prepare for the next phase?

• Future EMODnet governance, advisory and user group(s)

Coffee Break 10:30-11:00

4. EMODnet events and calendar 2015

• Preparations for the EMODnet Open Conference and Jamboree
• Joint EMODnet Checkpoint Event 2015
• EMODnet@EMD2015
• Other opportunities to raise the profile of EMODnet?

Lunch 12:30-13:30

5. Update from the thematic lots on specific issues of concern

• Status of chemical data within and outside EMODnet

• Status of Biological data within and outside EMODnet

• Progress single sign on & adoption of new technologies

• Key progress updates and challenges for the thematic lots

• Quality assessment approaches for EMODnet products by different lots

Coffee Break 15:30-16:00

6. Updates from the North Sea Checkpoint; specific feedback for EMODnet portals; progress of the peer-to-peer data signposting functionality

7. Updates from the Mediterranean Checkpoint; specific feedback for EMODnet portals

+ Short presentation and discussion on Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring (IPCheM) by invited expert from JRC.

Day 1 - Wednesday 1 July 2015 meeting ends at 17:30

Joint Dinner – Location to be decided

Day 2 - Thursday 2 July meeting starts at 9:00

8. Central portal Query Tool - VLIZ

9. Feedback from the technical Working Group - VLIZ

• Report on activities since last meeting

• List of priority issues & actions planned to address them

Coffee Break 10:30-11:00

10. External developments and interactions

• EMODnet-Common Information Sharing Environment, CISE – JRC

• EMODnet-INSPIRE (updates from the workshop 30/06/2015)

• EMODnet and other major initiatives and developments (MSFD, EOOS, Copernicus, Fisheries, RSC, …)

• Implications of the new Cookie Directive - https://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm#section_2

• Developing win-win scenarios to secure buy-in from data providers by using EMODnet to adhere to Member States' requirements to comply with the growing number of regulations and Directives

• EMODnet involvement in RTD projects

11. AOB

12. Next SC Meeting date and location

13. Wrap up and closing of the Meeting

Day 2 – Thursday 2 July meeting ends at 13:00 with lunch

14:00-16:30 - Afternoon Open Seminar on EMODnet for JRC staff - see agenda here https://maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/node/3756

17:00-18:30 - Kick Off Meeting of EMODnet Coastal Mapping Project (MARE/2014/10)

Note: Members of the EMODnet Steering Committee Members are also invited to attend the EMODnet-INSPIRE Meeting at JRC in Ispra on Tuesday 30 June 2015 from 13:30 till 17:30. The agenda of this workshop can be found here: https://maritime-forum.ec.europa.eu/node/3737