Objective
The Black Sea Catchment is internationally known as one of ecologically unsustainable development and inadequate resource management, which has led to severe environmental, social and economic problems. EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment aims at building the capacities of regional stakeholders to use new international standards to gather, store, distribute, analyze, visualize and disseminate crucial information on past, present and future states of the environment, in order to assess its sustainability and vulnerability. The EnviroGRIDS @ Black Sea Catchment project addresses these issues by bringing several emerging information technologies that are revolutionizing the way we are able to observe our planet. The Group on Earth Observation Systems of Systems (GEOSS) is building a data-driven view of our planet that feeds into models and scenarios. EnviroGRIDS aims at building the capacity of scientist to assemble such a system in the Black Sea Catchment, the capacity of decision-makers to use it, and the capacity of the general public to understand the important environmental, social and economic issues at stake. To achieve its objectives, EnviroGRIDS will build an ultra-modern Grid enabled Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) that will become one component in the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS), compatible with the new EU directive on Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Union (INSPIRE). EnviroGRIDS will particularly target the needs of the Black Sea Commission (BSC) and the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR) in order to help bridging the gap between science and policy.
Field of science
- /natural sciences/physical sciences/astronomy/planetary science/planets
- /social sciences/other social sciences/social sciences interdisciplinary/sustainable development
Programme(s)
Call for proposal
FP7-ENV-2008-1
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Funding Scheme
CP-SICA - Collaborative project for specific cooperation actions dedicated to international cooperation partner countries (SICA)Coordinator
1211 Geneve
Switzerland
Participants (29)
150 00 Praha 5
1211 Geneva 23
8600 Dubendorf
0160 Tbilisi
75352 Paris
08290 Cerdanyola Del Valles
61166 Kharkiv
2600 Berchem Antwerpen
199034 Saint Petersburg
34469 Maslak Istanbul
72312 Melitopol
1201 Geneva
1040 Sofia
820112 Tulcea
68600 Izmail
99011 Sevastopol
023993 Bucharest
013686 Bucuresti
65026 Odessa
400114 Cluj Napoca
Participation ended
1095 Budapest
34353 Istanbul
09050 Pula Cagliari
1220 Vienna
1784 Sofia
95007 Simferopol
1051 Budapest
06560 Ankara
29016 Malaga