Periodic Report Summary - EGIDA (Coordinating Earth and Environmental cross-disciplinary projects to promote GEOSS)
EGIDA set up and operated an Advisory Board (AB) guaranteeing a synergetic action with other relevant European and international initiatives and getting important guidance on the project activities and outcomes (e.g. from the STC members who sit in the board). A first AB meeting was held in Bonn.
EGIDA set up and operated a Stakeholder Network (SN) providing a link between the EGIDA project and the broad European and international S&T community relevant to GEO. Two SN meetings were held in Rome and Bonn.
Jointly with GEO and EC, EGIDA organised three workshops:
EGIDA organized a workshop (back-to-back with the GEO STC-15) entitled: "1st STC-EGIDA joint Workshop" (Rome, Sep 2011).
EGIDA (lead by ISPRA) organized and hosted a meeting entitled "Workshop on the National initiatives for implementing EO/GEOSS" (Rome, Apr, 2011).
In collaboration with the University of Bonn, EGIDA organised the "1st Joint Workshop of the EGIDA Stakeholder Network and Advisory Board Connecting GEOSS and its Stakeholders in Science and Technology" (Bonn, May 2011).
EGIDA established a collaboration with the FP7 projects BALKANGEONET and OBSERVE as far as: registration of scientific data sets and the EGIDA methodology transfer. The three projects are organising a workshop at the next GEO plenary in Istanbul (Nov 2011).
As to dissemination and outreach, EGIDA worked out two newsletters, started a LinkedIn group, produced articles and interviews on the IEEE Earthzine journal, gave presentations of the project at significant conferences (e.g. IEEE IGARSS, AGU, EGU) and workshops (e.g. GEPWS, AirQuality CoP workshop), and produced an initial list of relevant Conferences and Workshops and an initial Directory of relevant Science Networks.
EGIDA worked out draft documents discussing: the "Process for communicating the scientific priorities in Earth Observation"; the "Methodology and process for the evaluation of the relevance of specific observation infrastructure", and the "Continuity indicator for GEOSS components" are under consideration by the STC co-chairs and will be finalised after having received the necessary feedbacks from the GEO ExComm (November 2011, at the GEO plenary in Istanbul).
EGIDA set up and operated a Stakeholder Network (SN) providing a link between the EGIDA project and the broad European and international S&T community relevant to GEO. Two SN meetings were held in Rome and Bonn.
Jointly with GEO and EC, EGIDA organised three workshops:
EGIDA organized a workshop (back-to-back with the GEO STC-15) entitled: "1st STC-EGIDA joint Workshop" (Rome, Sep 2011).
EGIDA (lead by ISPRA) organized and hosted a meeting entitled "Workshop on the National initiatives for implementing EO/GEOSS" (Rome, Apr, 2011).
In collaboration with the University of Bonn, EGIDA organised the "1st Joint Workshop of the EGIDA Stakeholder Network and Advisory Board Connecting GEOSS and its Stakeholders in Science and Technology" (Bonn, May 2011).
EGIDA established a collaboration with the FP7 projects BALKANGEONET and OBSERVE as far as: registration of scientific data sets and the EGIDA methodology transfer. The three projects are organising a workshop at the next GEO plenary in Istanbul (Nov 2011).
As to dissemination and outreach, EGIDA worked out two newsletters, started a LinkedIn group, produced articles and interviews on the IEEE Earthzine journal, gave presentations of the project at significant conferences (e.g. IEEE IGARSS, AGU, EGU) and workshops (e.g. GEPWS, AirQuality CoP workshop), and produced an initial list of relevant Conferences and Workshops and an initial Directory of relevant Science Networks.
EGIDA worked out draft documents discussing: the "Process for communicating the scientific priorities in Earth Observation"; the "Methodology and process for the evaluation of the relevance of specific observation infrastructure", and the "Continuity indicator for GEOSS components" are under consideration by the STC co-chairs and will be finalised after having received the necessary feedbacks from the GEO ExComm (November 2011, at the GEO plenary in Istanbul).