PCC in the EUPlenary Meeting under the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU29 November 2012 – Pafos - Cyprus

EUROGI The European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information

Unlocking the Power of Geographic Information

Catharina Bamps

Secretary-General EUROGI

ww.eurogi.eu

EUROGI

The OrganisationMembership & GovernanceVision und MissionCurrent Activities

European focused influencing activitiesConferences/workshopsEU-Projects

EUROGI – the Organisation

Foundation (“Stichting”) under Dutch Law (NGO) established in 1994 at the suggestion of the EC; First 2 years : EC funding, since then own funding (membership)Continuously collaborating and in dialogue with EU/EC and other GI Associations EuroGeographics, EuroSDR, PCC, AGILE, CEN/TC287 GI, OGC, ISOCARP ... Ensure that the views of the GI-users and enterprises/SMEs are fully represented at European level

EUROGI – the Organisation

Example: ELS: European Location Strategy (EUROGI Newsletter Juli-August 2012)

10/07/2012: Meeting of the Presidents of European geo-information associationsPurpose of the meeting:- Continuation of the development of closer cooperation between the organizations and a common strategy: European Location Strategy;- More clarity in our communication with the European policy and legislation and better coordination of our activities;

EUROGI - Membership & Governance

Membership‘Afiliated‘ Organisations A, B and C

A-members: National GI Associations

B-members: Corporate Members (Autodesk, ESRI, Intergraph & SMEs coming in…)

C-members: other associations/networks (European Association of Remote Sensing Companies, GI Norden (Nordic Countries), Centre for Knowledge Transfer (CEKTRA)) http://eurogi.org/eurogi-members.html

EUROGI – Membership & Governance

A-members (16)AESIG, Spain

AFIGEO, France

AGEO, Austria

AM/FM GIS Italia, Italy

CAGI, Czech Republic

CC Belgium, Belgium

DDGI, Germany

DGT (former IGP), Portugal

ESTGIS, Estonia

GEOFORUM Danmark, Denmark

GEONOVUM, The Netherlands

HUNAGI, Hungary

IRLOGI, Ireland

LISA, Iceland

SOGI, Switzerland

ULI Geoforum, Sweden

B-members (5)AUTODESK National GI Associations

ESRI

Geospace consulting

INTERGRAPH

ISPiK

C-Members (3)CEKTRA, Slovenia

EARSC

GI NORDEN

EUROGI - Membership & Governance

GovernanceGeneral Board – all members / sets overall policy / 2x meet annuallyExecutive Committee – policy implementation / up to 9 membersPresident – Mr Bruce McCormack

2 year term / overall management of EUROGI / represents EUROGI in public / chairs Board and Excom meetingsVice President – Mr François Salgé

deputise for President when necessary Treasurer – Mr Mauro Salvemini

management of finances / preparation of annual budgetSecretariat - day to day running / Secretary General & legal/admin

officer

EUROGI - Vision and Mission

VisionGeographic Information with all its aspects should become a fully integrated component of the European knowledge-based society

Mission In order to ensure good governance, economic and social development, environmental protection and sustainability, and informed public participation, the mission is to maximise the availability, effective use and exploitation of GI throughout Europe

This requires EUROGI to stimulate, encourage and support the development and effective use of GI and relevant technologies, and to act as channel of the voice for the European GI community, private and public sectors alike.

EUROGI - Vision und Mission (Strategic Framework 2013 – 2015 – draft by SG)

Basis: SWOT analysis (Strengths Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats)

Proposal updated mission - 4 strategic objectives (operational objectives - work plan) currently being discussed: (membership, influencing, projects, knowledge-sharing network)

EUROGI – current ActivitiesEuropean focused influencing activities

Contributions to EU policy development as it relates to GI/ SDI matters (awareness activities, position papers, publications ...)http://eurogi.org/downloads/category/11-eurogi-position-papers.html

- GMES funding- Digital Agenda & GI: result! GI is back in the draft work programme of DG-CONNECT for 2013- Common Strategic Framework for EU research and innovation funding (Research Green Paper)- Implementation of INSPIRE and Open Data: access to biological monitoring data and metadata (with the support of CITES / UNEP, UNEP-WCMC)

EUROGI – current ActivitiesEuropean focused influencing activities

•Maintaining strong links with the Commission DGs: DG CONNECT e.g. regular meetings, GMES office, Eurostat, (GISCO meetings), JRC .... other DGs;•Establish links with the European Parliament (INSPIRE, GMES..)

EUROGI – current Activities

European focused influencing activities • EULF : European Union Location Framework: aims to improve

the integration of geo-location in the various processes: government-to-government (G2G), government-to-business (G2B) and government-to-citizen (G2C) ;

• EUROGI is a member of the expert group to assess the results of the EULF work-program;

EUROGI - current Activities

Conferences/workshopsRepresentation at various conferences / workshops such as INSPIRE Conference (presentations);

Endorsement of events, activities e.g. Geospace 2012 Conference, Geospatial World Forum 2013, AGILE 2013 ...;

EUROGI - current ActivitiesConferences/workshops

EUROGI/eSDI-Net subnational SDIs Best Practices Awards (2009, 2011): database online available;

http://eurogi.org/esdinet-assessment/sdi-best-practice-database.html

Next edition: 2013

Benefits e.g. French winner 2011: the award facilitated to receive local subsidies

EUROGI - current ActivitiesConferences/workshops

15/11/2012 - EUROGI EM-GI workshop (Lisbon): Chances for GMES in the Geo-information market - results of the

GRAAL* Earth Monitoring-Geographic Information survey

53 replies from GI service providers

*GRAAL: GMES for Regions: awareness and Access Link

(FP7 project)

AUSTRIA 3BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA 1BULGARIA 1CROATIA 1CZECH REPUBLIC 5

DENMARK 1ESTONIA 3FINLAND 2FRANCE 10GERMANY 16GREECE 1NETHERLANDS 1POLAND 1PORTUGAL 2SLOVAKIA 2SLOVENIA 1SWEDEN 1UKRAINE 1

EUROGI - current ActivitiesConferences/workshops

16/11/2012 - EUROGI Extra Members’ Meeting (Lisbon):

The future of the data-economy: business strategies and models for spatial data

Individual presentations (DG CONNECT, JRC, SMEs, EUROGI members) and panel discussions

EUROGI - current ActivitiesEUROGI Conference 2013: 7 & 8 March 2013 – Dublin Convention Centre (Ireland):

unlocking the Power of Geographic Information Today and Tomorrow…: imaGIne opportunities everywhere

Day 1 (March 7): Opportunities today: how to use existing geospatial data, services and technologies to help solve significant European to local economic, governance, social and environmental problems and map current opportunities for job creation, business opportunities, social inclusion, more efficient energy usage and climate change.

Day 2 (March 8): trends affecting the future of GI / GIS / SDI: key challenges such as job creation / economic growth, environmental sustainability and social cohesion.

EUROGI - current ActivitiesConference week! 4 to 8 March 2013 - Convention Centre Dublin (CCD - Ireland)

EUROGI & IRLOGI have facilitated and are supporting partners

- First EYE on Earth User Conference: 4, 5, 6 March 2013 - European Environment Agency

- ENVIROFI Conference Day and demonstrations: 6 March 2013 - JRC

- Irish Presidency related event (from 1 January to 30 June 2013 Ireland hosts the Presidency of the Council of the European Union)

- IRLOGI Organizational Support

EUROGI - current ActivitiesConference week! 4 to 8 March 2013 - Convention Centre Dublin (CCD - Ireland)

EUROGI - current ActivitiesEU-Projects

GRAAL (FP7): GMES for Regions: Awareness and Access Link: EUROGI is in the Advisory Board + EM GI survey / workshop

EUROGI / eSDI-Net Award for regional and local spatial data infrastructures;

+ Solution available for all EUROGI members, working with Afigéo Online-Database with advanced website/functionalities for the successful implementation of the 2013 Awards

EUROGI - current ActivitiesEU-Projects

LAPSI 2.0: Legal Aspects of Public Sector InformationICT-PSP-CIP1 - thematic network - open data and open access to scientific information - c)

Legal aspects of public sector information)

EUROGI: Stakeholder in the network

UPSIDE DOWN PROTECT (about geospatial metadata underground utility services)

(HOME/2011/CIPS/AG - Prevention, preparedness and consequence management of management of terrorism and other security related risks - Action Grants 2011)

EUROGI participates as a partner

EUROGI - current ActivitiesEU-Projects

Apps4EU: Apps for Europe - Turning Data into Business(CIP-ICT-PSP - thematic network - Organising competitions for using open data)

EUROGI is a support partner

ATTRACT-SEE: South-Eastern Europe program. Policymaking capacity in SEE

Partnership 19 partners - Geodetic Institute Slovenia is the leading institute.

EUROGI is a supporting partner

Plan4business: a service platform for aggregation, processing and analysis of urban and regional planning Data

EUROGI is a member of the Stakeholder Forum

EUROGI - current ActivitiesGlobal Developments

-GSDI Association: EUROGI is a founding member, President EUROGI is a member of the board

-EUROGI supports the UN Global Geospatial Information Management Initiative (GGIM)

EUROGI – Becoming a member

Interested in EUROGI membership?

Key benefits (see this presentation)

Fees, application form:

http://eurogi.org/downloads/category/63-eurogi-membership.html

Or contact Secretary-General

Catharina.Bamps@eurogi.org

info@eurogi.org

Thank you!