Visit of InfoRAC to EEA, Copenhagen, 19-20 April 2017
As a follow-up of the initial meeting held in Rome, 6-8 February 2017, the Information and Communication Regional Activity Centre (InfoRAC) of UN environment Mediterranean Action Plan visited EEA in Copenhagen 19-20 April 2017.
This second meeting aimed at fostering communication between EEA and Info RAC teams and has been an opportunity for the EEA team to share its knowledge and experience about reporting systems, tools and procedures used by the EEA for collecting, managing and sharing data as well as to exchange on further development of the Mediterranean knowledge platform InfoMAP conceived to provide and share data, information services and knowledge in the Mediterranean. Knowledge exchanges and a series of thematic demo regarding tools and process on data management and infrastructure took place with the EEA IT group. This meeting offered a platform to ensure knowledge transfer and better harmonisation of standards and procedures in particular as regard reporting processes for the Ecosystem Approach (EcAp) and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD).
In addition the meeting allowed as well to further developed the work plan for the infrastructure component (Work Package 4) of ENI SEIS South II Support Mechanism.