Kick-off Meeting
Kick-off Meeting
Rome, 11-12 September, ISPRA Auditorium, via Curtatone, 7
The official launch of the international project
‘OneGeology-Europe’ has been held in ISPRA Auditorium.
“Only a constructive collaboration betweeen countries can
lead us to confront succesfully with the global challenges we are
facing.” These have been the words of the opening greeting of
ISPRA Commissioner. He also underlined the conviction that
environment protection depends first of all from an international
level planning. This initiative will allow Europe to have a leader
role inside the global OneGeology project, through the development
of a geological data system based on the guidelines given by the
Directive INSPIRE. Thirty national geological services
reunited for this occasion. Notable guests have been Marcel
Watelet, Project Officer and Ian Jackson, OneGeology executive
secretary, Project Manager for OneGeology-Europe and Director of
Operations of Britannic Geological Service, who confirmed the
superior level of the european project compared to the global one
for the faculty to elaborate more and more detailed data,
facilitating their publication.