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Towards e-Environment

Conclusions of the Conference

 


The conference "Towards e-Environment: Opportunities of SEIS and SISE Integrating Environmental Knowledge in Europe", strongly desired by the Czech EU presidency, in office until 30 June 2009, was organized by the University of Masaryk, in collaboration with the Czech Ministry of Environment, the European Commission, the European Environment Agency, the European Space Agency and several Czech research institutes including Czech Agency for Environmental Information.
The conference saw over 400 participants as speakers, including the presence of the distinguished Executive Director, Prof. Jacqueline McGlade, director of programs for the ESA Earth observation, Mr. Volker Liebig, representatives of the Joint Research Center and also the GMES office of DG Enterprise and Industry. Underlying theme of the conference was the integration of knowledge on European environment and the deepening on the proposal of the European Commission, in cooperation with EEA, to give birth to a Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) to create, with all the Member States, an integrated and shared system of environmental information capable to collect data and environmental information flows in real time, even making use of GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security) and to use Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to display maps on the state of European environment on issues such as quality and quantity of water, waste management and air quality, monitoring of soil, protected areas and limits for emissions.

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