SOER 2010 and SENSE Milan Chrenko European Environment Agency

Flow of the Session SENSE first phase Country experience – Belgium, Czech Republic Plans for futureDiscussion on the next steps

THE EUROPEAN ENVIRONMENT STATE AND OUTLOOK 2010 Thematic assessments Understanding climate change Air pollution Biodiversity Water resources: quantity & flows Soil Freshwater quality Consumption and environment Material resources and waste Land use Mitigating climate change Adapting to climate change Marine and coastal environment Assessment of global megatrends Political megatrends Country assessments Urban environment Environmental megatrends Each EEA member country (32) and EEA cooperating country (6) assessed all six environmental themes above. Climate change mitigation Nature protection & biodiversity National and regional stories Freshwater Air pollution Land use Country profiles Common environmental themes Waste Economic megatrends Technological megatrends Social megatrends Soil Land use Marine and coastal environment Soil Land use

* Kosovo under UNSCR 1244/99 Country assessments Each EEA member country (32) and EEA cooperating country (6) assessed all six environmental themes above. Climate change mitigation Nature protection & biodiversity National and regional stories Freshwater Air pollution Land use Country profiles Common environmental themes Waste SOER 2010: geographical coverage

Result?

Shared Environmental Information System - SEIS S 1. Shared (cooperation) Political commitment (legislative/non-legislative) Partnership (win-win) Networking (connecting) EI 2. Environmental Information (shared content) Horizontal integration (thematic) Vertical integration (local to global) Online access (near real time) For policy makers and public (multi-purpose) S 3. System (technology) Existing ICT Infrastructure Inspire, Reportnet, GMES,... New e-Services (e-Government)

Why Shared European and National State of the Environment information (SENSE)?

Objectives To implement a mechanism for SEIS compliant information sharing between national and European websites based on further enhancement of Reportnet, aiming at more timely and cost-efficient quality assured data flows i.e. assessments on the state and outlook of the environment as defined for SOER Part C 1.To consolidate Eionet and EEA user needs for ICT tools based on Linked Data - through sharing SOE information between the national and the European level. 2.To establish a process of online SOE-reporting from national websites to EEA SOE web site and vice versa enriching both the national and the European information base. 3.To improve the sharing of national and European information through the use of a Linked Data approach for SOE information through a pilot learning process for both EEA and Eionet. 4.To migrate SERIS links and information into the SOER 2010 web site. 5.To exchange know how (i.e. on Linked Data technology) between EEA and Eionet.

Simply to…. SENSE I Scenario 3Scenario 2Scenario 1

How did we get there? September Kicked off at the NRC EIS meeting A dedicated Task Force, coordinated by EEA, with NRC EIS Copenhagen, February 2010 Prague, May 2010 January – May 2010 Development of RDF feeds specifications May – November 2010 – Delivery of RDF feeds to EEA and testing November Launch of the web site November Belgian conference and Launch of SOER 2010 Dedicated helpdesk to support countries’ participation

What did we learn - Content? The project delivered the expected results and more countries than expected participated and delivered the feeds in the end. RDF is suitable for exchange of structured information. In the SENSE project that structure was given through the SOER Country Assessment guidelines. Through the RDF, the participating countries now have the possibility to share information, each country being responsible for their own information moving towards a more decentralised system in a SEIS coherent way.

Participating countries very engaged Task force and helpdesk model proofed to work Process equally important to a content Difficulties to match SENSE work with Part C guidelines (paper vs web) Follow up activities? What did we learn - Process?

Next phase…

Thank you for cooperation!