GISCO Working Party Meeting Luxembourg, 18 March 2014 EUROGI The European Umbrella Organisation for Geographic Information: Update on achievements and conference Dr. Wolfgang Steinborn Member of the EUROGI Management Committee (Vice-president DDGI, c/o DLR / German Aerospace Centre) www.eurogi.eu

Vision Geographic Information (GI) in all its aspects should become a fully integrated component of the European knowledge based society EUROGI – Who we are Foundation (“Stichting”) under Dutch Law (NGO / non-for-profit), established in 1994 at the suggestion of the EC Network of networks to - consolidate the views of the GI users and service providers (public, private, scientific) towards European policy, - stimulate and facilitate inter-disciplinary exchange between GI stakeholders in member countries Participating with network services in European projects Sub-national Spatial Data Infrastructure database and awards Conferences (imaGIne), news blogs, website Collaborating with relevant topical associations at EU level Representing European GI at global level

MEMBERSHIP CONSTITUTION (only corporate members) EUROGI – Who we are MEMBERSHIP CONSTITUTION (only corporate members) “A-members”: National GI Associations (16) “B-members”: GI-service providers with pan-European activities (5) “C-Members”: Other associations / networks with relevance for GI (3) 2 General Board meetings per year

EUROGI – (Re-)Current Activities: European affairs Input to GI-relevant European policies (Digital Agenda, INSPIRE, HORIZON-2020, Big Data, Open Government Data, European Union Location Framework, Regional Policy etc.) through Position papers, consultancy etc. Support to the transfer of large European GI infrastructures (GALILEO, COPERNICUS) into the professional practice Project participation by EUROGI or member organisations, e.g. - LAPSI: Legal Aspects of Public Sector Information - UPSIDE DOWN: preparedness for risks to underground facility networks - Apps4EU: Turning Data into Business - ATTRACT-SEE: Capacity building in South-Eastern Europe - PLAN4BUSINESS: a service platform for aggregation, processing and analysis of urban and regional planning data - GI – Need to know (GI-N2K): towards a more demand-driven geospatial workforce education & training system

EUROGI – (Re-)Current Activities: International affairs Contribution to relevant international organisations: Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (founded 1996 by EUROGI members), UN Initiative on Global Geospatial Information Management, International Bar Association (of Lawyers: privacy protection etc.) Emerging issues to use geospatial initiatives in the societal context of disaster management

EUROGI – Future Orientation: Z-axis: reality Y-axis: re-vitalising the former EGIN (European GI Network) Group in connection with the co conference X-axis: to be developed EUROGI – Future Orientation: Y X Z

HUNAGI / HU: Market-Pull-Pack for COPERNICUS 2013 EUROGI – Examples of Member Activities: HUNAGI / HU: Market-Pull-Pack for COPERNICUS 2013 SUMMARY CONCLUSIONS: GI world met Space world in a survey exercise in Hungary and a final pan-European workshop. Participants’ Resolution to the address of those, who have to justify the amount of data generated through societal and commercial acceptance, confirms earlier findings that the mainstream of professional use has not yet been reached (<30%) and gives advice for remedy The GI community has in exemplary cases contributed two major assets: - middle-ware (technologies such as data compression and mining) to overcome barriers to less equipped local users (DDGI example) - de-centralised training through regional GI networks (AFIGEO example) EUROGI and its member associations in European countries can provide outreach - to the GI community esp. GI industry (mostly SME) to assimilate COPERNICUS in user workflows and develop and market customer-friendly solutions - to relevant gatherings that represent the full multi-disciplinarity of GI (public, private, research)

IRLOGI / IE: Hosted the first European GI Conference 2013 EUROGI – Examples of Member Activities: IRLOGI / IE: Hosted the first European GI Conference 2013 Keynotes by are downloadable from http://eurogi.org/eventseurogi/eurogi-conferences/2013-dublin-conferences/keynote-speakers

nd European Conference 2014 EUROGI – Invitation: nd European Conference 2014 National GI events and events organised from outside Europe have grown in recent years A European GI event was missing despite large European investments (INSPIRE, GALILEO, COPERNICUS…) imaGIne is the answer and should be supported by all stakeholders in Europe To solidify the mark a strong environment in the form of the Intergeo was chosen for the 2nd realisation www.imagine2014.eu

nd European Conference 2014 EUROGI – Invitation: nd European Conference 2014 Provisional structure with room for partner events by DGs of the European Commission Topical organisations / Associations etc.

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European Urban Atlas: Land-cover / Land-use in 20 categories for 300 to 500 European Larger Urban Zones; 2006, 2012, 2015… ~1:10.000 (50x50m² MMU) as GIS-ready Vector data Free download from: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data#c11=landuse&c17=&c5=all&c0=5&b_start=15