Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia BalkanGEONet FP7 Project Balkan GEO Network – Towards Inclusion of Balkan Countries into Global Earth Observation Initiatives Permanent Networking Facility Boris Antić Project manager University of Novi Sad Serbia Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Assessing EO communities 278 identified stakeholders SRB: 37 ROM: 7 GRE: 17 SLO: 46 CRO: 32 BiH: 25 BiH: 25 TUR: 28 ALB: 23 CYP: 1 BLG: 27 FYRM: 7 MNE: 28 BalkanGEONet OBSERVE

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Integrating outcomes of previously funded EO activities 235 identified activities SRB: 36 ROM: 18 GRE: 34 SLO: 40 CRO: 34 BiH: 14 ALB: 37 BLG: 39 FYRM: 11 MNE: 34 BalkanGEONet

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Data integration Stakeholders (government, SMEs, scientific community) EO activities (projects, programmes, initiatives…) Permanent Networking Facility (PNF)

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Sustainability Stakeholders (government, SMEs, scientific community) EO activities (projects, programmes, initiatives…) Permanent Networking Facility (PNF)

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia What is PNF? Balkan EO Directory – partner search – expertise search – EO activities search Has a role in a long-term process of strengthening collaboration among stakeholders Connecting stakeholders beyond the lifetime of the project

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia What PNF isnt! Not a GEOSS portal No EO data or metadata – But links to those could be provided Not a closed structure. Updates and renewal of data will be possible

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia What will it look like? Region Link to Google Maps API Compliant with the GEOSS sharing policy

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Features Searchable – Geographical (country, region, city) – SBAs – stakeholder type (user, provider…) – activity type and topic – data format, standards, accessibility Updateable – new entries – correction and editing of existing data on request Centralized management – no user accounts

Capacity Building and Resources Mobilization for the Balkan region, June 14 th, 2012, Belgrade, Serbia Backup system Novi Sad, Serbia Location Split,Croatia