8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E  To ensure that the objectives of NEFIS are reached and activities completed in accordance with the time schedule  To ensure the dissemination of information within and outside the consortium  To plan and organize the management committee, steering committee and plenary meetings and the symposium  Co-operation with the steering committee  To manage the budget NEFIS WP 1: Project Management Partners: EFI, JRC, IUFRO, Uni. Hamburg Objectives:

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E WP1 partners EFI – responsible for overall coordination and finances JRC – S&T link between the project developments and the needs from other Commission services. Also documentation/dissemination of results and preparation of proposals for follow-up work IUFRO – technical management Uni. of Hamburg (previously Dresden TU) – implement evaluation

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D1: Project webpages Project webpages WP3 webpages NEFIS Knowledge Base Discussion Forums Forum related to NEFIS KB and other WP3 work Forum for other NEFIS WPs. Is there a need? And if there is, where should it be?

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D8: Popular articles Year 1 –EFI News. 2003, issue 1-2. p. 17. –Linea Ecologica - Economia Montana. Anno. XXXV, No. 5, pp Agrimi, M. di, Chirici, G., Grohmann, F. et al. NEFIS – Rete europea per lo sviluppo di un sistema informativo dedicato al settore forestale. –GeoInformatics, March 2004, v.7 (2), pp Schuck, A., Van Brusselen, J. and Andrienko., G The European Forest Information Demonstrator - EFIS. Querying the Forests of Europe. Year 2 –EFI News, IUFRO News –Other partner institute Newsletters ?? –Other popular journals in partner countries ??

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D14: Articles in Science and IT journals Year 1 –Andrienko, N. et al Tools for Visual Comparison of Spatial Development Scenarios. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization. IEEE Computer Society. –Schuck, A. et al The European Forest Information System - an Internet based interface between information providers and the user community. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (accepted). –Chertov, O. et al Geovisualization of forest simulation modelling results: a case study of carbon sequestration and biodiversity. Computers and Electronics in Agriculture (accepted). –Kennedy, P. et al European Forest Information System - EFIS. A step towards better access to forest information. Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring. Kluwer AP Publishers

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D14: Articles in science and IT journals Year 2 –Richards, T., Schuck, A., et al. UML description of an extended European Forest Information Service. To be submitted to Forest Policy and Economics. –Others

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E Bi-annual report to Management Committee In year 2 there will be a bi-annual progress report from the Work Packages and all partners September/October 2004 to be presented to the MC at the meeting in November 2004

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D13: Final Report Final report to Commission describing the work progress and achieved results (due June/July 2005) –Work Package final reports to EFI – April 2005 –Partner final reports to EFI – April 2005 –Cost statement (partners to send final cost statements to coordinator (EFI) after the final meeting – June/July 2005). Coordinator to send cost statement to Commission – August 2005 –The need for a second annual progress report will be confirmed with the Commission. However, cost statements for the second year (1 March 2004 to 28 February 2005) will be needed from all partners – March 2005.

8/16/2014 E U R O P E A N F O R E S T I N S T I T U T E D15: Symposium Report & D16: Final publication D15: Recommendations for the Future – August 2005 D16: Final publication Partner 2 (JRC) in collaboration with partner 1 (EFI) – August 2005