Status RiS Portal  Launched May 19, 2014  Sept. 19: Guarantee period for 1 year + development  9 fix releases already:  Measures to meet certain security standards  Improved tools for all administrators (incl. stations and KB)  Better application documents to the Governor  Improvements wanted (needs financing):  Lists of bookings and personnel - stations  Metadata – get it up and running as before  Increased map functionality  Open for communication with other services (metadatabases, publication databases, map services etc.)  Improved search and statistics  Design issues  Information migration – collecting parts that dropped out  Booking in Hornsund?

Status: SIOS  5 th and final General Assembly in Brussels 24-25/9:  The SIOS project should continue,  through an interim phase of up to three years with a set-up team in Longyearbyen,  towards a fully functional operational phase (2017-).  Use the implementation plans to build the services under the SIOS Knowledge Centre.  SIOS-PP ended formally on 30/9.  Norw. host proposal for setting up SIOS KC in Longyearbyen  SIOS partners are invited to commit to the implementation phase ( ), by submitting Letters of Commitment to the coordinator: It, Ger, Fin, Jpn  4 th Policy Board meeting in Oslo 20-21/11 – SIOS “Kick off”?  Sufficient LOCs to start the implementation phase by this meeting.  It is expected that Norway will organise interim solutions for the implementation with the establishment of a SIOS Knowledge Centre Setup Team, interim governing bodies etc., and will during the implementation phase (at earliest 2015) formally establish SIOS as a new MoU-based organisation supported by a Norwegian AS, if sufficient commitments and progress is made.  Norway will organise interim solutions for the implementation with the establishment of a SIOS Knowledge Centre Setup Team, interim governing bodies etc., and will at earliest during 2015 formally establish SIOS as a new organisation (Norwegian AS) based on a MoU agreement among the partners, if sufficient commitments and progress is made.

SIOS deliverables  All deliverables promised with 2000 pages of reports will be submitted to EU and made available on the SIOS website. The deliverables that are handed over to the Stakeholders are:  Proposal for legal and governance structure for the SIOS Knowledge Centre (Statutes, Policy docs., MoU)  Implementation plans for the services delivered by the SIOS Knowledge Centre (Data, Access, Logistics, Remote Sensing, Training, Portal).  Business plan for the Implementation (Letter of Commitments) and Operational phase (Financial Strategy with membership fees).