1. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 1 Overview and status of the project

2. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 1st semester

3. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 2nd semester

4. WP7 Networking and Dissemination WP1 Project management Oct ‘10 May ‘10 Nov ‘09 May ‘09 Nov ‘08 May ‘08 WP2 SoP T2.1 WP3 Sop Synthesis WP4 ICT Roadmap outlines WP5 ICT Roadmap validation WP6 Consultation/ assessment WP2 T2.2 Best Practice Network development WPs Timetable WP2 T2.2 Best Practice Request of P.O. Guidelines (DoW) Draft ICT Roadmap Structure Guidelines Structure Draft SoP live deliverable (updated Info, more countries)

5. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 The first phase of the project has been mainly devoted to: the start-up of the project and of the network, together with administrative assessment and reporting activity. See WP1 Project management; the activity at national level for the analysis of the State of Play about the ICT components that will contribute to the development of SEIS in the different Partner Countries, according to a common analysis and reporting template. See WP2 State of play at National level - task 2.1; the identification of good practices of ICT solutions for managing environmental data and collection of relevant information about the above practices according to a template, as well as the organisation of the collected practices into the “NESIS Best Practice Catalogue”, actually developed in a prototype version. See WP2 - task 2.2 “Analysis and best practices”;

6. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 the definition of the structure of the ICT Roadmap for the implementation of SEIS, together with the definition of the structure of complementary “Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental and monitoring”. See WP4 ICT roadmap outlines; the NESIS network development at a National and European level, including the effort for a consensus building of the project. Moreover, the establishment of the NESIS web site, the production of promotional material and the organisation of NESIS workshops. See WP7 Networking and dissemination.

7. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 The next phase of the project M7-8 to M12 will be devoted to the assessment of the State of Play at National level, and the identification and collection of Best Practices, that are anyway considered as a “living” tasks till the end of the project (ref WP2); the synthesis of the State of Play and its validation at European level (ref. WP3); the assessment of the structure of the deliverables “ICT roadmap” and “Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental and monitoring” and a progress in their implementation (ref WP4);

8. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 the development of the NESIS network throughout actions at National and European level, such as the organisation of meetings and workshops and the active participation in the main events related to the NESIS mission. Particular effort will be dedicated to the country scope enlargement of the network, with the involvement of stakeholders representatives of countries not yet included in NESIS (ref WP7). In this perspective, for example, a project workshop “SEIS/NESIS - ICT Components for SEIS around Europe” has been proposed and accepted in the context of the European Conference "Towards eEnvironment" (Prague 25-27 March 2009); the links with other initiatives and actions related to the SEIS implementation, such as the identification of priorities for further ICT initiatives of DG INFSO and the establishment of a proactive collaboration with the Technical Group of the SEIS Task Force.

9. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 Deviation from work plan WP 1 - Project management Contract Amendment to formalise the substitution of APAT with ISPRA. On the occasion, some minor ccorrections were also made on DoW (Annex I to the Agreement). Shifting of one month of the date of the second project meeting, scheduled on M7 instead of M6 As consequence various project activities, such as the First semester workshop and various deliverables planned for month 6, have been postponed as well by one month.

10. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 WP 2 State of play at National Level Minor delay for the preparation of the templates for the report of the State of Play and for the Best Practices collection, the State of Play (D 2.3) is considered as living deliverables. It will be enriched during the project development and at the end of the project a final release is expected, also to include the SoP of other countries. In particular, the reports of the SoP will be considered, within the WP3 – SoP synthesis and validation at EU level. Then, during this activity an assessment of the SoP at National level is also planned.

11. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 WP4 ICT Roadmap outlines In the original proposal, the WP4 tasks were planned to start after the first year of the project, in order to get inputs from the WP2 and WP3 results. During the negotiation phase, it was agreed to anticipate the Task 4.1 (ICT guidelines) During the project meetings, it came up the need to consider both the documents since the first phase of the project. That in order to be able to exploit in a better way the complementarity between the two deliverables that will be progressively developed in parallel during the project.

12. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 Proposed milestones and deliverables: Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental monitoring and reporting D4.1.1 Draft document structure (M6) D4.1.2 Interim version (M18) D4.1.3 Final version (M30) ICT Roadmap D4.2.1 Draft document structure (M6) D4.2.2 Draft version (M18) To be followed the deliverables of WP5 and WP6: D5.1 ICT Roadmap (intermediate version) (M24) D6.2 ICT Roadmap final version for the Commission (M30)

13. Brussels, January 16th, 2009 WP7 Networking and dissemination shifting by one month for the organisation of the First Semester Workshop (M7, instead of M6). That is order to meet the opportunity to organise the NESIS workshop back to back with a EIONET NRC IS meeting As a consequence, also the related deliverables have been shifted About the National workshops, the Italian NESIS event was anticipated to the first period to make profit of the SEIS Country visit scheduled in September 2008.

14. Deliverables produced so far

15. Deliverable NoDeliverable nameForeseen delivery date (project month) Status 1.1Project Handbook2Done 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3Periodic Progress Reports6, 18, 30Done 1.2.1 1.3.1, 1.3.2Final Project Report (public and confidential versions)30 2.1Template for Best Practice and National State-of-play Report 2Done 2.2Report of kick-off workshop2Done 2.3State-of-Play report on national environmental information systems and services 6Done 2.4NESIS Best Practice Catalogue (template) Online Catalogue (prototype) 6Done 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3NESIS Best Practices6, 18, 30Done 2.4.1 2.5Report of first semester Workshop6Done 3.1Summary report on the status of environmental monitoring and reporting in Europe 12 3.2Report of the second semester workshop12 Status of the Project Deliverables

16. Deliverable No Deliverable nameForeseen delivery date (project month) Status Guidelines on ICT supporting environmental monitoring and reporting 4.1.1Draft document structure6Done 4.1.2 Interim version 18 4.1.3Final version30 ICT Roadmap 4.2.1Draft document structure6Done 4.2.2 Draft version 18 4.3Report of the third semester workshop (ICT workshop)18 5.1ICT roadmap (intermediate version)24 5.2Report of the fourth semester workshop24 6.1Expected impacts by the ICT roadmap implementation30 6.2ICT Roadmap final version for the Commission30 6.3Report of the final workshop30 7.1Web Site3Done 7.2Leaflet 7.3.xNESIS Workshops2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30Done: 7.3.1 7.3.2 7.4.xWorkshops Proceedings2, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30Done: 7.4.1 7.4.2 7.5Final plan for the dissemination of foreground29 National Workshops Italy: Report and leaflet-Done (M5)