1. SAEG 7th June 2016 Item 4.1
Eurostat work programme : priority areas-future Centre of Excellence – expected deliverables By Dario Buono

4. Next CoE on SA 3-years, Eurostat financing up to 450k €
Call closed in April To start in October 2016
Fields of activity
Knowledge sharing
Testing
Support of SA practitioners
Monitoring and reporting
Plug-Ins
Training, Coaching and Technical Assistance

5. Knowledge Sharing
The SACE should promote knowledge sharing on the use of JDemetra+ libraries and plug-ins by means of documentation, tutorial and training
International events:
NTTS 2017
WSC 2017

6. Support for SA practitioners
SA Helpdesk
JDemetra+ user documentation
User requirements
SAUG

7. Testing
The SACE should conduct tests of high-level JDemetra+ components in particular this work should focus on:
The new core engine functionality of a common RegARIMA for data pre-treatment;
Redundancy of seasonality tests

8. Monitoring and reporting
The SACE should monitor:
the progress of the JDemetra+ project and report to the SA Expert Group and Eurostat
the progress within the ESS of the actual implementation of the ESS guidelines on SA

9. Plug-Ins
The SACE should contribute to the development and testing of devoted plug-ins in order to:
Perform temporal disaggregation and benchmarking;
Produce Quality Reports on the seasonal adjustment process with inclusion of metadata according to ESMS structure;
Analyse revisions and storage vintages;
Deal with seasonality of weekly and daily data.

10. Training, coaching and technical assistance
Delivering each year two 3-days trainings, for beginners and advanced users as part of the ESTP;
Provide on-site consultancy sessions for SA practitioners;

11. QUESTIONS