VESTA-GIS

Vocational Education and Sectoral Training network on GIS and GI Applications Domains. The aim is to pool knowledge in the GIS domain, to share experience and foster innovation in vocational training, as well as to identify the trends and skills requirements in this area. SADL analyses the emerging needs as a result of the INSPIRE initiative.

November 1, 2007 – October 31, 2010
Leonardo Da Vinci Programme, EC EAC EA
Partners: GISIG (lead), SADL/K.U.Leuven R&D, University of Gävle, University of Salzburg, University of Rome, IRIDE ACQUA GAS S.p.A. and ICCOPS

eSDI-Net+

eSDI-Net+ is a Thematic Network for promotion of cross border dialogue and exchange of best practices on Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI's) throughout Europe. The network of 21 organisations from 15 countries is co-funded by the EU eContentPlus programme. SADL is active member of the network.

October 1, 2007 - September 30, 2010
eContentPlus programme, EC DG INFSO
Partners: INI-GraphicsNet (lead) and 19 other European partners
http://www.esdinetplus.eu/

ePSIPlus

ePSIplus is a Thematic Network, funded by the eContentplus programme, to support the implementation of the European Directive on Public Sector Information (PSI) Re-use, in the period leading up to its review in 2008. The ePSIplus portal provides access to a wide range of knowledge emerging in this field, across all EU member states, of key interest to public and private sector stakeholders, together with an opportunity to engage in debate on key issues.
In this way, ePSIplus is setting out to provide a one-stop shop for key information on PSI re-use across Europe including news, reports, legal cases, good practices and benchmarking on the progress of legislation.
The ePSIplus Network community includes organisations and individuals who are stakeholders from every European country in PSI re-use, from the public and private sector. The Network also involves 25 European national representative organisations and a number of European Associations participating in promoting the Network and offering local insights and knowledge.

September 1, 2006 – August 31, 2008
EC DG InfoSoc
Partners: MDR Partners and 25 other European partners

INSPIRE State of Play Study 2002-2007

The study aims to describe, monitor and assess the development of the NSDI of 32 European countries between 2002 and 2007. Information related to five major components of the NSDI, i.e. data, metadata, network services, standards and the organisational set-up of the NSDI, and the environmental application domain, is collected and analysed annually.

August 1, 2002 - December 31, 2007
EC ESTAT, EC DG ENV and EC JRC
Partners: SADL/K.U.Leuven R&D and ICRI/K.U.Leuven

http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/state_of_play.cfm

INSPIRE Drafting Teams

The European Commission has set up 5 Drafting Teams to prepare the implementing rules for the INSPIRE Directive. The teams cover 5 topics: metadata, data specifications, network services, data and service sharing, and monitoring & reporting. Danny Vandenbroucke from SADL is co-chair of the DT on Monitoring & Reporting, Joep Crompvoets from the Public Management Institute is member of the same DT, while Katleen Janssen from ICRI is co-chair of the DT on Data and Service Sharing.

October 1, 2005 - December 31, 2008
EC ESTAT, EC DG ENV and EC JRC
Partners: More than 200 European Spatial Data Interest Communities (SDIC) and Legally Mandated Organisations (LMO)
http://www.ec-gis.org/inspire/

Streamlining Climate Change and Air Polution Reporting

The project supports the Commission in reviewing the environmental reporting mechanisms. It ensures that the planned revision of the Monitoring Mechanisms contributes to addressing known weaknesses in current EU air and climate legislation for the generation of environmental data. The goal is to facilitate a high standard of comparable data in the fields of air and climate change, with minimised burden on Member States.

November 20, 2007 - June 20, 2008
EC DG ENV
Partners: AEA Energy & Environment (lead), PWC-NL, TNO-NL and K.U.Leuven (SADL and ICRI)

Kerosine - Restructuring Organisations in the Knowledge Economy

KEROSINE (Knowledge Economy and Regional Strategies for Organisational and Sustainable Innovation) is a four-year’s project that started on the 1st of July 2006. It is a Strategic Basic Research project financed by the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders.

This project is about the question of economic restructuring and organisational innovation in Flanders from the perspective of the globalised (knowledge-based) economy and taking into account the regional institutional environment. Globalisation refers to the actual tendencies with respect to the international level on which social division of labour is (re)organised within economic value chains and the growing networking and integration of communication-, production- and market processes. The theoretically underpinned assumption is that globalisation is manageable by well-informed and strategically oriented decision makers.

July 1, 2006 - June 30, 2010
Partners: KUL Ceso, HIVA, UGent-Vlerick, IWT
http://www.kerosineproject.be/