29 & 30 April 2009

Information Target audience Program Workshop preparation Practical information Registration Organisation committee Report

Report

• Report of EuroSDR workshop “EuroSDR-project Atlas of INSPIRE, Implementation methods” (29 – 30 April 2009) (pdf)
  

Information

Well-performing Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDIs) are not straightforward to implement due to many interdependent aspects (such as legal, economic, technological, organisational, and public administrative). In order to meet the INPSIRE directive, it is important for EU member states to know the key elements that lead to successful SDI implementation. In addition, the key areas for further research should be identified as soon as possible, to give the scientific community the possibility to carry out research supportive of the INSPIRE implementations. The ‘INSPIRE atlas of implementation methods’ meets these issues, by providing firstly a structured overview of INSPIRE implementation methods across the member states with references to the key documents in every state. Studying the experiences of the INSPIRE implementations is an important part of this inventory. Secondly, the atlas will define a research agenda for INSPIRE related topics. To accomplish this, two workshops will be organised: one in spring 2009 and another one in autumn 2009. The project is different than other similar projects such as ESDIN, eSDInet+ and INSPIRE State of Play, since it is explicitly a research project.

The input of EU member states is very valuable for our project. In addition, participation in our workshop will help individual states to learn from each other and to define common areas for further research. Therefore, we hereby invite the appropriate persons to participate in the workshop. As input for the first workshop, we will distribute a questionnaire among the participants beforehand, to get an overview of the current implementation methods and experiences as well as a preliminary list of areas for further research. The questions will be structured among the following themes: Economics, Law, Sociology, Public Administration, and Technology. In discussions during the workshop, the participants will elaborate on their INSPIRE experiences in the context of every theme: what are good examples and what are bad examples of implementation? What further research is required to support the INSPIRE implementation as well as future requirements with respect to the INSPIRE directive. A member state presentation of a characteristic example (selected from the analysis of the questionnaire results) will be used to introduce every discussion.

The duration of the first workshop, where much time will be dedicated to discussions, will be one and a half day. This workshop starts with a keynote held by Mr Philippe Busquin (former European Commissioner for Research (1999-2004) who initiated the INSPIRE directive. We aim at having two persons of each EU-member state: one from the organisation responsible for the INSPIRE implementation policy and another one  from the scientific community. The second workshop will extend the findings of the first workshop.

If you are interested in participating this workshop, you are kindly requested to contact one of the members of the organisation committee.

Target audience

The target group of the workshops are: 1) SDI-practitioners who would like to share their experiences of SDI/INSPIRE-implementation with others, 2) SDI-practitioners who did not yet start or have just commenced implementing SDIs and/or INSPIRE, and 3) scientists interested in the development, utility and requirements of SDIs. The project searches for two types of participants: 1) Active participants that are directly involved in the workshop organisation; and 2) Participants that participate in the workshops by presenting their method and experiences or by actively contributing to the (discussion) sessions. The expected size of participants is 25-40.
   
Persons interested to participate in the project can contact one of the three initiators of this project (Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Joep Crompvoets or Jantien Stoter; email addresses can be found at the bottom of this page).

Program

29 April 2009

9:00     Welcome

9:10     Program introduction

9:30     Keynote: Philippe Busquin, (former European Commissioner for Research (1999-2004) who initiated the INSPIRE directive)

10:15   Coffee break

10:45   Presentations of strategy examples from an organisational perspective
            (Coordination, task division, capacity building)

          Presentations from:

• Belgium (Ingrid Vanden Berghe (NGI))
• Bulgaria (Ivan Philipov, Agency for Sustainable Development and Eurointegration) (pdf)
• Sweden (Désiree Veschetti Holmgren and Per-Ola Lindbergh (Lantmäteriet)) (pdf)
• Switzerland (Christine Giger (Swiss INSPIRE Contact point)) (pdf)
• The Netherlands (Sandra Wijngaarden (Geonovum)) (pdf)

Additional comments from Germany, Slovak Republic, Croatia and UK.

Discussions

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Staten-Generaal “Flanders Geoland”
General meeting with key decision makers in Flanders (Belgium). This meeting is organised to develop a strategy for the Flemish Spatial Data Infrastructure. Several speakers are invited: Kurt Pierloot (  ), Frieda Brepoels (European Parliamentarian), Dorine Burmanje (Kadaster, The Netherlands), Geert Bouckaert (KU Leuven), Eric Stroobants (Secretary-General of Flemish Government). In addition, a panel discussion is organised with key stakeholders and experts about the Flemish SDI: Ingrid Vanden Berghe (IGN), Hans Dufourmont (EC JRC), Lodewijk De Witte (Province Flemish-Brabant), Frank Mostaert (Steering committee GIS-Flanders) 
 
17:30  Reception 

30 April 2009

9:00     Welcome

9:05     Presentations of strategy examples from a technological perspective
            (E-government facilities, Geostandards) (pdf)

Presentations from:

• Germany (Andreas von Dömming (BKG - Coordination Office SDI)) (pdf)
• Croatia (Sanja Zekusic, State Geodetic Administration) (pdf)
• Slovak Republic (Katarina Leitmannova, Stefan Moyzes (SKGeodesy)) (pdf)

Additional comments from Belgium/Flanders, Bulgaria, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and UK.           

           Discussions

10:30   Coffee break

11:00   Presentations of strategy examples from an economic perspective
            (Funding, Pricing)

Presentations from:

• UK (Peter Woodsford (Snowflake Software and 1Spatial)) (pdf)
• EU (Roger Longhorn (Info-Dynamics Research Associates)) (pdf)

Additional comments from Belgium/Flanders, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland and The Netherlands

          Discussions

12:30   Strategy comments from an legal perspective from Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Slovak Republic, Sweden, Switzerland, The Netherlands and the UK (Privacy, liability, type of arrangements)

Discussions

13:00   Lunch

14:00   Group discussion about the inventory and analysis of the strategies (pdf) 

15:00   Plenary discussion about the inventory and analysis of the strategies

15:15   Coffee break

15:30   Plenary discussion  “Research agenda””

16:00   Steps to establish INSPIRE Atlas of implementation methods
            (Objective, planning, task division) (pdf)

16:30   Closure

Workshop preparation

As preparation for the EuroSDR-project INSPIRE Atlas of Implementation methods, it would be great if the workshop participants could answer the following questions (Deadline 15 April):

- Which organisations of your country are the most active in complying to INSPIRE?
- Which professional sector in your country has been the most influential in the preparation to implement INSPIRE? 
- Which initiatives/changes to cope with INSPIRE have been completed?
- Which initiatives to cope/comply with INSPIRE are still on hold?
- Which articles of the INSPIRE directive cause you the biggest headaches, and why?
- Which laws and/or regulations are adapted as a direct result of INSPIRE?
- Which organisations have adapted their internal structures and activities in order to cope with INSPIRE?
- Which changes in operational management have you enforced or observed as a direct result of INSPIRE?
- Which changes in maintenance management have you enforced or observed as a direct result of INSPIRE?
- Which policy is applied to the investment management of INSPIRE?
- Where do you think are still ineffective structures and/or operations when dealing with spatial data?
- Which uncertainties are you still coping with?
- What is the main success that the introduction of INSPIRE has achieved so far?
- What key strategy do you recommend for the implementation of INSPIRE?

The answers form the basis for the selection of the presentations and may be send to Dr. Joep Crompvoets (joep.crompvoets@soc.kuleuven.be).

Practical information

Registration fee: There is no participation fee but registration is required.

Date: Wednesday the 29th of April 2009 from 9 a.m until 12.30 p.m. and Thursday the 30rd of April 2009 from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m.

Venue: Room Ockeghem - Academy – Hertogstraat 1 – 1000 Brussel (directions-map pdf)

Registration: online

So far participants from Sweden, The Netherlands, Belgium, UK and Switzerland have been registered.

Accomodation

Due to an international congres in Brussels, all hotels are fully booked. We have booked rooms in Hotel Marlon in Leuven. The prices are 75 euro pp per night. The railway station is located in front of the hotel. Here you can take a train to Brussels. This trip takes about 20 minutes.

You need to book a room yourself via email: hotelmalon@gmail.com Please mention the username: ngi and password: leuven

Organisation committee

Praktische inlichtingen: secretariaat Instituut voor de Overheid,  Anneke Heylen
Parkstraat 45 - bus 3609, 3000 Leuven, Fax: 016 32 32 67, Tel: 016 32 31  80, io@soc.kuleuven.be