The kick-off meeting of the H2020 project ENVRI-FAIR took place in Prague, from 14 to 16 January 2019. The meeting officially marked the beginning of the project activities starting from its management strategy and tools, its implementation process and risk management.

1st Working Meeting LifeWatch-ERIC Data Centres

The LifeWatch-ERIC Service Centre organised its 1st Metadata, Controlled Vocabularies and Ontologies Working Meeting in Lecce, from 12 to 13 November 2018.

Moving from existing approaches implemented in the National Nodes, the meeting wants to set a roadmap for a common strategy on metadata, thesauri and ontologies within the LifeWatch-ERIC community and in accordance with the FAIR principles.

Each LifeWatch National Node is invited to present an annual report review of their activities in 2017-2018.

This course focused on integrated coastal zone management, in the sense that it needs to take on board the ecological, environmental, social and economic aspects of managing a coastal area or zone. The course provides an overview and hands approach on GIS applications necessary towards integrated coastal zone management including the data acquisition, processing, analysis and interpretation of spatial data. Participants developed and built their own case study and made a short presentation at the end of the training course.

Meeting about the European Tracking Network (ETN) in the framework of ATLANTOS and LifeWatch, to formalize the network.

On February 15th 2013, several demo sessions at the VLIZ Marine Scientist Day in Bruges (Belgium) highlighted different aspects of the Flemish LifeWatch infrastructure, and its related components: