An European Community of SMEs built on Environmental Digital Content and Languages

SmeSpire’s purpose is to encourage and enable the participation of SMEs in the mechanisms of harmonisingand making large scale environmental content available.  smeSpire will:

1. assess market potential for SMEs in relation to INSPIRE as an integral component of the Digital Agenda forEurope, describing obstacles for SMEs to enter this market in terms of knowledge gaps;
2. collate, translate and exploit a Best Practice Catalogue in the management of environmental content;
3. develop a multilingual package to train environmental data analysts in the maintenance and exploitation ofenvironmental data commons, and;
4. create a network capable of transferring result-driven knowledge throughout Europe with research centres,environmental agencies, progressive technology providers and digital content providers.smeSpire offers the Commission an early integration of results for relevant programmes (ISA) directly into theknowledge base of geo-ICT SMEs.