eENVplus, eEnvironmental services for advanced applications within INSPIRE.

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eENVplus is a Pilot Type A project, funded by European Union under the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme – Information and Communication Technologies Policy Support Programme (CIP-ICT-PSP) grant No. 325232.
The eENVplus project aims to unlock huge amounts of environmental data which is managed by the involved national/regional environment agencies and other public and private environmental stakeholders through the integration and harmonisation of existing services. This data is not only collected to answer reporting obligations on the environment to the European Union, but also to support national and local policies and actions.
The project does not design new services but rather, starting from the results of previous European experiences (funded projects, good practices, EU/national/local experiences) it integrates existing infrastructure into an operational framework able to overcome cross-border and languages barriers. eENVplus provides not only the ICT infrastructure but also the description and the support to make this infrastructure operational and profitable through the provision of an organisational model and a tutored training framework.

It is intended to implement 9 environmental scenarios in 10 pilots (BE, CZ, EL, FR, HU, IS, IT, PT, SI, SK), in order to offer the actual eENVplus outcomes implementation in a variety of different situations and user needs. The pilots with their scenarios will allow to better streamline the tools available to the project into the main flow of INSPIRE compliance, with evident implications on interoperability among applications, existing or planned.
eENVplus interoperable infrastructure provides Member States and Geographic Information Communities with:

  • A comprehensive, open and scalable infrastructure able to integrate existing infrastructures according to the INSPIRE requirements, open standards and interoperable innovative services;
  • A common Environment Thesaurus Framework, supporting the integration of existing thesauri relevant for the environmental sector via Linked Data and providing added-value services for its integration and exploitation in pilot applications
  • A comprehensive tool-kit with procedures for data harmonisation and validation supporting Members States during INSPIRE implementation with guidelines and examples;
  • A set of innovative on-line added value interoperable services aiming to facilitate the development of innovative environmental applications;
  • A Training Framework to support, with eLearning tools, the development of the necessary capacities and knowledge to implement INSPIRE and to develop a SEIS and to keep this new adapted infrastructure operational.

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