The Regional Workshop on Information and Communication for Improving Environmental Knowledge and Reporting in the Mediterranean webpage

The web page dedicated to the Regional Workshop on Information and Communication for Improving Environmental Knowledge and Reporting in the Mediterranean, held in Rome on the 30th and 31st October 2006 is now available through the website of the SMAP RMSU.

• Welcome speech, Ms Maria Dalla Costa, APAT

• Main objectives of the workshop, Ms Tea Törnroos, SMAP/RMSU coordinator

• SMAP Programme evaluation outcomes and main recommendations, Mr Jean Marc Riegel, EC/EuropeAid

• MEDSTAT Information System, a platform in support to Euro-Mediterranean Statistical Cooperation, Mr Francisco Fernandez Fernandez, EC/EUROSTAT

• SMAP III objectives, expected impacts at country and regional levels, Mr Javier Menendez Bonilla, EC Delegation for Egypt 

• SMAP Clearing House- Lessons learned and actions to ensure its sustainability and continuity at national and regional level, Mr Alessandro Candeloro, SMAP RMSU Info Manager

• Presentations by the national CH partners:

• Algeria,  Mr Abderrahmane Laleg, expert & Mr Bachir Slimani, ONEDD
• Egypt, Mr Mohamed Rafaat, EEAA
• Jordan, Mr Khalid Al Majali, MoE & Mr Ziyad Alawneh, LHAP
• Israel, Ms Shoshana Gabbay, expert & Ms Ronnie Ginat-Cohen, MoE
• Morocco, Ms Saida Bourous & Mr Lofti El Mgjazli, ONEM-MATEE
• Syria, Mr Shaka Al Souleman, Ms Sawsan Al Attrash, CGEA
• Tunisia, Mr Mohamed Fourti & Mr Nouri Soussi, OTED
• Turkey, Ms Tulin Keskin, expert & Ms Gulsun Yesilhuyuk, MLAF
• Lebanon, Ms Viviane Sassine, MoE

• Comments by Mr Paolo Meozzi, EEA  & Mr  Michal Smolka, MAP/UNEP- INFO/RAC

• Discussion

• The Regional Solid Waste Management Project in METAP Maghreb and Mashreq Countries Information System (SMAP II), Mr Rachid Nafti, ANPE

• Les systèmes d’information sur l’environnement entre opportunités techniques et contraintes institutionnelles, Ms Ouafa Sahli, OSS

• Tools and mechanisms for exchanging information and knowledge: WWF MedPO experience, Ms Alessandra Pomé, WWF Mediterranean Programme Office

• Questions and discussion

• SINAnet experience (National Information System for Sharing Environmental Spatial Data/Information) within the Eionet network, Mr Nico Bonora, APAT (Italy)

• Access to environmental information – Environmental Information System, Ms Gulsun Yesilhuyuk, MOEF (Turkey) 

• Questions and discussion

• EEA and Eionet reporting future programmes in the future programmes in the Mediterranean, Mr. David Stanners, EEA
  

• Environment sector: experiences and lessons learned, actual orientations and implementing issues of the project, Ms Cécile Roddier-Quefelec, MEDSTAT

• Stratégie d’information et de communication dans les pays méditerranéens et principaux résultats, Ms Florence Pintus, UNEP/MAP Blue Plan/CAR

• Networking and tools used for dissemination of project results and data exchanges, Mr Rizk Chabel, SMAP III TA
  

• Actions in the SMAP III MAP/METAP project contributing to increase environmental knowledge and lessons learned from the ICZM protocol process, Mr Ivica Trumbic, UNEP/MAP PAP/RAC

• Lessons learned from EMWIS on sharing water information and knowledge in the Mediterranean area, Mr Eric Mino, MEDA Water/ EMWIS 

• Regional E-environment practices: Activities and experiences of the environmental information management at regional level, Mr Hossam Allam, CEDARE

• INFO-MAP: concepts, challenges and current state, Mr Roman Pryjomko, UNEP/MAP INFO/RAC

• Questions and discussion