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6th COBWEB Consortium Meeting
25/26 Feb, 2016,Technische Universität Dresden (TUD),
Germany.
Chris Higgins,Project Coordinator.
UEDIN,Plan for next 2 days and overall project status
Consortium meetings
Date Location
Nov 2012 Edinburgh
Apr 2013 Machynlleth
Nov 2013 Edinburgh
Nov 2014 Aberystwyth
May 2015 Chania
Feb 2016 Dresden
Sept 2016 Edinburgh
Agenda Morning Thurs 25th Feb
Afternoon Thurs 25th Feb
Morning Fri 26th Feb
Afternoon Fri 26th Feb
A wee reminder
COBWEB is an SME Targeted Collaborative project
Anyone recognise this text?
ENV.2012.6.5-1 (call text on Expected Impact)Empowerment of citizens and citizen's associations, allowing them to contribute to environmental governance processes in the domains of transparency, knowledgemanagement, accountability and responsiveness. The provision of models for decisionmakers, facilitating connections to governance and global policy objectives.
IMHO
Consolidate what we have. Increase TRL’s, integrate, fill the gaps, document, package, open source, enable SME’s, maximise impact
Set aside your own agendas; get outside your comfort zones, talk, cooperate, volunteer and help each other out, use the same tools, communicate, share
Objectives for this meeting
• Prioritisation and planning – German demonstrator– Greek demonstrator– Ongoing activity in Wales
• Status check• Information sharing• Start preparing a response to the 2nd review• Identify issues that need further attention• Engender greater collaboration• A.O.C.B.
Objectives STC – publish to SWE4CS
PublishingData
Milestones #1
• Month 40 of 48:– Only eight months left!
• Month 36: Milestone 4 (MS4):– Field testing of first demonstrator completed
• Month 41: Milestone 5 (MS5):– Greek and German demonstrators completed and
ready for testing in the field• Month 46: Milestone 6 (MS6):
– Field testing of Greek and German demonstrators completed
Milestones #2
2015 201635S
36O
37N
38D
39J
40F
41M
42A
43M
44J
45J
46A
47S
48O
MS4: Field testing of firstdemonstrator completed
MS5: Greek and German demonstrators completed and ready for testing in the field
MS6: Field testing of Greek and German demonstratorscompleted
Greek preparation Greek demonstrations
German preparation German demonstrations
Urdaibai BR / EAGLE?
General public Dyfi?
Ongoing activity Wales
Final Consortium meeting
Actions from previous meeting
1. ACTION: CH asked all those who are attending INSPIRE conference to please think about how we use INSPIRE/ GEOSS resources, eg, code lists, registries within COBWEB
2. ACTION: CH to help DL make contact with OPAL and establish connection.3. ACTION: Non-EU BR. Decision to be made at Project Board. GOH to respond to partners and
ask MOG to provide details about he proposed BR’s and supply any further details to Project Board as required
4. ACTION: Sensor map to be broadened and integrated by UCD, to include the rest of the consortium. CH suggested EM and CM may wish to visit PT and RG in Edinburgh
5. ACTION: LMB to organise a mid co-design meeting with all of the projects – approx. w/b 13 July6. ACTION: End Aug/Sept 2015. Closing event for the Co-Design Projects. LMB to open discussion
on this on basecamp7. ACTION: LMB convene meeting of co-design steering committee ASAP. Use of own handsets to
be on the agenda.8. ACTION: BDL to check European Location Framework project contacts, about the possibility of
getting Greek data.9. ACTION: EP to ask Greek Cadastre directly if we can cache their aerial imagery (this is the best
quality small scale data available). 10. ACTION: UPATRAS to write a scientific paper on the COBWEB and Natura 2000 related survey
in Greece11. ACTION: FX to submit the Greek poster (9-12 Oct 2014) to basecamp as part of the
dissemination activities.12. ACTION: FX to send through the newspapers and tweets to basecamp for dissemination.13. ACTION: TB to liaise with OIKOM/UPATRAS over the requirements for setting up a Greek
server. JW to facilitate
Overall Project status #1
• IMO, its clearly recognised we have done good work, though manage expectations– keep referring to components at different TRL’s
• Deliverables (44 in total):– 26 submitted and accepted, 2 with UEDIN for final
review and submission, 1 pending• Deeply into our “transferring to other countries
and see what happens” phase• Reporting Period 2 ended Oct 2015 (M36)
followed by review in Feb 2016• Now in Reporting Period 3 – the final leg!
Overall Project status #2
• Grant Agreement amendment completed Dec 2015, DoW now more closely matches reality1. OGC added as partner 142. WP6 restructured. No non-EU Biosphere Reserve3. Milestones dates altered to match reality4. Various deliverable related changes: due dates,
dissemination levels, some added, one dropped5. Realloaction of PM’s per partner per WP
Overall Project status #3
• Our overall concept of a citizen observatory pretty well understood– need for a Lite version identified
• Emphasis now shifting towards– Rolling out software and getting buy-in– Sustainability– Much more focus on policy– Greater focus on Greece, Germany and other
countries• Direction provided by Commission…
WGPolicy Applications
UEDINAdmin, Finance, Reporting
UEDINReport on project review
Feb 2016 Technical Review – Summary #1
• Focus - activities/impacts aimed at policy change (highlighted value of Welsh Gov on board)– EU level– Nationally
• Networks of civil/scientific groups• Natura 2000/Invasive Species explicitly noted• Packaging• Employ a “marketing expert” – budget shifts?• Stay concentrated on communicating results and
aiming at higher awareness
Feb 2016 Technical Review – Summary #2
• Exploitation• Identifying sources of funding for business
models• Meet potential customers, explore their interest
• Some content for specific partners– WG/UEDIN/UCD: recommendations changes to
deliverables– Oikom/UPATRAS: networks in Greece– Ecodyfi: 4WCBR– UNOTT: QA/QC
Feb 2016 Technical Review – Summary #3
• Some deliverable specific material • More like recommendations as all submitted
deliverables now accepted
• Whats not in review report?• What are we going to do about it?
TUD/SECDGerman demonstrator
OIKOM/UPATRASGreek demonstrator
Wales demonstrator activity 2015 summary
Open discussion regarding potential Wales demonstrator activity in 2016
Other demonstrator activity