The intention of the project is to establish a seamless environmental information system to assist the Commission and EEA member countries in their attempts to improve the environment, move towards sustainability and integrate environmental policies with other sectors such as economic, social, transport, industry, energy and agriculture.
3 years from 01/01/2011 to 31/12/2013
General aims
The European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM) is an international consortium brought together to support the European Environment Agency (EEA) in its mission to deliver timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers and the public for the development and implementation of sound environmental policies in the European Union and other EEA member countries. The intention is to establish a seamless environmental information system to assist the Commission and EEA member countries in their attempts to improve the environment, move towards sustainability and integrate environmental policies with other sectors such as economic, social, transport, industry, energy and agriculture.
CMCC Role
As task leader, CMCC directs the work on:
- the development of content related to ocean variables for EoE (Eye-on-Earth)
- the general support to EEA GMES activities on further developing user requirements for the MSFD process.
With its expertise, CMCC also contributes to the activities on:
- assessment of developing pressure or impacts dimensions related to EEA indicators on Chl-a
- developing a European overview of the status of Europe’s marine environment on hydrographical changes
Activity
Pursuant to the ETC/ICM3 Implementation Plan 2013, the activities during 2013 are organized in the following “Projects” and “Tasks”:
- Project 1.4.1. – Inland water data Centre – WISE and data flows
- Project 1.4.2 – WISE infrastructure and systems – SEIS implementation
- Project 1.4.3 – Inland water indicators and assessments
- Project 1.5.1 – Marine and maritime data
- Project 1.5.2 – Marine Assessments and indicators
Project 6.0.9 – ETC management and coordination
Partners
- CENIA - Czech Environmental Information Agency
- BGR - Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
- CMCC - Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
- Deltares
- DHI – Water Environment Health
- Ecologic, Institute for International and European Environmental Policy
- HCMR - Hellenic Center for Marine Research
- ICES CIEM- The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea
- IFREMER - Institute Francais de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
- IMARES - Institute for Marine Resources and Ecosystem Studies
- INDRA – Indra Espacio S.A.
- INGV - Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia
- IWRS – Insitute for Water of the Republic of Slovenia
- JNCC – Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- NERC-CEH – Natural Environment Research Council – Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- NIVA - Norwegian Institute for Water Research
- NTUA - National Technical University of Athens
- SAHFOS – Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science
- SYKE - Suomen Ympäristökeskus
- SZIU – Szent Istvan University
- TC Vode – Thematic Center for Water Research, Studies and Projects development
- UBA - National Office for the Environment