EEA Neighbourhood project

1. EEA Neighbourhood project Tim Haigh • November 2005

2. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

3. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

4. EEA strategy 2004 – 2008 An extensive geographic Internet portal to regional and selected localised information will be made available. The objective is to enable the public to locate information about their surrounding environment. By simply entering postal codes or by using interactive maps and tools, people will be able to find information on environmental conditions (…). The system will contain a variety of historical and real-time data on environmental quality.

5. EEA strategy 2004 – 2008 An extensive geographic Internet portal to regional and selected localised information will be made available. The objective is to enable the public to locate information about their surrounding environment. By simply entering postal codes or by using interactive mapsand tools, people will be able to find information on environmental conditions (…). The system will contain a variety of historical and real-time data on environmental quality.

6. Warehouse views Portal The EEA Neighbourhood vision • Enable comparison over time and geography; • Make better use of available data; • Show the connection between the local situation and EU policy – benchmarking • Improve: visibility of, and access to information providers …for the public

7. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

8. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

9. 2005 – Feasibility work • Focus groups set-up; • Collect information on existing ‘local/neighbourhood’ type services; • Identify EEA role and links to countries; • Secure involvement of some countries; • Put initial GIS infrastructure in place; • Create prototype for flood risk.

10. Role of EEA EEA as a starting point… • European pictures; • Compare between locations; • Overcome discovery, knowledge and language barriers; • Compare to standards and EU policy; …not an end point.

11. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

12. Contents Origins and ambition of the Neighbourhood project Key elements from work in 2005 Priorities for 2006

13. 2006 work – general approach Take into account key constraints: • Data availability; • Other initiatives;. • Added value specific user scenarios; Stepwise construction with parallel thematic approaches: • Link to other initiatives; • Create partnerships; • Build on established capacities.

14. Neighbourhood approach - air quality project • Real-time ozone is a starting point; • European perspective with benchmarking to standards; • Health impacts; • Pollution episodes; • Start-point to navigate to other resources (portal); • Extend to wider air quality.