6th COBWEB Consortium Meeting

25/26 Feb, 2016,Technische Universität Dresden (TUD),

Germany.

Chris Higgins,Project Coordinator.

chris.higgins@ed.ac.uk

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