Ecoinformatics in « ICT for Sustainable Growth » Prepared by: Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Head of Unit ICT for Sustainable Growth, DG Information Society.

Ecoinformatics in « ICT for Sustainable Growth »

Prepared by: Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Head of Unit ICT for Sustainable Growth,

DG Information Society and Media, European CommissionTalk given by P. Haastrup, European Commission, JRC

Ecoinformatics 2008

OverviewOverview

ICT for Sustainable Growth:

• … means

• Domains of activity

• Community Instruments• Reasearch (FPs)• Deployment (CIP: ICT PSP)

• Conclusion

ICT for Sustainable Growth means...ICT for Sustainable Growth means...

EnvironmentalManagement

Disaster and RiskManagement

Energy Efficiency

ICT for Sustainable urban development

EU Sustainable Development Strategy and the EU Lisbon Strategy

Research and Development + Competitiveness and Innovation funding programmes

ICT is part of the problem … … and part of the solution

• ICT should not only reduce its own footprint…

• ICT can also help to reduce the footprint of all other sectors/activities• Sustainable consumption and production

• Better monitoring and management of the environment

• Better preparedness, mitigation, adaptation to climate change, environmental threats, and disasters

• Extension of independent living, improved healthcare systems, Clean mobility,

• Moreover, by increasing awareness, it will be instrumental to change consumers’ behaviour

Domain of activity – 1ICT for Energy efficiency

Priority areas:

• ICT in the Energy Mix and Security of Supply

• ICT for better Energy Efficiency• Distributed Generation• Buildings and Homes• Industrial and Business processes

• Environmental/ climate impact

• Vision of ICT contributing to a cleaner, safer and healthier global environment

• Focus on unsustainable trends in Europe:• Degraded environment• Exposure to diverse pollutants• Exposure to ever more frequent disasters

• Targets a consolidated European capacity of mastering, predicting and managing the environment and its resources, making use of ICT that interoperate in a Single Information Space for the Environment in Europe (SISE)

• Urban environment earmarked as a possible priority test bed

Domain of activity - 2ICT for Environmental Sustainability

• INSPIREINSPIREEC Directive establishing an infrastructure EC Directive establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Communityfor spatial information in the Community

• GMESGMESEC-ESA initiative for the Global Monitoring EC-ESA initiative for the Global Monitoring of the Environment and Securityof the Environment and Security

• GEOGEORecent intergovernmental partnership Recent intergovernmental partnership of 70 Nations to build GEOSS, the Global of 70 Nations to build GEOSS, the Global Earth Observation System of SystemsEarth Observation System of Systems

Contributing technical interoperability to ongoing policy initiatives

Domain of activity - 3 ICT* for Disaster & Emergency Management

Response•Dispatching of resources•Emergency telecom•Situational awareness•Command control coordination•Information dissemination•Emergency healthcare

Disaster Management CyclePrevention and Mitigation•Hazard prediction and modeling•Risk assessment and mapping•Spatial Planning•Structural & non structural measures•Public Awareness & Education..

Preparedness •Scenarios development•Emergency Planning•Training

Alert•Real time monitoring & forecasting•Early warning•Secure &dependable telecom•Scenario identification• all media alarm

Post Disaster•Lessons learnt •Scenario update•Socio-economic and environmental impact assessment•Spatial (re)planning

Recovery•Early damage assessment•Re-establishing life-lines transport &communication infrastructure

Sustainable growthSustainable growthA panoply of converging instrumentsA panoply of converging instruments

• To devise and implement adequate European policies

• To support RTD on next generation of ICTs contributing to sustainable growth

• To raise awareness and deploy ICT-based solutions for environmental sustainability

AN OVERALL STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY ACTION

Building upon FP6 researchBuilding upon FP6 researchin ICT for Disaster Management in ICT for Disaster Management

Three calls in 2003, 2005 and 2006

• In-situ monitoring and smart sensor networks• Risk information infrastructure and generic services• Public safety communication, alert systems and rapidly

deployable emergency telecommunications systems• Emergency management and rescue operations• Distributed tsunami early warning and

alert system (Europe & Indian Ocean)• Humanitarian demining

Projects will deliver in 2007-2010

FP6 project clusters FP6 project clusters

EU-FIREAcoustic sensorEU-FIRE

Acoustic sensor

OASISOperations, C3

OASISOperations, C3

ORCHESTRAArchitecture ontologies

ORCHESTRAArchitecture ontologies

CHORISTemergency

communications

CHORISTemergency

communications

WINInformation

services

WINInformation

services

SANYIn-situ monitoring

SANYIn-situ monitoring

OSIRIScrisis monitoring

OSIRIScrisis monitoring

WISECOMsatcom

WISECOMsatcom

U2010PSC& IPv6U2010

PSC& IPv6

DyvineVisual sensorsDyvine

Visual sensors

InterRiskMarine risks

InterRiskMarine risks

WINSOCadvanced sensorsWINSOC

advanced sensors

SCIERSensor fusionSCIER

Sensor fusion

STARRSSearch& rescueSTARRS

Search& rescue

StreamHumanitarian Stream

Humanitarian

Sensor network basedMONITORING SYSTEMS

INFORMATION SYSTEMS

EMERGENY AND RISK TELECOM

Command ControlCoordination

EUROPCOMUWB

EUROPCOMUWB

MITRAtransportMITRA

transport

INTAMAPAutomated mapping INTAMAP

Automated mapping

ERMAAlert

ERMAAlert

EuritrackIllicit traffickingEuritrack

Illicit trafficking

WarmerWater monitoringWarmer

Water monitoring

DEWSTsunami

DEWSTsunami

NARTUSPublic Safety Forum

NARTUSPublic Safety Forum

ICT for Environmental ManagementICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome I

a) Collaborative systems for environmental management• From monitoring to reporting, management, alert and response• Enhanced capacity to assess population exposure and health risk• Generic solutions with typical validation focus on water and air• Visionary concepts, as well as evolutionary integrated systems

Funding schemes: IP and STREPS

WORK

PROGRAMME

2007-2008

ICT for Environmental Management Expected Outcome II

b) Coordination and Support Actions• Adoption of common open architectures

(INSPIRE, GMES, GEOSS)• ICT research for risk reduction and

disaster and emergency management• Building the European Research Area in

the field of ICT for environmental sustainability

e) Specific International Cooperation Action

• ICT for environmental disaster reduction and management• Development and interoperability of

rapidly deployable ICT-based solutions • Assessment of natural hazards

and communities vulnerability• For public warnings and

emergency management

Funding scheme: CSA

Funding schemes: STREP/SICA, CSA

WORK

PROGRAMME

2007-2008

Towards future research needsTowards future research needs

Flexible chaining of distributed environmental services• Methods and protocols for service discovery and chaining• Automatic data and services quality control• Semantics and ontology services• Chaining of models, predictive tools• On-demand distributed geo-processing• Interactive, Web-based 3D analysis and visualisation tools

Smart wireless monitoring networks• Sensor Web• Portable sensors• Massive deployment of low cost miniaturised sensors

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Conclusion Conclusion

Cooperation in Eco-informatics

• Very ambitious goals and challenges

• Need to ensure interoperability worldwide

• Common research topics

• Exchange of best practices

• Supporting links between “project clusters”

• Standardisation, SDI

• ….

WG Eco-informatics

Further Information & ContactFurther Information & Contact

• DG INFSO Unit “ICT for Sustainable Growth”Email: INFSO–[email protected]://ec.europa.eu/information-society/activities/sustainable-growth

• Home page of the i2010 initiative:http://ec.europa.eu/information-society/eeurope/i2010/index-en.htm

• FP7 ICT• home page on CORDIS (including the Work Programme 2007-2008)http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/• Registration as an expert:https://cordis.europa.eu/emmfp7/index.cfm?fuseaction=wel.welcome

• CIP - Competitveness and Innovation Programmehttp://intra.infso.cec.eu.int/index.htm?url=/ictc/