ENWAP
Newsletter

Volume 1 Issue 1 August 1997

Welcome to the 1st ENWAP (ENvironment telematics for Water and Air Pollution management) Newsletter of 1997 provided by the ENWAP Expert Group to present our new activity

ENWAP - USER FORUM

The ENWAP (ENvironment telematics for Water Air Pollution  management) -User Forum is a specific activity of the ANIMATE project, a support action in the Environment Sector of the Telematics Applications Programme. It aims to disseminate the results of Environment Telematics projects (1994-1998) and other related projects in EU and CEE countries.
The user forum activity  is designed to inform a wide audience of potential users (notably non participants in EU Environment Telematics projects) on developments and applications coming from the Environment Telematics Projects (TAP EN).
The objectives of the user forum focuses on exchange of information on issues such as common user requirements, Best Practices in air and water pollution management, and to facilitate the exchange of  know-how and experience between actors from EU and CEE countries on those specific environmental issues.
The user forum platform eases the uptake of the TAP EN 'end-products' and  foster future implementation of 'end-products'.  The results of TAP EN projects and of ENWAP expert group will be presented in a  Conference, exploring the opportunities for wide exploitation with new clusters of users and their requirements.
The results of  such activities will indicate innovative strategies and tools for local/regional administrations to monitor the quality of the environment, and to inform the citizen of the state and evolution of the environment. The ENWAP user forum activity includes:  

The ENWAP-EG

The ENWAP Expert Group (EG) facilitates the implementation of  the overall objectives of ENWAP user forum activity. The group consists of a number of experts (10-12) who represent users identified as potentially interested on the EN project 'end-products', in the domain of air and water pollution management. Thus behind each expert a broad network of users are represented from the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe countries such as : national and  regional representatives, local authorities, research institutes, NGO's organisations.
CEE countries such as Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland and Estonia are represented in the ENWAP EG.
The general objective of the Expert Group is to ensure that the "end- products" being developed by environment telematics demonstration projects and other related projects attract interest of potential new users, is of wide applicability and  transferable to other countries and regions (in the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe).
The transferability of these results to other  sites will be a crucial topic for the whole activity.

Therefore, specific tasks will be carried by the Expert Group, which will help to achieve the ENWAP objectives:

  1. identification and analysis of TAP EN demonstration projects  or related projects offering relevant applications, systems and sub-systems  in air and water pollution management and easily transferable to other sites;
  2. identification of user requirements of external user groups derived from various consultation processes;
  3. identification of potential constraints or barriers (technical, legal, organisational) which may exist when transferring results of  TAP-EN projects to other countries. Activities will include:
    - definition of common user requirements,
    - users identification
    - analysis of user needs according to technical, economical and social requirements.
    - definition of initial system specifications and a basic list of common technical and functional requirements;
  4. elaboration of strategy and recommendations to overcome constraints identifications (from arising needs of external user communities;
  5. setting up a mechanism enabling the provision of feedback from the user forum results to policy makers, industry and RT&D in the context of future requirements and options for the Environment Telematics Programme
 

The ENWAP EG meetings

Already two meetings of the ENWAP Expert Group have been taken place on  the 23rd of May and on the 28th of July in Brussels.
The first meeting (kick-off meeting) was setting the scene of the ENWAP Expert Group ensuring their commitment for the ENWAP user forum activity.
The second meeting, in July, has already tackled some of the main subjects outlined in the ENWAP EG tasks.
At the meetings, speakers from TAP-EN projects and from the European Commission were also invited to provide inputs and information related to the work of the ENWAP EG.
As results of these two meetings two working documents have been elaborated. They define a common structure for user typology as well as a standard structure to describe specific TAP-EN Demonstration Projects.
More EG meetings are planned in the future : two in 1997 and two meetings in 1998.
 

More information?

To enhance a more close discussion between the members of the ENWAP EG a common e-mail address has been established enwap@list.arttic.com
If you wish to have more information on the ENWAP activity or to establish some discussion with the Expert Group on the ENWAP objectives , please feel free to use the above mentioned e-mail address.
Information on the ENWAP activity may also be provided by the chairpersons and the rapporteur of the ENWAP EG.

Chairpersons are :

Mr. Nick Hodges from Leicester City Council ; fax : +44.116.255.7997
E-mail : nhodges@lccatc.demon.co.uk

and

Mr. Wolfgang Boch from the European Commission ,DG XIII
fax: +32.2.2962391
E-mail : wolfgang.boch@dg13.cec.be
 

The rapporteur is :

Mrs. Susanna Azzali,from ANIMATE
Fax : +31.317.424812
E-mail : s.azzali@sc.dlo.nl

In Annex 1 you will find the list of experts who participated in the ENWAP group.

ANNEX 1

 

List of the ENWAP Expert Group

EU countries

W. Boch, EC - DGXIII Telematics for Environment, BE, air/water International organisation
G.McGrogan, City of Sheffield, United Kingdom, air Public administration
A.Anglade/ F.Greaume, ADEME, France, water Public administration
H.Saarenmaa, EEA, DK, air/water International organisation
S.Azzali, SC-DLO / ANIMATE, NL, water Research
N.Hodges, Leicestershire City Council, United Kingdom, air Public administration
S.Haagenrund, NILU, N, air Research
J.Ribeiro da Costa, New University of Lisbon, Portugal, water Research
G.Ritter/J. Lorenz,  City of Munich, Germany, air Public administration

CEE countries

J.W.Lyklema,  TNO-MEP Central and Eastern Europe, Czech Republic/ NL, water/air Research
M.Korvits, Tallinn city government, Estonia, air Public administration
P. Stancikova, CEIT, Slovakia, water Industry
I. Roussev, REC, Hungary, air/water NGO
B. Kobus, WIOS, Poland, air Research
G. Pinter, VITUKI, Hungary, water Research