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News H2020 RMR sub-group meeting held on 30-31 March 2011, Copenahegn - Follow-up

Outcome of the second meeting of the Horizon 2020 Review, Monitoring and Research (RMR) Sub-Group held on 30-31 March 2011, Copenhagen, EEA premises:

The second RMR sub-group meeting gathered more than 40 experts from Southern Mediterranean and West Balkan partner countries. This second meeting of the sub-group, strongly embedded in both the H2020 initiative and the ENP Framework through the ENPI-SEIS project, allowed us to take stock of the most recent developments of the H2020 initiative, the results of the ENPI/SEIS consultation meeting held in November 2010, and also of the research projects and activities in the Mediterranean. Organised around breakout groups, the RMR sub-group discussed extensively how to develop a regular reporting process to monitor environmental progress "depolluting the Mediterranean" with a particular focus on the three H2020 priority issues of urban waste water, municipal waste and industrial emissions.
The meeting was very constructive and came out with several practical next steps. In particular this included the development of three pilots to help promote the testing and demonstration of what can be achieved measuring progress on the three priorities, and of the processes needed for this. The EEA will prepare a first outline of the pilots on the basis of the discussions and the UNEP/MAP indicator proposal. This will be circulated to the RMR sub-group during May for your comments and inputs. In parallel, participants were invited to provide any complementary ideas and reflections to the EEA in writing after the meeting (in Arabic, English or French). This applies equally to those of you who could not attend the meeting as either reflections on this letter or after studying the material presented (available on the H2020 portal – see below). The upcoming ENPI-SEIS country visits will allow us to deepen the discussions with you and to explore ways of enlarging engagement at a country level. This is seen to include in particular country level assessments to complement the pilots.
The presentations from the meeting together with the agenda and list of participants have already been uploaded at:
http://coordination.h2020.net/rmr/meetings/2011-03-30-31-copenhagen-2nd-rmr-sub-group-meeting

The second RMR sub-group meeting gathered more than 40 experts from Southern Mediterranean and West Balkan partner countries. This second meeting of the sub-group, strongly embedded in both the H2020 initiative and the ENP Framework through the ENPI-SEIS project, allowed us to take stock of the most recent developments of the H2020 initiative, the results of the ENPI/SEIS consultation meeting held in November 2010, and also of the research projects and activities in the Mediterranean. Organised around breakout groups, the RMR sub-group discussed extensively how to develop a regular reporting process to monitor environmental progress "depolluting the Mediterranean" with a particular focus on the three H2020 priority issues of urban waste water, municipal waste and industrial emissions.

The meeting was very constructive and came out with several practical next steps. In particular this included the development of three pilots to help promote the testing and demonstration of what can be achieved measuring progress on the three priorities, and of the processes needed for this. The EEA will prepare a first outline of the pilots on the basis of the discussions and the UNEP/MAP indicator proposal. This will be circulated to the RMR sub-group during May for your comments and inputs. In parallel, participants were invited to provide any complementary ideas and reflections to the EEA in writing after the meeting (in Arabic, English or French). This applies equally to those of you who could not attend the meeting as either reflections on this letter or after studying the material presented (available on the H2020 portal – see below). The upcoming ENPI-SEIS country visits will allow us to deepen the discussions with you and to explore ways of enlarging engagement at a country level. This is seen to include in particular country level assessments to complement the pilots.

The presentations from the meeting together with the agenda and list of participants have already been uploaded at: 

http://coordination.h2020.net/rmr/meetings/2011-03-30-31-copenhagen-2nd-rmr-sub-group-meeting

Contact information David Stanners Chairman H2020 RMR sub-group Head of International Cooperation, EEA: Kongens Nytorv 6 DK-1050 Copenhagen K (email: enpi-seis@eea.europa.eu ; david.stanners@eea.europa.eu)
Phone: +45.3336.7101 Fax: +45.3336.7197
News type Inbrief
File link http://coordination.h2020.net/rmr/meetings/2011-03-30-31-copenhagen-2nd-rmr-sub-group-meeting
File link local H2020_RMR_follow-up_letter_6_April_2011_final.pdf (PDF, 49 Kb)
Source of information EEA
Subject(s) ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Relation http://coordination.h2020.net
Geographical coverage Denmark,
News date 08/04/2011
Working language(s) ENGLISH
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