UNESCO / IOC Project Office for IODE
Wandelaarkaai 7
8400 Oostende
Belgium
| 1. | OPENING OF THE MEETING |
| 1.1. | Introduction of participants |
| 1.2. | Adoption of the agenda |
| 1.3. | Local information |
| 2. | FORMAL LAUNCH OF FUST FUNDED OCEAN INFOHUB PROJECT |
| 2.1. | Representative of EWI-Flanders |
| 2.2. | Representative of IOC/UNESCO |
| 2.3. | Representative of IOC/IODE |
| 3. | PRESENTATION OF THE IOC INFOHUB |
| 3.1. | Putting Ocean InfoHub in context: CHM/TMT, BBNJ,... |
| 3.2. | The Ocean InfoHub: Introduction |
| 4. | THE IOC OCEAN INFOHUB PARTNERSHIP |
| 4.1. | Global Partners |
| 4.1.1. | IODE |
| 4.1.2. | Other IOC Programmes |
| 4.1.2.1. | Ocean Sciences |
| 4.1.2.2. | Marine Policy and Regional Coordination |
| 4.1.2.3. | Tsunami Unit |
| 4.1.2.4. | GOOS |
| 4.1.3. | EurOcean |
| 4.1.4. | EMODNET |
| 4.1.5. | POGO |
| 4.1.6. | University of Ghent: marinetraining.eu |
| 4.2. | Regional Partners |
| 4.2.1. | WIOMSA |
| 4.2.2. | The Pacific Community |
| 4.2.3. | INVEMAR - Caribbean Marine Atlas |
| 4.3. | Potential new Partners |
| 4.3.1. | Abidjan Convention (tbc) |
| 4.3.2. | GEF LMEs |
| 4.3.3. | Other Flemish institutions |
| 5. | REGIONAL NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR OCEAN DATA AND INFORMATION AT THE REGIONAL LEVEL |
| 5.1. | Africa (IOCAFRICA) |
| 5.2. | Caribbean (IOCARIBE) |
| 5.3. | Pacific SIDS |
| 6. | IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY |
| 6.1. | The Ocean InfoHub network |
| 6.1.1. | Global Hub |
| 6.1.2. | Regional Nodes |
| 6.1.3. | Thematic Nodes |
| 6.2. | Matchmaking services |
| 6.3. | Content included in, and provided by the Ocean InfoHub |
| 6.4. | The Ocean InfoHub and IOC Ocean Data and Information System (ODIS) |
| 7. | FOCUSING OCEAN INFOHUB ON SERVING REGIONAL NEEDS |
| 7.1. | Regional stakeholder workshops |
| 7.2. | Development of Regional work plans |
| 7.3. | Coordination of work in the regions (who does what) |
| 8. | PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION: WORK PACKAGES |
| 8.1. | Work Package 1: project management, coordination and evaluation |
| 8.2. | Work Package 2: technology development |
| 8.3. | Work Package 3: establishment and initial support of the global hub and regional nodes |
| 8.4. | Work Package 4: training and capacity development of the nodes |
| 8.5. | Work Package 5: communication, user marketing and feedback |
| 8.6. | Administrative procedures |
| 9. | TIMELINE AND NEXT STEPS |
| 10. | ELECTION OF (CO-)CHAIR(S) OF THE STEERING GROUP AND WORK PACKAGE LEADS |
| 11. | CLOSING OF THE MEETING |