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Local and Regional Authorities Support Initiative

Local and regional authorities play a central role in ensuring the socio-economic prosperity of their regions. Satellite information and services support efficient decision-making, integrated planning and offer innovative tools for boosting regional development. Eurisy helps local and regional authorities make the most of satellite services.

The Local and Regional Authorities Support Initiative consists of:

Information events: good practice exchanges; insights into new solutions based on satellite services
Eurisy case-studies: operational support to local and regional authorities’ projects, through analysis and recommendations on opportunities of using satellite services to attain objectives
Free access to a network of multidisciplinary experts
Bottom-up feedback to European and national decision-makers on support for local and regional authorities

Events

Scoping exercise

Sustainable agriculture in Flevoland: the added-value of geospatial services

24 June 2013, Lelystad, Netherlands

This workshop, organised in the framework of the INTERREG project "Regions4GreenGrowth", will bring together stakeholder organisations from the Province of Flevoland, pioneering users of geospatial services from other regional organisations working in agriculture, as well as experts in relevant geospatial services, to discuss how Flevoland can make the most of innovative geospatial solutions.

Together, they will:

1. analyse Flevoland’s stakeholders’ needs and challenges, and define potential synergies

2. learn from the experience of their peers, who use geospatial services operationally

3. discuss the transferability of such successful experiences in practice

4. highlight needs which are not currently covered by existing solutions

The main focus of the exercise will be on practical, operational solutions that have made a difference for farmers and farming organisations, rather than the technology in itself, or R&D activities.

Participation is on invitation only.

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Water management and climate change: innovative solutions to enhance cross-border collaboration

7 June 2013

The first meeting of the Task Force Water Governance, the former partners of the INTERREG IVC FLOOD-WISE project, was successfully held on the 4th of June in the European Space Research and Technology Centre -ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands), with the participation of around 30 people interested in the theme of trans-border collaboration for efficient water management.

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Resilient Cities 2013 - 4th Global Forum on urban resilience and adaptation

31 May - 2 June, Bonn, Germany

Eurisy is participating to this forum organised by ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability by contributing a good practice in the use of an integrated solution in the city of Tarascon, France. Tarascon and the Regional Civil Protection Unit, in cooperation with local stakeholders, have built a Crisis Management Platform relying on latest technologies, including Earth Observation, navigation and communications by satellite to provide an operational, affordable, user-friendly solution for the local stakeholders to share knowledge and better coordinate when managing crises.

Tarascon is part of the European Network of Living Labs “Live with Risk” and a privileged actor in United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) “Making Cities Resilient” campaign.

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Conference report

The diffusion of satellite applications needs to be more user-driven

24 April 2013

On 23 April in Brussels was held the workshop ‘Risk and environment management: the added value of satellite applications’, hosted by the Committee of the Regions, and organisedisy in cooperation with the GEONetCab, GEO Network for Capacity Building, an FP7 project consortium.

Decision-makers and professionals from end-user organisations – public administrations such as the Committee of the Regions, the Mazovia Region, the Lake Garda Community, the City of Nice, Krkonose (the Czech National Park) and the Norfolk County Council – all reaffirmed a keen interest in keeping abreast with innovation as a means to promote sustainable development. Most of them presented innovative practices in the implementation and use of satellite applications to carry out their mission – some closer to an operational stage than the others.

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Good Practices

Satellite success stories

Pioneering local and regional authorities already use satellite information and services in a variety of fields...

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Flood Management: Regional Cross-border Cooperation in the Saar-Mosel River Basin

The challenge: Lorraine (FR), Rhineland-Palatinate (DE), Wallonia (BE) and Luxembourg needed to coordinate their management of flood and pollution risks, while complying with the European Water Framework Directive.

Water Management in Campania

The challenge: the Agriculture Dpt. of the Campania Region observed that farmers' subjective and empirical assessment of irrigation needs led to an excessive use of water sources compared to the maximum values needed to guarantee optimal yield.

Piedmont Bridges Digital Divide, Helps Boost Tourism

The challenge: A long-term digital divide in the province meant that 20% of its population throughout 68% of its territory, especially in Alpine regions, could not benefit from broadband internet.

Giving Tourism a Boost in North Tipperary, Ireland

”Nothing came up when I searched for a restaurant in North Tipperary on my GPS. I was sent to Limerick!” This anecdotal but significant experience prompted Bernie Leonard, Shannon Development Tourism Officer for North Tipperary & Offaly, to do something about making it easier for tourists to enjoy County Tipperary. “We wanted to get that extra people to the Centre of Ireland” she says.

City of Potsdam: Monitoring urban green volume and sustainability

The Department for Environmental Monitoring uses satellite images to monitor the effects of urbanisation on the evolution of natural habitats and soil sealing.

Potsdam is the capital city of the German federal state of Brandenburg and home to over 155.000 inhabitants and UNESCO – world heritage site. Bordering on Berlin, the city is part of the metropolitan region Berlin-Brandenburg that is characterised by highly urbanised areas (Berlin and Potsdam) surrounded by rural, natural landscapes.

The City of Dormagen enhances civic e-participation using a complaint management system involving GPS

Dormagen is a German town of about 60 000 inhabitants living in the 16 districts of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The Municipality of Dormagen is responsible for ensuring the quality of the urban environment and of the public infrastructure (roads, bus stops etc).

“Rent and Share” Programme: Vilnius uses GPS to monitor electric bikes

Vilnius has a population of approximately 560 000 inhabitants, half of whom use the city’s public transportation system on a regular basis.

In order to address urban congestion issues and reduce traffic levels in the city centre and the Old Town, included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1994, the municipality of Vilnius decided to offer environmental friendly alternatives to move around the city.

Prague: promoting public transport using satnav applications

Prague created an interactive map collecting and making available accurate and reliable information on all means of public transport in the city.

City of Porto: promoting tourism through satnav applications

The Tourist Department of Porto developed mobile tourist guides using satellite navigation to geo-localise points of interest and make it easier to tourists to discover them autonomously.

Autolib’: short-distance electric car rental network for the Paris Region

Paris and the Île-de-France Region manage an electric vehicle rental service using an innovative satnav application

Lombardy Region: hazardous waste management using satnav

The Italian Lombardy Region experiments an advanced tracking system to monitor hazardous waste transnational transport.

Alsace Region, France: Protecting the European hamster from extinction

The Regional Directorate for Environment Planning and Housing of Alsace uses geo-information to monitor the quality of the hamster’s vital habitats in the region.

DREAL Alsace

Under the authority of the prefect of the region, the Alsace Regional Directorate for Environment, Planning and Housing (DREAL) is responsible for developing and implementing national policies in the areas of preservation of natural heritage and biodiversity, water management, construction, urban planning, housing, pollution and risk prevention, transport, climate and energy.

Western Cape: Improve water use efficiency on vineyards and deciduous fruits orchards

Water is a critical resource in South Africa, therefore farmers are keen to use irrigation water sparingly. Using satellite-based information, the Western Cape Department of Agriculture provides to farmers adequate information on the crop irrigation, growth and nutrient status, demonstrating the benefits of integrated satellite technologies for farm management.

Good practices

Satellite success stories

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Case Studies

Case-studies offer operational support to local and regional authorities.

They consist of a personalised analysis and diagnosis of the local authority's needs and objectives, seen in the local context. On this basis, a working group of multi-disciplinary experts make recommendations on opportunities to use relevant and cost-effective solutions based on satellite services, as well on implementation.

The originality of Eurisy’s case-studies resides in the lack of technology push. Technology is considered solely in terms of the relevance of the solution it offers the user, its cost and benefits.

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Case-studies offer operational support to local and regional authorities.

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