ENI SEIS II East
This project is funded by the European Union
Issue 2020/8, Summer 2020
Implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles and practices in the European Neighbourhood Policy East region to Eastern Partnership Countries
Regional View | Country Perspectives | Upcoming Events [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletters] Regional view
Editorial
Dear colleagues, partners and friends
This is the last issue of the ENI SEIS II East Newsletter, which marks the end of a long journey. During the past four and a half years we have had so many activities, events and experiences and adopted so many good practices under the umbrella of SEIS that the system is now strongly embedded and has found a prominent place in various national and regional partnerships and plans.
Read more [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/governance/project-documents/editorial]
© Marco Migliozzi, My City /EEA
Final project event
25 June 2020 | online
The final event of the ENI SEIS II East project marked the end of our four-year journey on implementing the SEIS principles in the Eastern Partnership region. We have many success stories that we can share and are grateful for the efforts of all the experts who contributed to this journey.
Read more [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/25-june-2020-final-event-eni-seis-ii-project]
© Charles Keddie
Latest project deliverables
Access to environmental information component
The purpose of this ENI SEIS II project component is to assess the status of e-government and open data readiness in the environmental field in the ENI East countries.
EEA intervention at UNECE [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/29-june-2020-eea-statement-for-the-24th-meeting-of-the-working-group-of-the-parties-to-the-aarhus-convention] | National maturity reports [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/access-to-environmental-information]
Air quality component
The objective of this activity was to increase the use and public accessibility of air quality measurement data in the ENI Eastern Partnership countries.
Air quality country briefings in English and Russian. [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/data/air]
Biodiversity component
The objective of this activity was to improve the capacity of the countries to report data on species and habitats under Resolution No. 4 (1996) [https://search.coe.int/bern-convention/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=09000016807469e7] and Resolution No. 6 (1998) [https://search.coe.int/bern-convention/Pages/result_details.aspx?ObjectId=0900001680746afc] of the Bern Convention.
Biodiversity briefing in English [https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/europe-protected-areas/protected-areas-in-the-eastern] and Russian [https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/biodiversity/europe-protected-areas/osobo-ohranyaemye-prirodnye-territorii-v].
The activity also aimed to improve the capacity of the countries to report data on species and habitats to the EEA’s Central Data Repository.
Corine Land Cover component
The focus of this activity was on land cover mapping and facilitating the access to, and use of, some spatial data required for SEIS implementation at national level. See the Digital package [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/events/project-events/digital-package-on-the-outcome-of-the-clc-pilot-project-potential-benefits-and-way-forward-in-eni-east-countries]
The results/deliverables of the Corine Land Cover component are publicly available on the Copernicus website [https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/GHSL/eni-clc-pilot]
Environmental indicators and assessments component
This project component addressed the challenge of organising the vast array of environmental statistics, data and information necessary for regular environmental assessments and reporting, based on the SEIS principles and practices.
Status of implementation of UNECE regional environmental indicators [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/countries]
Status of online availability of environmental assessment reports [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/countries]
State of the environment reports component
This component supported the regular process of reporting on the environment in the Eastern Partnership countries in accordance with international standards, incorporating EEA tools and Eionet best practices to produce environmental assessment reports.
Regional webinar [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/18-june-2020-regional-workshop-on-state-of-environment-report] | SOER country briefings [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/Indicators%20and%20Assessments]| R egional brochure and thematic leaflets on the environment in Eastern Partnership countries [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/Indicators%20and%20Assessments]
System of Environmental Economic Accounting
This component aimed to build capacity to produce environmental indicators and indicator-based assessments on the efficiency of natural capital and its depletion.
Explore th knowledge repository, assessments and an online too [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/seea-progress]l that visualises the environmental accounting progress in the partnership countries.
Water component
The water component of the project primarily aimed to support the countries to gradually develop and extend their national portal of water information systems in line with the SEIS principles.
The state of water report is currently being finalised and will soon be available at this link [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/data/water] in English and Russian.
Regionally comparable water indicators have been developed in line with the EEA methodology to underpin knowledge-based policy making.
© Sergey Plytkevich
Country perspectives
Case studies
Cooperation with the six Eastern Partnership countries over the past four years has been extremely intense and has covered a range of thematic areas where we have a number of success stories to share.
Read country case studies [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/governance/results/case-studies]
Online training for the Eco Portals in Armenia [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/29-june-2020-european-union-support-will-help-armenia-to-have-better-access-to-information-about-water-resources] and Azerbaijan [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/23-24-june-2020-european-union-support-will-help-azerbaijan-to-have-better-access-to-information-about-water-resources] as well as the launch of the Water Information System in Georgia [https://eni-seis.eionet.europa.eu/east/areas-of-work/communication/newsletter/eu-funded-project-delivers-training-on-water-information-system-of-georgia]
© Otars Opermanis
Upcoming events
Dissemination of project deliverables at national and regional events
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