1. Newsletter
4
March
2013
Black
Sea
day
celebration
and
enviroGRIDS
final
conference,
October
31.
2012
in
Batumi
Introduction
(Coordinator:
Anthony
Lehmann)
the
lack
of
strong
policy
implementation.
Now
I
can
say
that
I
never
thought
we
would
get
to
However,
where
I
learned
the
most
was
from
the
end
of
this
project.
We
had
so
much
to
do,
the
the
human
side
of
the
project.
I
have
seen
tasks
were
so
challenging,
and
four
years
seemed
to
dedicated
scientists
from
all
the
Black
Sea
be
so
long
when
writing
the
proposal.
BUT
WE
DID
IT
countries
and
beyond
giving
their
best
to
build
…almost
as
planned,
and
in
a
very
collaborative
and
together
the
Black
Sea
catchment
Observation
constructive
atmosphere!!!
I
learned
so
much
from
System.
Regardless
of
nationality,
age,
gender
this
project,
and
clearly
I
built
my
own
capacities!
and
religion,
all
the
enviroGRIDS
partners
were
Of
course,
from
a
scientific
perspective,
we
addressed
fully
committed
to
the
project’s
common
several
important
challenges
such
as
improving
objectives,
as
if
we
had
all
found
along
the
environmental
data
sharing
and
processing
in
order
shores
of
the
Black
Sea
the
warm
arms
of
a
to
build
the
first
hydrological
model
for
the
entire
caring
mother.
Black
Sea
catchment,
and
to
explore
several
scenarios
of
land
cover,
demographic
and
climatic
changes.
Similar
scientific
and
environmental
challenges
exist
everywhere
around
the
World,
but
they
are
particularly
useful
in
this
part
of
the
World
because
of
the
important
environmental
crisis
that
the
Black
Sea
catchment
is
facing
coupled
with
Batumi’s coast of Georgia, Nov.1. 2012
2. Unfortunately,
what
is
true
in
the
enviroGRIDS
making
its
inhabitants
proud
and
caring
about
consortium
is
not
a
feeling
that
is
sufficiently
shared
their
heritage.
Unfortunately,
economical
among
the
people
living
in
the
region.
This
is
why
the
constraints,
religious
differences
and
work
of
the
Black
Sea
Commission
(BSC)
as
well
as
the
nationalistic
behaviours
are
dominating
the
International
Commission
for
the
Protection
of
the
regional
development,
where
a
more
Danube
River
(ICPDR)
is
so
important.
This
is
also
why
sustainable
and
collaborative
pathway
is
clearly
these
commissions
should
be
given
much
more
needed.
financial,
technical,
scientific
and
political
means,
This
is
why
in
the
framework
of
this
capacity
because
they
participate
in
the
preparation
of
a
building
project,
much
hope
came
from
the
sustainable
future
for
this
region.
When
we
think
skills
and
great
achievements
of
several
young
about
the
history
of
the
Black
Sea
that
has
seen
scientists.
We
decided
therefore
to
dedicate
to
among
others,
the
Greeks,
the
Romans,
the
them
this
last
Newsletter
with
a
selection
of
Venetians,
the
Ottomans
and
the
Hunts
occupying
portraits
to
thank
them
for
their
appreciated
this
region,
one
would
hope
that
the
cultural
heritage
efforts.
We
wish
that
they
will
be
a
source
of
from
all
these
great
civilisations
would
highlight
the
inspiration
for
future
generations.
beauty
and
importance
of
this
part
of
the
world,
3. Key
achievements
in
2012-‐2013
(Manager:
documentary
in
their
FUTURIS
collection
in
July
Nicolas
Ray)
2012
(available
on
enviroGRIDS
website
front
page).
Needless
to
say
it
was
extremely
useful
The
last
quarter
of
any
project
is
always
a
thrilling
for
disseminating
a
high-‐quality
summary
of
mome It
is
the time whe
the ke proje
nt.
re
y
ct
the
project
in
several
languages.
achievements
need
to
be
finalized,
integrated,
and
efficiently
disseminated.
One
of
the
key
project
Towards
the
end
of
the
project
we
also
outputs,
namely
the
calibrated
high-‐resolution
strengthened
our
implication
in
both
ICPDR
hydrological
model
of
the
Black
Sea
catchment,
was
(Danube
Commission)
and
the
Black
Sea
finalized
towards
the
very
end
of
the
project.
We
had
Commission.
ICPDR
has
officially
adopted
the
to
face
many
complex
data
integration
issues
and
strategy
of
an
open-‐source
SDI
based
on
the
new
software
development
was
required
to
handle
recommendation
of
the
enviroGRIDS
project.
the
largest
SWAT
hydrological
model
ever
developed.
As
much
as
we
have
achieved,
challenges
still
Great
collaboration
among
partners
made
it
possible
remain.
An
administrative
one
is
first
expected,
eventually,
and
this
SWAT
model
will
be
the
basis
of
as
we are ge
aring
up
for
writing
the
Final
many
applications
beyond
the
project
life
span.
Report
to
be
submitted
to
the
Commission.
GEO/GEOSS
activities
continued
to
be
strengthened
Then,
some
of
the
results,
methodologies,
during
that
period,
with
our
participation
in
the
GEO
tools,
concepts,
and
analyses
from
the
project
Plenary
in
Foz
do
Iguaçu
(Brazil)
in
November
2012.
will
be
published
through
three
special
issues
Capacity
building
on
GEOSS
and
OGC
related
material
of
peer-‐reviewed
international
journals.
Finally,
was
done
in
Georgia
during
the
Final
meeting
of
the
the
momentum
of
the
collaboration
among
project
(Oct.
30
–
Nov.
2,
2012).
Numerous
services
several
partners
needs
to
be
maintained,
and
it
(25+),
data
sets
(250+)
and
layers
(300'000+)
have
will
be
through
forthcoming
joint
projects.
been
registered
in
the
GEOSS
by
enviroGRIDS
As
the
project
comes
to
its
completion,
a
deep
partners.
feeling
surfaces:
that
of
being
immensely
lucky
The
enviroGRIDS
portal
to
have
had
the
privilege
of
(http://portal.envirogrids.net)
managing
enviroGRIDS.
The
has
gone
through
its
final
lifting,
many
colleagues
–
now
friends
and
access
to
the
key
tools
–
I
had
to
interact
with,
the
(Geoportal,
Greenland,
gSWAT,
challenges
and
the
solutions,
eGLE,
BASHYT)
developed
in
the
the
achievements,
the
project
is
now
possible
through
a
difficulties.
I
learnt
a
lot,
and
useful
single
sign-‐on.
had
my
share
of
capacity
building,
for
the
future!
The
dissemination
"dream
item"
came
from
the
TV
channel
EuroNews.
They
covered
the
project
through
an
extensive
8’
4. UNIGE
(Violeta
Djambazova)
inseparable
facet
of
the
pure ‘technical’
I
engaged
in
enviroGRIDS
aspects
of
research
in
a
research
project
of
this
for
my
first
research
magnitude.
project
as
a
Master
My
interest
was
caught
in
particular
by
the
student
at
the
University
question
of
the
role
of
science
in
policy
making.
of
Geneva.
It
was
a
very
It
is
the most
relevant
one
to
the
goal
of
rich
opportunity
in
terms
implementing
policy
targets
in
sustainable
of
partners
involved
as
development
through
funding
of
research,
such
well
as
objectives
and
as
expressed
by
the
European
Community
in
corresponding
research
topics.
I
was
enthusiastic
to
contributing
to
enviroGRIDS.
In
the
participate
in
such
an
effort
supported
by
the
continuation
of
the
project,
it
is
currently
the
European
Community
and
curious
to
explore
topic
of
my
doctoral
thesis
in
environmental
international
collaboration.
Being
Bulgarian,
I
was
sciences.
also
eager
to
contribute
to
the
undertaking
of
Bulgaria
as
a
partner
country
towards
sustainable
UNEP/GRID
(Grégory
Giuliani)
energy
use.
EnviroGRIDS
is
so
far
Thus
my
work
was
directed
to
the
evaluation
of
the
the
greatest
moment
electricity
production
potential
from
wind
of
my
scientific
installations
in
Bulgaria.
I
was
in
contact
with
local
career.
This
was
a
partners,
both
the
wind
data
holders
and
energy
unique
opportunity
experts.
We
exchanged
by
writing
and
met
on
one
for
a
young
scientist
occasion.
But
distance
with
research
partners
is
not
to
be
part
of
such
an
easily
managed,
not
only
for
itself
but
because
it
can
important
and
reflect
differences
in
viewpoint,
research
method,
ambitious
project.
stakes
in
the
project,
understanding
of
research
goals,
data
sharing
policy,
fears
and
expectations.
All
From
a
scientific
point
of
view,
I
had
the
chance
of
which
factors
I
did
not
suspect
the
influence.
to
lead
the
workpackage
on
Spatial
Data
Infrastructure
and
to
do
my
PhD
under
the
Therefore
difficulties
in
collaboration
relations
in
this
supervision
of
Prof.
Anthony
Lehmann
(UNIGE-‐
context
range
from
plain
misunderstandings
to
Switzerland)
and
Prof.
Stefano
Nativi
(CNR-‐
manifestations
of
politics
associated
with
scientific
Italy).
I
learned
also
a
lot
in
contact
with
so
research,
in
addition
to
the
politics
of
the
subject
many
good
scientists
belonging
to
this
matter,
here
renewable
energy
use.
The
latter
two
consortium.
are
not
simple
to
dissociate
and
I
experienced
this
as
a
complex
canvas,
against
which
to
interpret
In
a
general
scientific
context,
sharing
and
interactions,
and
work
towards
completing
my
study.
documenting
data
is
part
of
the
elementary
Considerations
relating
to
political
science
are
an
scientific
approach,
allowing
scientists
to
compare
their
results
and
methods
more
5. easily,
and
then
enhancing
scientific
accountability,
UMA
(Emanuele
Mancosu)
credibility
and
potentially
improving
quality
of
data
for
the
benefit
of
everyone.
I
entered
the
enviroGRIDS
This
project
also
gave
me
the
possibility
to
participate
project
at
the
end
of
2010
in
numerous
events
and
conferences
around
Europe
supporting
the
tasks
of
and
outside.
This
allowed
me
to
discover
the
state-‐of-‐ work
package
3,
at
the
the-‐art
of
spatial
data
infrastructure
and
this
was
beginning
with
the
really
exciting.
Autonomous
University
of
Probably
the
most
important
lesson
I
have
learnt
in
Barcelona
and
later
with
enviroGRIDS
is
that,
besides
all
the
good
scientific
and
the
University
of
Malaga.
technical
results,
an
important
aspect
of
participating
I
gained
more
and
more
in
a
large
European
research
project
is
the
spirit
of
responsibility
up
to
collaboration.
Having
the
chance
to
work
with
various
coordinating
the
WP3's
activities
during
the
scientists
coming
from
different
countries
with
last
year
of
the
project.
WP3
aims
at
building
different
cultures
was
stimulating.
All
these
moments
future
scenarios
of
land
use,
climate
and
of
exchange,
sharing,
discussions
have
enriched
and
demography
for
the
Black
Sea
catchment,
as
a
broadened
my
scientific
and
human
horizons.
basis
for
assessing
water
resources.
One
of
the
objectives
of
enviroGRIDS
was
to
build
the
Thanks
to
this
project,
I
have
been
able
to
capacities
of
scientists
to
share
data
in
the
Black
Sea
expand
my
knowledge
in
the
field
of
land
use
region.
Enabling
data
sharing
relies
mostly
on
dynamics,
also
to
the
competence
of
the
individuals
that
should
have
in
common:
(1)
a
sense
European
Topic
Centre
(ETCLUSI,
then
ETCSIA)
that
better
data
will
lead
to
better
decisions,
(2)
a
where
I
am
working.
Several
methodologies
sharing
spirit
that
they
got
something
in
return
and
previously
explored
in
a
European
framework
are
viewed
as
collaborative
partners,
and
(3)
the
fact
were
extended
to
the
Black
Sea
basin
level,
that
they
are
involved
in
a
professional
culture
that
bordering
the
crossroad
of
Eastern
Europe
and
honours
serving
society
and
cooperating
with
others.
Western
Asia.
For
me this
was
a
ke value re se
,
y
pre ntative of
Such
a
deep
research
implied
interpretative
enviroGRIDS
partners.
exchanges
with
partners
and
local
institutions
At
the
end
of
this
project,
I
would
like
to
thank
all
the
to
find
out
regional
data,
being
aware
of
enviroGRIDS
members
for
their
time,
patience,
trust,
physical
geographic
conditions
and
policy
friendship,
and
for
all
the
great
moments
we
had
status
of
the
territory
to
overcome
lack
of
along
the
entire
project.
I
really
hope
that
we
will
resources
and
fulfil
the
research
background.
have
the
chance
to
continue
our
collaborations
in
the
Among
the
assimilated
technical
work,
mostly
future.…
characterized
by
evaluating
and
improving
GIS
procedures,
the
analysis
and
application
of
a
modelling
framework
was
the
most
interesting
6. part.
This
necessity
brought
the
team
and
me
to
impossible
and
with
cooperation
and
master
powerful
modelling
software
able
to
draw
collaboration
everything
could
be
achieved.
plausible
future
scenarios
on
land
use,
through
the
This
work
was
a
great
opportunity
for
me
to
interpretation
of
historical
data
and
by
employing
tackle
existing
gaps
in
water
resources
ancillary
data
as
driving
forces.
The
whole
process
management
in
the
region,
and
to
contribute
was
supported
by
evaluation
of
experts.
Since
the
to
a
high
standard
scientific
community
as
well
project
had
ambitious
objectives,
work
package
3
was
as
stakeholders.
Now
that
I
am
looking
back,
I
also
a
big
challenge:
operating
within
a
wide
study
see
all
the
ups
and
downs,
and
I
realize
how
area,
selecting
useful
data
from
different
providers
much
I
have
learned.
I
am
very
grateful
for
and
countries,
processing
a
huge
quantity
of
data,
being
part
of
the
professional
team
in
the
and
finally
producing
convincing
results.
enviroGRIDS
project,
and
am
humbled
by
the
EnviroGRIDS
has
made
collaboration
possible
with
challenging
task
in
front
of
us.
EnviroGRIDS
not
experts
from
different
countries
and
contexts,
only
brought
me
a
valuable
scientific
starting
from
the
smaller
circle
of
colleagues
from
the
experience
in
water
research
study,
hydrology,
centre,
passing
through
the
WP’s
partners
and
up
to
modelling,
climate
change
and
land
use
change
the
larger
net
of
experts
and
institutions
involved.
impact
analysis,
but
also
it
was
a
great
source
Creating
stronger
relationships
has
facilitated
the
of
ideas
and
experiences
on
how
to
work
as
a
expansion
of
scientific
knowledge
reaching
great
team.
The
project
deepened
my
insight
of
the
results.
Moreover,
it
was
fundamental
to
have
the
spirit
of
shared
environment
-‐shared
chance
to
learn
from
the
Black
Sea
area,
not
only
in
a
experiences-‐
and
shared
data.
I
realized
that
theoretic
way
but
also
in
a
more
active
way,
meeting
environment
does
not
know
political
the
people
and
visiting
the
places
involved,
making
boundaries,
and
environmental
problems
do
this
experience
more
real.
not
stop
at
the
borders!
The
objective
of
the
project
was
to
explore
the
past,
present
and
future
of
the
Black
Sea
Basin
EAWAG
(Elham
Rouholahnejad)
and
I
am
very
happy
to
have
contributed
in
the
I
started
my
PhD
study
at
the
hydrological
part.
The
important
questions
ETH
Zurich,
Environmental
were:
Science
Department
in
September
2009.
My
project
-‐
Are
the
existing
databases
sufficient
for
was
to
study
the
water
modelling
the
BSB?
Could
we
build
a
high-‐
resources
availability
and
resolution
hydrological-‐crop
model
of
the
quality
in
the
Black
Sea
Basin
region?
Could
we
calibrate
and
validate
such
a
within
the
framework
of
the
model?
Could
we
estimate
how
much
enviroGRIDS
project.
My
task
was
a
rather
ambitious
freshwater
there
is
and
what
is
the
status
of
one
and
seemed
unapproachable
to
me
at
the
water
quality?
How
much
confidence
would
we
beginning,
but
I
quickly
learned
that
nothing
was
have
of
our
estimates?
Could
such
a
large
model
be
run
on
our
existing
computer
7. resources?
What
would
the
future
hold
for
the
region
most
important
milestone
experiences
in
my
in
light
of
climate
and
land
use
changes?
professional
life
for
several
reasons.
Tremendous
advances
in
modelling
and
model
EnviroGRIDS
gave
me
the
opportunity
to
work
calibration
have
allowed
us
to
perform
the
tasks
in
a
scientific
network
with
a
large
number
of
mentioned
above.
We
used
Soil
and
Water
qualified
scientists.
We
all
shared
our
Assessment
Tool
(SWAT)
to
build
the
hydrological
experiences
and
knowledge
on
our
fields
water
quantity-‐quality
model
coupled
with
crop
yield.
during
meetings
and
conferences
for
four
We
used
SWAT-‐CUP
to
calibrate
and
validate
the
years,
so
it
was
a
great
pleasure
for
me
to
be
model
with
uncertainty
analysis.
involved
in
such
a
comprehensive
project.
EnviroGRIDS
project
aimed
to
build
capacity
for
Using
the
above
methodologies,
we we
able to
re
a
Black
Sea
Catchment
Observation
and
study
the
past
37
years
of
the Black
Sea
Basin
Assessment
System
supporting
Sustainable
hydrological
statues,
assess
historical
changes,
Development.
This
goal
does
not
only
include
support
environmental
monitoring
and
seasonal
the
technical
aspects
such
as
data
and
forecasting
of
trends,
and
we
evaluated
the
impact
of
methodology
but
also
covers
training
of
young
natural
and
manmade
pressures
on
water
resources
scientist
to
be
able
to
ensure
the
permanency
by
prediction
of
future
changes.
We
hope
that
this
and
sustainability
of
the
scientific
works
at
leads
to
analysis
of
alternative
management
plans
Black
Sea
Catchment
in
the
future.
All
of
the
and
establishes
optimal
strategies
by
decision
makers
young
researchers
who
started
their
PhD
for
reaching
the
desired
water
quantity
and
quality
research
within
the
enviroGRIDS
project
are
standards
in
the
Black
Sea
Basin.
now
young
and
experienced
scientists
ready
to
work
for
the
progress
of
the
Black
Sea
Catchment.
This
result
is
going
to
sustain
the
ITU
(Özgür
Doğru)
spirit
of
the
enviroGRIDS
project
when
it
is
I
have been
involved
in
completed.
enviroGRIDS
project
as
a
I
was
involved
in
WP2
and
WP5
as
a
researcher
member
of
ITU
Partner
since
during
the
enviroGRIDS
project
and
I
was
also
the
beginning,
the
year
2009,
assisting
the
Leader
of
Work
Package
5,
Prof.
when
I
was
a
visiting
researcher
Dr.
Seval
SÖZEN.
Therefore,
in
addition
to
for
my
PhD
research
at
the
technical
self-‐improvement
on
GIS
and
open-‐
National
Geographic
Institute,
source
data
publishing
issues,
enviroGRIDS
in
France.
Although
project
acquainted
me
with
management
enviroGRIDS
was
not
the
first
processes.
At
the
end
of
the
project,
I
would
EU
project
that
I
was
involved
in,
it
is
the
biggest
one
like
to
thank
all
enviroGRIDS
members
who
with
lots
of
researchers
from
30
partners
distributed
have
contributed
to
the
project.
I
hope
that
our
in
15
countries
from
all
over
the
Black
Sea
Catchment
professional
relations
will
continue
in
the
and
Europe.
Therefore,
enviroGRIDS
is
one
of
my
future.
8. ITU
(Filiz
Bektaş
Balçık)
UTCN
(Denisa
Rodila)
I
have
participated
in
In
this
project,
I
have
enviroGRIDS
since
2009
as
a
found
a
collaborative
member
of
Istanbul
Technical
environment
which
University
team.
This
project
offered
me
the
allowed
me
to
work
with
30
chance
to
be
part
of
a
different
partners
from
15
great
scientific
different
countries.
I
believe
research
team
and
to
that
it
was
a
unique
meet
experts
in
opportunity
to
improve
not
different
research
only
my
scientific
vision
but
fields.
Being
part
of
this
community
helped
me
also
my social
and
cultural
point
of
view.
grow
and
enhance
my
knowledge
especially
in
Within
this
project,
I
had
a
great
chance
to
work
as
Environmental
Sciences
but
also
in
Computer
part
of
a
scientific
network
in
a
collaborative
Sciences
considering
the
project
challenges
and
environment.
During
the
project,
I
have
gained
collaborations.
valuable
knowledge
from
other
disciplines.
I
also
had
I
have
developed
tight
professional
a
chance
to
improve
my
skills
to
work
together
with
relationships
with
all
the
partners
that
I
have
scientists
from
different
disciplines
and
different
collaborated
with,
based
on
competent
countries
in
a
comprehensive
project.
We
had
the
professional
skills
and
good
communication.
opportunity
to
share
our
experiences
and
knowledge
During
the
project
meetings
and
reunions
I
had
related
to
our
topics
via
conferences,
workshops
and
a
great
intercultural
experience,
which
allowed
meetings
carried
out
at
different
times
and
in
many
me
to
get
in
contact
with
a
lot
of
different
countries.
It
was
a
great
pleasure
for
me
to
be
part
of
people
and
their
culture,
and
to
share
this
multi-‐cultural
collaborative
environment
and
information
and
knowledge.
share
our
experiences.
Although
enviroGRIDS
was
not
the
first
In
this
project,
I
took
part
in
two
different
working
international
project
I
was
involved
in,
I
have
groups
(WP2
and
WP5).
Especially
close
collaboration
gained
a
lot
of
experience
in
working
with
between
ITU
and
UTCN
guided
me
to
improve
my
teams
having
different
backgrounds
and
aspect
in
Remote
Sensing
Technology
and
Computer
different
expertise.
I
was
sometimes
intrigued
Sciences.
During
this
project,
the
most
important
and
surprised
to
find
out
how
experts
in
other
achievement
for
me
was
learning
how
to
find
an
research
fields
perceive
the
insight
of
efficient
way
to
work
with
scientists
who
are
expert
Computer
Sciences
and
what
the
general
idea
in
different
disciplines.
I
strongly
believed
that
this
is
about
the
computing
environments
behind
project
allowed
me
to
get
a
chance
to
work
with
the
every
system.
I
have
shared
a
lot
of
knowledge
best
professionals
in
their
own
areas,
a
chance
that
is
and
I
have
improved
my
know-‐how
in
related
rarely
given
for
a
young
scientist
like
me.
9. research
fields,
which
helped
me
broaden
my
Other
tasks
in
WP7
included
the
compilation
of
horizons
even
more.
policy
briefs
and
newsletters,
writing
reports
of
I
have
gained
experience
working
and
collaborating
in
workshops,
gathering
open
access
publications
the
interdisciplinary
domains
of
Environment
and
etc.
They
were
successfully
fulfilled
thanks
to
Computer
Sciences
and
these
gained
scientific
the
good
response
and
support
of
all
the
capacities
and
experiences
have
been
capitalized
in
enviroGRIDS
partners.
different
high-‐level
national
and
international
Furthermore,
Antea
Group
also
had
a
mayor
journals
and
conference
papers.
role
in
Work
Package
5,
dealing
with
Early
Overall,
I
had
a
great
pleasure
being
part
of
such
a
Warning
Systems
in
the
Black
Sea
Region
based
large
consortium
and
getting
to
know
such
wonderful
on
pilot
case
studies.
I
have
been
focusing
on
people, starting
from
the
management
team
and
the
social
impacts
of
floods
(Körös
case
study,
continuing
with
all
the
partners
I
interacted
with.
Hungary).
A
GIS
tool
was
built
to
assess
the
From
my
point
of
view,
enviroGRIDS
was
a
successful
social
impact
of
floods.
It
has
been
a
real
project
not
only
for
fulfilling
the
proposed
objectives
challenge
and
opportunity
to
work
in
a
data
but
also
for
creating
strong
professional
relationships
poor
environment.
among
the
involved
partners.
This
enviroGRIDS
project
has
been
a
great
scientific
and
intercultural
experience
to
me
and
I
have
been
able
to
get
in
contact
with
a
ANTEA
GROUP
(Annelies
Beel)
many
different
people.
Furthermore,
I
would
My
company,
a
private
engineering
also
like
to
thank
all
the
colleagues
at
Antea
consultancy,
was
responsible
for
Group
that
cooperated
in
this
project.
Work
Package
7
on
‘Dissemination
and
training’.
I
started
cooperating
in
enviroGRIDS
by
organizing
a
small
Project
after-‐life
plan
(Anthony
Lehmann)
project
meeting
in
Ghent
(Belgium)
A
lot
of
efforts
have
been
put
in
this
project
to
in
October
2010.
Compared
with
the
help
and
serve
the
two
main
identified
end
meeting
in
Batumi
2
years
later,
this
users,
namely
the
BSC
and
the
ICPDR.
The
was
a
minor
challenge.
challenge
for
after
the
end
of
the
project
is
to
Now,
after
having
organized
the
end
conference
in
insure
that
these
commissions
will
be
able
to
Batumi
(November
2012,
Georgia)
for
more
than
200
use
the
products
of
the
project,
and
that
the
people,
I
have
learned
a
lot.
partners
will
keep
trying
to
develop
new
Thanks
to
the
excellent
cooperation
with
enviroGRIDS
activities
and
projects
in
relationship
to
what
partners
such
as
Anthony
Lehmann
and
Nicolas
Ray
was
achieved
in
the
enviroGRIDS
project.
(Coordinators,
University
of
Geneva)
and
Mamuka
In
order
to
favour
this
process,
we
proposed
to
Gvilava
(Geographic,
Georgia)
and
the
Tourism
sign
agreements
with
the
BSC,
the
ICPDR
and
Agency
of
Batumi,
this
conference
was
a
real
success.
between
the
enviroGRIDS
partners
in
charge
of
the
Black
Sea
Catchment
–
Observation
10. System.
The
aim
of
these
agreements
is
to
maintain
D5.11
Report
on
the
Biodiversity
societal
benefit
the
interest
and
capacities
of
the
two
commissions
to
area
use
the
outputs
of
enviroGRIDS
on
one
side,
and
also
D6.11
Functional
prototypes
available
on
the
web
to
keep
the
system
up
and
running
on
the
other
side.
of
BSC-‐OS
for
citizens
For
the
Black
Sea
Commission,
the
possibility
of
D7.17
Fourth
newsletter
and
policy
briefing
setting
nutrient
loads
targets
for
each
catchment
D7.18
Report
on
End-‐conference
entering
the
Black
Sea
is
an
interesting
mean
to
drive
a
new
policy
to
reduce
the
eutrophication
in
the
Black
Selected
2012
Publications
Sea.
Gorgan,
D.,
Bacu,
V.,
Mihon,
D.,
Stefanut,
T.,
Rodila,
For
the
ICPDR,
a
great
opportunity
exists
to
extend
its
D.,
Cau,
P.,
Abbaspour,
K.,
Giuliani,
G.,
Ray,
N.
great
experience
on
River
basin
management
in
the
and
A.
Lehmann.
2012.
Software
platform
East.
interoperability
throughout
enviroGRIDS
portal.
Journal
of
Selected
Topics
in
Applied
For
the
enviroGRIDS
project,
the
aim
is
to
keep
all
the
Earth
Observations
and
Remote
Sensing,
5(6):
data
and
the
models
produced
by
the
project
freely
1617-‐1627
available,
especially
the
scenarios
and
the
Rouholahnejad,
E.,
Abbaspour,
K.C.,
Vejdani,
M.,
hydrological
model
outputs.
Srinivasan,
R.,
Schulin,
R.
&
Lehmann,
A.
2012,
From
the
University
of
Geneva
coordination,
the
A
parallelization
framework
for
calibration
of
participation
in
two
new
FP7
networking
projects
hydrological
models.
Environmental
Modelling
(IASON
&
EOPOWER)
will
allow
to
pursue
the
&
Software31:
28-‐36
development
of
useful
technical
solutions.
Medinets
S.,
&
Medinets
V.
2012.
Investigations
of
Thanks
to
our
Georgian
partner,
it
is
now
clearly
Atmospheric
Wet
and
Dry
Nutrient
Deposition
established
that
this
country
will
be
the
next
one
to
Marine
Surface
in
Western
Part
of
the
Black
Sea.Turkish
Journal
of
Fisheries
and
Aquatic
becoming
an
official
GEO
member.
Sciences
12:
497-‐505
Finally,
the
University
of
Geneva
and
UNEP/GRID
will
actively
participate
in
the
organisation
of
the
next
GEO
Plenary
and
Ministerial
in
Geneva
in
January
Acknowledgements
2014.
The
European
Commission,
project
under
call
FP7-‐ENV-‐2008-‐1,
grant
agreement
No.
226740.
Public
Deliverables
(months
37-‐48)
(soon
available
at
www.envirogrids.net)
D4.11
Calibrated
water
quantity
and
quality
model
for
BSC,
with
impacts
of
scenarios
D5.8
Synthesis
of
vulnerability
and
adaptation
issues
D5.10
Illustrated
pilot
case
studies
for
the
Black
Sea
Catchment
Disaster
Early
Warning
System
