The Inspire 2014 Conference, to be held in Aalborg, Denmark, 16-20 June 2014 is only a month away. The annual Inspire conferences relate to the ‘Infrastructure of Spatial Information in the European Community’, INSPIRE directive (2007/2/EC) which entered into force on 15 May 2007. The event brings together users, technology developers, data providers and policymakers from across the European Union.
These are followed by 3 days of plenary presentations, parallel sessions, poster sessions and exhibition at the Aalborg Conference Centre on 18-20 June. The full programme is available on the INSPIRE 2014 Conference site.
Inspire is completing its formative period, and like children at school now has to pass its mid-term exams, the conference organisation states. The Member States have provided their view on the implementation of the Directive, a public consultation was launched in 2013, together with an independent assessment of progress. These and other related evidence on the costs, benefits, and impacts of INSPIRE are being consolidated in a mid-term evaluation report. The draft report will be presented and debated at the conference in the Plenary ‘INSPIRE at a crossroads?’ on Thursday providing an excellent occasion for all the participants to help its finalisation before submission to the European Parliament and Council.