The smeSpire day Slovakia 2014 will take place on 10th of April 2014 in Banska Bystrica, 17th of April 2014 in Bratislava and 25th of April 2014 in the High Tatras.  The last event is organized  together with the CENIA. The Invitation and agenda of the events can be found on the Slovak SK smeSpire webpage (in Slovak) &nbsp

The smeSpire day Spain 2014 will take place on Thursday, 10th of April 2014 in Madrid. The event is organized  together with the Spanish IGN, in their premises in Madrid from 16,00 to 18,00. Later on, a coffee will be served to facilitate the networking among the participants. Find here the INVITATION (in Spanish) Find here the AGENDA (in Spanish) &nbsp

Thanks to the support of the EEN Italian partner Consorzio SPIN, smeSpire established a liaison with Enterprise Europe Network, which brings together business support organisations from more than 50 countries with its nodes in the EU 28 Member States and in 26 non-EU countries as well. The liaison aims at: disseminating the smeSpire project results within EEN through the network communication channels;  recommending the EEN nodes across Europe to encourage their stakeholders to adhere to the smeSpire network;

The Shanghai Business Magazine is the business magazine of the economic and technological heart of China: SHANGHAI. It is directed by the “Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce” and sponsored by the “Shanghai Institute of Business Economics”. Main audience: Decision-makers and administrative staff of industrial, commercial and financial fields Academic world Government research agencies Consultant service organizations The magazine cannot be found in news-stands and is distributed to the main entrepreneurs

Don’t miss the opportunity to attend CSITF 2014 in Shanghai from 24th to 26th of April. Registrations open until 4th of April. More information &nbsp

Lithuanian smeSpire day will take place on Thursday, 27th of March 2014 in Vilnius, Radisson Blu Hotel Lietuva. The event is organized by Institute of Aerial Geodesy (“Aerogeodezijos institutas”). smeSpire network members, business and public administration companies are invited to participate in the event. The programme and registration form is available here. During the event an overview of smeSpire project and its results (company data base, best practice catalog, training

The smeSpire day in Italy will be held next March 17th. The event will be hosted by professional associations of Engineers in Cosenza. The programme of the event is available HERE. This sponsorship is particularly relevant because it contributes to enlarge the INSPIRE user-base to the wide category of Engineers, actively involved in many vertical domains, all of them potentially benefitting from the use of geospatial technologies in general and

The report provides an in-depth analysis and comparison of different Geo-ICT companies in Europe and how they relate to INSPIRE. The study’s primary objectives were: Assessing the market potential for Geo-ICT companies in relation to INSPIRE Characterizing obstacles for Geo-ICT companies to enter this market, with focus on knowledge gaps and training needs The study was carried out in four stages: Desk research using published statistics to describe the Geo-ICT

The national smeSpire day in the Czech Republic with participation from Slovakia will be organized on 12.3.2014 by project partners CENIA and SAZP in Prague. The participants from SMEs, public, research and educational institutions will get information about project activities and results. During practical workshop they will have an opportunity to register their institutions in the smeSpire network and include their activities among best practice catalogue of the project. The

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission is establishing A Reusable INSPIRE Reference Platform (ARE3NA). ARE3NA is identifying and helping to share tools for the implementation for the INSPIRE Directive and looking to build bridges between INSPIRE and, broadly speaking, cross-border and cross-sector e-government activities related to ISA and the Digital Agenda for Europe, including open data portals. ARE3NA has recently launched a study to see how a common Resource