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• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network – target setting meeting
8-9 September 2008, Košice, Slovakia
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• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network – Carpathian Biodiversity Information System – expert meeting
2 June 2008, Bratislava, Slovakia
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• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network – Carpathian Biodiversity Information System
Bratislava, 3–5 March 2008
The third of the series of meetings of working group on Carpathian Biodiversity Information System under BBI/Matra project. The purpose of the meeting was:
• to link the process of design the Carpathian Ecological Network in the BBI-Matra project countries (Ukraine, Romania and Serbia), with an emphasis on the building of Carpathian Biodiversity Information System, with the remaing Carpathian countries
• to explain and clarify the process of biodiversity data collection and work flow for the experts from Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia and Hungary.
• national teams Ukraine, Romania and Serbia present generated data, questions, clarifications
• to revise the outputs of the work of the teams in Ukraine, Romania and Serbia
• to discuss the scope, contents and target audience for common publication
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• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network – Carpathian Biodiversity Information System – GIS/Database training 1
Herľany, Slovakia, 27-28 September 2007
Based on the results of the training needs assessment, which was carried out in December 2006 to identify the main needs and wishes of the Carpathian Ecoregion Initiative (CERI) members for receiving training in the course of the programme, the module on increase of GIS and database capacities was prepared. First training was held at the end of September in Eastern Slovakia. The second training is foreseen for June 2008.
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• 1st Meeting of the Clearing House Mechanism Working Group to the 2012 Protected Area Programme – The Carpathian Mountains Ecoregion
Organized by WWF DCP
Bratislava 27 June 2007
CERI is the member of the Steering Group to the 2012 Protected Areas Programme – The Carpathian Mountain Region. The objectives of the project is to establish a mechanism to drive, support and coordinate the implementation of the PoWPA´s, ensure that Carpathian Protected Areas are supported by a network of skilled professional practitioners, increase participation of key stakeholders, ensure that critical gaps in the Protected Area network are filled and improve capacity for the valuation of Protected Area goods and services and for cross-sectoral planning for effective management and benefit realization as well as increase public awareness.
The role of the Steering Group is instrumental and twofold – the group serves as an advisory to the Carpathian Project Management Team and ensures favourable conditions for the effective implementation of the programme in the Carpathians by engaging key partners and stakeholders in the project, e.g. national governments, national and international NGOs, intergovernmental institutions and bi- and multilateral aid agencies in the Carpathian countries. The Group meets twice a year to discuss progress made, comments on the annual work plan and specific activities and identifies challenges and opportunities.
The main elements of the meeting agenda were to define the structure of the Carpathian Clearing House Mechanism – main themes, to draft the structure of the CHM and discuss the issues of languages, hosting and administration etc. The meeting was also an opportunity to discuss the issues of the Matra BBI project and meet further potential co-workers from the Carpathian region (Romania, Serbia, Poland, Hungary, and Ukraine).
• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network – 2nd expert meeting
Brasov, 31 May – 1 June 2007
The second meeting of the experts working on Carpathian Biodiversity Informaion System, which supports design of a Carpathian Ecological Network aimed to assess the first phase of biodiversity data collection and to clarify further steps of biodiversity data collection. National coordinators presented the process of:
• assessment of availability and reliability of databases storing biodiversity data
• assessment of availability and reliability of data on biological aspects
• refinement of the boundaries of orographical units
• preparation of the national lists of habitats, plant and animal species, being conservation features to design of ecological network
The coordinators and experts summarized the result of the work and shared their experience with the problems they encountered during this phase of the work. Extremely important part of the meeting was discussion in the groups (habitats and plants, animals) and finalization of the lists of conservation features. Data on their distribution in the orographical units in the three project countries will be collected in the next phase.
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• Design of the Carpathian Ecological Network - 1st expert meeting
Bratislava, 7-9 February 2007
This was the first common meeting of the work group heads, EU experts and national experts from Ukraine, Romania and Serbia, who were identified during the first phase of the project. The agenda of day one and day two was focused on ecological network design. The objectives were to identify the conservation features to be used to define the parameters of the ecological corridors and to identify those factors that determine the feasibility of their successful conservation. The purpose of the day three on Carpathian Biodiversity Information System was to explain and clarify the process of biodiversity data collection and work flow.
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