The Initiative and the Network
The BALLERINA initiative was initially proposed by UNEP/GRID-Arendal, strongly inspired by the Great Lakes Information Network, GLIN.
Funding for BALLERINA development and activities has since 1996 been provided by the Environment and Natural Resources Information Network (ENRIN) project of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the European Environment Agency, the Infodev Programme of the WorldBank, the Norwegian Ministry of Environment, the Swedish Ministry of Environment and the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
[ Aim & Objectives | Lead Parties | Advisory Board | Documents | Advertise ]
BALLERINA Aim and Objectives
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The overall aim of the BALLERINA initiative is to contribute to the sustainable development of the Baltic Sea Region environment, by improving the availability and accessibility of relevant Internet-based information for decision-making at all levels. Main objectives are:
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BALLERINA Lead Parties
At the First Annual BALLERINA Conference, 22-23 June 1997 in Riga, Latvia, UNEP-GRID/Arendal, Norway, and Stockholm Marine Research Centre, Sweden, were elected as BALLERINA Lead Parties for the period 1997--2000.
BALLERINA Advisory Board
At the First Annual BALLERINA Conference, 22-23 June 1997 in Riga, Latvia, the following BALLERINA Advisory Board was elected:
| Name | Institution | Country |
| Chairman | ||
| Andrus Meiner | Estonian Environment Information Centre | Estonia |
| Co-chairman | ||
| Nathaniel Trumbull | Transboundary Environment Information Agency | Russia |
| Members | ||
| Maria Andrzejewska | UNEP/GRID-Warsaw | Poland |
| Harijs Baranovs | Latvian Environmental Data Centre | Latvia |
| Heidrun Fammler | Baltic Environmental Forum | Latvia |
| Ulrich Kremser | HELCOM | Finland |
| Lars Kristoferson | formerly Baltic 21 Secretariat, since 1 February 1999: WWF | Sweden |
| Juha Markku Leppänen | Finnish Institute for Marine Research | Finland |
| Bo Libert | Swedish Environmental Protection Agency | Sweden |
| Olle Nåbo | MDC | Sweden |
| Hannu Saarenmaa | EEA | Denmark |
| Ruta Vaiciunaite | Lithuanian Fund for Nature | Lithuania |
BALLERINA documents
1998
- Presentation (PowerPoint) at Resource Technology'98 Nordic in Rovaniemi, Finland, 8-12 June: BALLERINA - Quo Vadis? By Sindre Langaas, UNEP/GRID-Arendal, BALLERINA Network Co-ordinator & Britt Hägerhäll Aniansson, Stockholm Marine Research Centre, BALLERINA Editor.
1997
- Report from Expert Seminar on Needs and Approaches to Improve Access to Environmental Information for Transboundary Decision-Making in the Baltic Sea Region, Stockholm, September 1997.
- Presentation at Stockholm
Waters Symposium, August 1997:
BALLERINA -- an Internet-based environmental information co-operative network and gateway to the Baltic Sea Region. - Proceedings the First Annual
BALLERINA Conference, 22-23. 1997, Riga, Latvia.
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1996
BALLERINA advertising
The BALLERINA web site links to more than 1,500 external web sites. If your web site are among these, and you feel that you -- as a BALLERINA Partner and a direct beneficiary of the BALLERINA web site -- would like to recipocally promote BALLERINA, we suggest the following approach; add the following HTML code to the relevant web page:
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of the BALLERINA web site--->
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a <IMG SRC="http://www.baltic-region.net/graphics/ball_ad.gif"
WIDTH="158" HEIGHT="33" BORDER="0" ALIGN="Middle">
Partner!</FONT></A>
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This should look like this;
Partner!