BALLERINA Workshop Practical Info & Program

Practical Information

How to get to the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (SEPA):

For those arriving by flight: Take a Airport Bus (price SEK 60) to the City terminal. From the City Terminal and the Central Railway Station: Go Klarabergsviadukten direction West, first road to the right is Blekholmsterrassen. SEPA is in no. 36. 5 - 10 mins walk.

Registration:

In the Entrance Hall between 09.15 - 10.00

Especially invited participants & speakers:

Due to highly various arrival times, we can unfortunately not offer any pick-up service. Those arriving in the morning should proceed directly to the Swedish EPA, se description above. Those arriving the day/evening before should check in at the City Hotel, Kungsgatan 47 at Hoetorget. This hotel is located in walking distance from the City Terminal and the Central Railway Station: Go back the street where the Airport buses have their end station at the City terminal. You then come to Kungsbroen/Kungsgatan. Turn right, continue Kungsgata a few hundred meters. Just before Hoetorget, on the right-hand side, is the City Hotel. There is also a big board map where the Airport buses stop, and similar maps in the main hall (For the Baltic states representatives that will participate in the Environmental Monitoring meeting on Wednesday 12., the same guidelines are valid).

Program for BALLERINA Workshop, 13 - 14 June, Stockholm, Sweden

BALtic Sea Region On-Line Environmental Information Resources for INternet Access

Venue: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Blekholmsterrassen 36, 5 mins. walk from the City Terminal and the Central Railway Station, Stockholm.

June 13 


09.30 -	    Registration
10.00

10.15 -	    Mr. Maans Loennroth, Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of
10.45	    the Environment, Sweden:
	    Welcome Address

10.45 -	    Mr. Sindre Langaas, Programme Manager UNEP/GRID-Arendal,
11.10	    Norway:
	    Opening remarks

11.10 -	    Ms. Carol Ratza,  Director Great Lakes Information
11.40	    Network (GLIN), USA:
	    GLIN - a model for the Baltic Sea region ?

11.40 -	    COFFEE BREAK
12.00

12.00 -	    Mr. Stig Hammarsten, Secretary of the Swedish
12.30	    Governmental Report on the Use of
	    Information Technology in Environmental Management:
	    The Swedish Environmental Net

12.30	    Mr. Toomas Moelder, Director of CIESIN Estonian Centre:
-13.00	    Internet and WWW in the Baltic region: An Estonian
	    perspective

13.00 -	    LUNCH
14.00

14.00 -	    Mr. Svein Tveitdal,	 Director UNEP/GRID-Arendal:
14.30	    Internet and Environmental Information Dissemination: A
	    UNEP Perspective

14.30 -	    Discussion Session 1:
15.15	    How to get the 'mandate' from the main environmental
	    information providers - the political dimension.

	    How to agree upon lead party(ies), advisory board and
	    co-operative mechanisms - the institutional	 dimension.

15.15 -	   COFFEE BREAK
15.45

15.45 -	    Discussion Session 2:
16.45	    How to bring the Baltic Sea region institutions and
	    persons to the Internet - the capacity building
	    dimension.
	    How to build the technical infrastructure (Internet/WWW
	    servers with tools) - the technical dimension.
	    How to populate the BALLERINA with key environmental
	    information - the substance dimension.

16.45 -	    Conclusions from first day
17.00




June 14 


09.00 -	    Mr. Bjoern Wahlstedt, CONEXOR AB, Sweden:
09.15	    TallinNet: A Baltic region air quality network

09.15 -	    Mr. Malin Vaeinoe, Finnish Environment Institute, Finland:
09.30	    EINER - A Baltic sub-regional environmental data and
	    information network

09.30 -	    Discussion Session 3:
10.30	    How to populate the BALLERINA with key environmental
	    information - the substance dimension.

10.30 -	    COFFEE BREAK
11.00

11.00 -	    Discussion Session 4:
12.30	    How to define the resource needs and how to secure the
	    funding - the financial dimension.

12.30 -	    LUNCH
13.30

13.30 -	    Testing of Internet & Informal Discussions & COFFEE BREAK
14.30

14.30 -	    Presentation and discussion of Workshop Recommendations
15.30

15.30 -	    Closing Session
16.00

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