How Bremen actively supports the GMES Development: Comments and statement of the GMES Office Bremen (GOB) concerning the Graz Declaration
The GMES Office Bremen welcomes and fully supports the Graz Declaration as proposed in the recent conference “GMES Graz ´06” and is willing to play an active part in its implementation. To that end, Bremen is interested and well suited to become one of the GMES pilot regions proposed in the Graz declaration since it represents a space region where all major elements and aspects of GMES are concentrated along the complete value chain. The GMES Office Bremen initiative in itself represents a PPP approach that can serve as a model as a regional endeavour concerning European partnership networking and focusing existing regional GMES capacity. The Bremen region is already actively involved in the on-going ERA STAR regions project where it has the leadership in one of the four work packages, as well as in several GMES projects (e.g. ICEMON, PROMOTE). In Bremen, considerable effort has been spent on the following key issues:
- User involvement at the earliest stage as key prerequisite to detailed service definition
- Active role in national/ regional implementation of the proposed INSPIRE Directive
- leadership in standardisation issues (active participation in OGC).
- Extension of GMES to related security issues (in particular security of container/ sea goods transport)
In summary, Bremen, by means of its GMES Office Bremen initiative, is well suited to support the implementation of the Graz Declaration by contributing a “GMES regional test bed”:
- Extension of scope with relevance to the importance of the regional dimensions of GMES services within established Fast Tracks, in particular Marine Fast Track (DeMarine)
- Participation in the planned « Permanent Space Regions Conference » as one of the GMES pilot regions
- Organising regional awareness campaigns on the potential of GMES services and costs-benefits
- Initiation of targeted pilot projects in order to convince decision makers of the GMES service benefits (e.g. in the framework of ERA STAR)
- Active contribution to the additional New services in “air quality monitoring” and “security”
- Networking and integration of New Member states, in particular with coastal zone/ maritime focus
- showing a way ahead for local / regional GMES implementation without which GMES would fail to fully reach the European citizen
Background GMES Office Bremen
The GMES Office Bremen (GOB) is a coordinating and preparing joint initiative of EADS SPACE Transportation GmbH, OHB-System AG and the Institute of Environmental Physics at the University Bremen, strongly supported by the Federal State of Bremen.
The objective of the GOB is to integrate all relevant regional competencies in Bremen to a common effort (Space Industry, Logistics Industry, Value Adding Industry, Institutes of the Universities) in order to act as one region, as it is expected by the European Commission.
The GOB is the instrument to enable Bremen to develop a consistent GMES and Security concept together with the DLR on national level, the European Commission on European level and with public organizations, industry and the scientific sectors within the european environment. The time frame for the GOB activity is until 2008. Within the next two years the GOB has to prepare the final setup of Bremen activities which shall lead to a GMES Center Bremen (GCB) - as nucleus for GMES activities in Northern Europe.
GMES Office Bremen Team
- EADS SPACE Transportation is a specialist in the area of manned and unmanned spaceflight (Ariane 5 launch vehicle, Columbus space laboratory for the ISS (COF), ATV re-supply vessel)
- OHB-System as Germany´s leading small-satellite manufacturer (SAR-Lupe, ORBCOMM, SmallGEO / LUX)
- IUP/IFE (Institute for Environmental Physics) is a world leading research institute in the field of remote sensing and atmospheric research (GOME, SCIAMACHY).
Bremen capabilities in Research and Development
The located technology and research institutions within three public and private universities (University Bremen, Hochschule Bremen, University of Applied Sciences and International University Bremen) underline Bremen's strong competence in the field of GMES:
- Institute for Environmental Physics (IUP)
- Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
- Center for Environmental Research and -Technology (UFT)
- Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM)
- Department of Geosciences at the University Bremen
- DFG Research Center Ocean Margins
- Center for Tropical Marine Ecology (ZMT)
- Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
- Institute of for Aerospace Technologyutomation (IAT)
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI)
- Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM)
- Institute of Shipping Economics and Logistics (ISL)
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