Eleventh Plenary Meeting UN-GGIM: Europe

The meeting of UN-GGIM: Europe will be held in Geneva at the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) overlapping with the 72nd Session of the Conference of European Statisticians (CES). The meeting will be held at the Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland the 19 – 20 June 2024.

• Draft Agenda (as of 12 June 2024)
• Work plan – report and update (agenda items 3 – 8 and item 19)
  • Status Report – LoW Data Integration
  • Status Report – LoW SDGs
• Report from UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat (agenda items 3-8) updated 17.6.2024
• Vision Documents (agenda item 18)
  • Collaboration with the PSN
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging

• Papers for the Common Day can be found on the CES page, here.
• Tentative timetable for the Common Day can be found here.

Session 1: Implementing the UN-GGIM: Europe work plan

• UN-GGIM: Europe – Year in Review – Carol Agius, UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat
• Lines of work: Data integration – Pier-Giorgio Zaccheddu, Germany
• Lines of work: SDGs –  Célia Ferreira, Portugal
• Line of work: IGIF – James Norris, United Kingdom and Northern Ireland
• Line of work: Data & Policy –  Ewa Surma, Poland
• Line of work: Europe GRF – Johannes Van Geertsom, Belgium

Session 2: Underpinning the global agenda with geospatial information

• World Health Organisation – Ravi Shankar Santhana Gopala Krishnan, World Health Organisation
• WMO and climate change: Opportunities and challenges – Peer Hechler, World Meteorological Organisation

Session 3: UN-GGIM: Europe contributing to the Committee of Experts

• United Nations Global Geospatial Knowledge and Innovation Centre – Paul Becker, Germany
• Future United Nations Global Centre of Excellence in Riyadh – Mohammad Almabrook, Saudi Arabia
• UN-GGIM Interregional collaboration – Contributing to the UN-GGIM Programme; Andre Nonguierma, UN-GGIM: Africa
• UN-GGIM Interregional collaboration – Contributing to the UN-GGIM Programme; Najib Benzouina, UN-GGIM: Arab States
• UN-GGIM Interregional collaboration – Contributing to the UN-GGIM Programme; Hitesh Kumar S Makwana, UN-GGIM Asia Pacific

• Decisions – coming soon
• List of participants – coming soon