Twelfth Plenary Meeting UN-GGIM: Europe

The meeting took place in Brussels, Belgium the 24 – 25 June 2025.  

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Papers

• Draft agenda (20/06/2025)
• Revised UN-GGIM: Europe Strategy 2025-2030
• Report on implementing the UN-GGIM: Europe work plan 2025
• UN-IGIF Europe - detailed report
• UN-GGIM Data Integration - now approaches of the development of future activities
• UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat Report 2025
• Participants list

Session 2: Implementing the UN-GGIM agenda to Europe

• UN-GGIM: Europe - report - Carol Agius, UN-GGIM: Europe Secretariat

Session 3: National Show Cases

• Armenia's Journey Towards National Spatial Data Infrastructure - Nane Ghazaryan, Armenia
• A global (virtual) hub for Effective Land Administration - Paula Dijkstra, The Netherlands

Session 4: The Global UN-GGIM Architecture

• The UN-GGIM Strategic Framework - Ingrid Vanden Berghe, Co-Chair UN-GGIM
• UN-GGIM Centers of Excellence - Paul Becker, Germany
• UN-GGIM: Private Sector Network - Update - Sheik Mohamed Zaffar Sadiq Mohamed Ghouse, Chair UN-GGIM PSN

Session 5: UN-GGIM: Europe Strategy

• UN-GGIM - update - Nicholas J. Brown, UN-GGCE

Session 6: Resilience - operating context

• Policy Frameworks - Ton Zijlstra, Geonovum
• Future Geospatial Information Ecosystem - Clinton Heimann, Chair UN-GGIM Africa & co-Conventor of Future Geospatial Information Ecosystem Writing Team

Session 7: Resilience - solutions to global challenges

• Climate crisis - Dr. Nils Borland, CERAC
• A resilient GNSS - Nicholas J. Brown, UN-GGCE

Session 8: Resilience - data we trust

• Trusted data - statistics - Marta Nagy Rothengass, Eurostat
• Trusted data - geospatial data - Sallie Payne Snell, EuroGeographics
• Integrating Geospatial and Statistical Data - Olive Powell, Co-Chair of Expert Group on ISGI