CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATAOther experts: Dr.Maris Alberts, Peteris Bruns.PARTNER 7: SLOVAK ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY – SEA (SLOVAKIA)Partner description:The Slovak Environmental Agency (SEA) is a pr<strong>of</strong>essional organization <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> theEnvironment <strong>of</strong> the Slovak Republic (MoE SR) with nationwide scope <strong>of</strong> powers, which focuses onthe environment protection and landscape planning in accordance with the principles <strong>of</strong> sustainabledevelopment.SEA was established by the Decision <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Environment <strong>of</strong> the Slovak Republic <strong>of</strong> 17May 1993 as an agency <strong>of</strong> the Ministry <strong>of</strong> the Environment <strong>of</strong> the SR fully funded from the statebudget. Since 1 January 2001 it has been operating as a subsidized organisation receivingcontributions from MoE SR. In 2005 SEA was awarded the Quality Management System Certificateand the Environmental Management System Certificate in accordance with ISO 9001 and 14001standards.SEA provides the Ministry <strong>of</strong> Environment with expert and supporting documentation for draftstrategies, concepts, programmes and legal regulations; moreover it coordinates activities, holdsconferences, seminars, trainings, exhibitions and other events, compiles plans and assesses theirfulfilment, prepares or procures projects, standpoints, expert opinions, information and documents,provides pr<strong>of</strong>essional supervision over application <strong>of</strong> environmental legal regulations and expertactivities focused on fulfilment <strong>of</strong> commitments <strong>of</strong> the Slovak Republic resulting from internationalconventions, provides the Ministry with expert assistance in the harmonization <strong>of</strong> environmentallegislation <strong>of</strong> the Slovak Republic with regulations and procedures <strong>of</strong> the European Union andcooperates with concerned expert institutions in the Slovak Republic and abroad.Key staff CVs:Jan Tobik holds Dipl. Ing. in forestry with specialisation in forest cableways from the TechnicalUniversity in Zvolen. He has had more than 7 years <strong>of</strong> experiences in Geographical InformationSystems. He has been involved in CORINE Land Cover programme <strong>of</strong> Slovakia since 2005. His maindomains <strong>of</strong> interest are system administration <strong>of</strong> Metadata systems, implementation <strong>of</strong> INSPIREdirective in Slovak Republic, network services, open source projects and GIS applications.Nada Machkova holds MSc. in Geodesy and Cartography with specialisation in astronomicalgeodesy from the Slovak Technical University in Bratislava. She has more than 20 years <strong>of</strong>experiences in spatial data integration, visual interpretation and digital processing <strong>of</strong> satellite imagery,thematic mapping and spatial data processing and analysis within GIS environment. She is involved inCORINE Land Cover programme in Slovakia since 1998. Her main domains <strong>of</strong> interest are systemadministration <strong>of</strong> unix servers, network services, open source projects, implementation <strong>of</strong> satellitedatasets in environmental GIS applications.Peter Mozolík holds university degree in information science and ecology from University MatejaBela in Banská Bystrica. At university he specialized in XML technologies - XML, XSLT, XQUERY,XPATH etc.. After he graduated, he was employed in Slovak environmental agency as web developerand system analyst. He participated in IT projects concerning water qaulity management as systemanalyst preparing UML documentation. His main domain <strong>of</strong> interest are web technologies especialyXML technologies, system analysis - UML documentation, system integration, implementation <strong>of</strong>OGC standards.Jan Cimerman holds MSc. in Mechanical engineering with specialisation in instrumentation,regulatory and automation technology at the Technical University in Kosice. He has 20 years <strong>of</strong>23/03/10 v11 42
CIP-ICT PSP-2009-3Pilot BHLANDATAexperiences as analyst and programmer in information systems, mostly he participated at developingback-<strong>of</strong>fice logic by SQL language. He is member <strong>of</strong> INSPIRE work group at SEA (SlovakEnviromental Agency). At present he works as developer at environmental GIS applications usingArcIMS/ArcGIS server.Martin Koska holds MSc. in Forestry with specialisation in forest mapping and cadastre at theTechnical University in Zvolen. He has several years <strong>of</strong> experiences as GIS specialist, OGC services –WMS, WFS specialist. Now he works GIS server administrator (ArcIMS, ArcGIS), key expert in SDI(metadata, data specification, webmap services) development and implementation, participant atNATURESDIplus, member <strong>of</strong> task force group for NESIS, member <strong>of</strong> INSPIRE national level workgroup, project team manager.Miroslav Rolko holds MSc. in Informatics with specialisation in applied mathematics at the TechnicalUniversity in Zilina. He has several years <strong>of</strong> experiences as developer <strong>of</strong> discrete simulation systems.He has been participating at developing enviromental information system implementing directive96/82/ES (SEVESO II). At present he works as developer <strong>of</strong> environmental GIS applications usingArcIMS/ArcGIS server.PARTNER 8: CEIT ALANOVA (AUSTRIA)Partner description:CEIT ALANOVA is an applied research institute dealing with the future <strong>of</strong> cities & regions. CEITALANOVA acts in close cooperation with public administrations, companies and R&D institutions, tosupport and ensure the flow <strong>of</strong> knowledge between research and practical application. The teamconsists <strong>of</strong> urban planners, geographers & technicians. The main fields <strong>of</strong> activity are:• Urban-, Environmental- and Transport Technologies• Urban Planning and Regional Development, Urban Development in Information andKnowledge Society• “Cities for everybody”, “Healthy Cities”, “Smart, sustainable and integrative cities”• Urban Sustainability and Resource Management• Geographic Information Technologies and Spatial Scientific ManagementCEIT ALANOVA has been involved in several reference projects and contracts within its field <strong>of</strong>study, such as:• CORP - Competence Centre <strong>of</strong> Urban and Regional Planning – Association for Support andResearch in the fields <strong>of</strong> City Planning and Regional Development in the Information Society• CentropeMAP (ongoing)• ePSIplus (ongoing)• Traffic concept Schwechat (ongoing)• ÖROK-Scenarios 2030 – Spatial development scenarios for Austria• AIRCLIP - AIRports and CLImate Protection (finished beginning <strong>of</strong> 2009)• Ways2Go – Bus Stop 3.0 (started end <strong>of</strong> 2008)• Plan4all - European Network <strong>of</strong> Best Practices for Interoperability <strong>of</strong> Spatial PlanningInformation (started May 2009)Key staff CVs:Manfred Schrenk, Engineer, Managing director <strong>of</strong> CEIT ALANOVA, holds a MSc. in SpatialPlanning and Regional Science and has been working in numerous projects on urban and transportplanning and GIS. Vice President <strong>of</strong> ISoCaRP - International Society <strong>of</strong> City and Regional Planners,Board Member <strong>of</strong> the ÖGR – Austrian Spatial Planning Society , Vice President <strong>of</strong> AGEO – AustrianUmbrella Organisation for Geo-Information , Founder and Director <strong>of</strong> the CORP – CompetenceCentre for Urban and Regional Planning.23/03/10 v11 43