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AGILE its aims, status, and activities 5th EC
GIS Workshop GIS of Tomorrow
Fred Toppen (University of Utrecht, The
Netherlands) June 30, 1999 Stresa, Italy
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• Aim
• Organisational structure
• (membership)
• Partnerships
• Research initiatives
• Conferences

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• Official launch in April 1998 at the 1st
• AGILE conference in Enschede,
• Netherlands
• Mission
• to promote academic teaching and research on GIS
  at the European level
• to facilitate networking activities between
  geographic information laboratories at the
  European level

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• Why?
• To continue the networking activities that
• have emerged as a result of several
• (past) European activities (like the
• EGIS/JEC conferences, GISDATA
• programme) and
• To create a forum representing the
• European research community
• How?
• By way of creating a permanent scientific
• forum where researchers/teachers can meet

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• Association as legal form
• About members
• research groups (laboratories), not individuals
• 50 founder members (1998)
• 10 new members (1999)
• 21 (European) countries
• Affiliated members
• non-academic research groups (e.g. private
• sector) same rights but no voting right

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• How to become a member?
• Fill in the form
• Pay the yearly fee of EURO 150
• ( an introductory fee of EURO 100)
• How to become an affiliated member?
• Contact AGILE secretariat for a special form
• Pay the yearly fee of EURO 150
• ( an introductory fee of EURO 100)

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• Why should you become a member?
• Reduced fees at conferences
• Nominate council members
• Actively participate in research networks that
  has
• been built up over the years
• Join AGILE working groups
• Influence the European geographic information
• research agenda

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The AGILE Council, members (1/6/99) Ian
Masser (ITC, Netherlands) (chairman until July
1st) Mauro Salvemini (Univ. of Rome La
Sapienze, Italy) (chairman from July
1st) Max Craglia (Univ. of Sheffield, U.K.)
(research agenda) Michael Gould (Univ. Jaume
I, Valencia, Spain) (web-editor) Werner Kuhn
(Univ. of Muenster, Germany) (research agenda)
Anders Ostman (Lulea Univ. of Technology,
Sweden) (conference programme committee)
Tapani Sarkakoski (Finnish Geodetic Inst.,
Masala, Finland) (2000 conference)
Fred Toppen (Univ. of Utrecht, Netherlands)
(secretary/treasurer)
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• MOUs with other organisations (connecting
• networks)
• January 1999 UCGIS MOU
• April 1999 UNIGIS MOU
• July 1999 GISIG MOU
• others to be negotiated
• European GI debate
• Participation in EU- DGIII and DGXIII meetings
• AGILE response with respect to Green Paper on
  Public
• participation

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• European research activities
• Members involved in more than 100 EU projects
• Accompanying measures ETeMII proposal within
• 5FP (European Territorial Management
  Information
• Infrastructure)
• Working groups
• four established working groups several in
• process
• relates to AGILE research agenda

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What is the AGILE Research Agenda ?

• an evolving structure (not a one time shot)
• an agenda that is pursued
• a common effort of all AGILE members
• for public use and comment
• a European tool for research and debating

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Research Agenda status

• Research Map of Europe
• Directory of Research themes and topics
• Some information about labs

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Interactive research map
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Info from members on research
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• AGILE CONFERENES
• 1998 - Enschede, 1st Conference , the
  foundation
• (themes dynamic modelling data quality GI-
• infrastructures interoperability)
• 1999 - Rome , 2nd Conference
• (theme userfriendly information)
• 2000 - Helsinki, 3rd Conference
• 2001 - several offers to choose from
• General format
• plenary sessions
• limited number of parallel sessions
• young researchers forum

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AGILE 2000 conference
May 25th-27th, Helsinki/Espoo, Finland
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• AGILE 2000 conference
• Time schedule
• September 1999 call for papers
• end November abstracts to be sent in
• early January abstracts reviewed
• mid April abstracts ready for
  printing
• 27th-27th May conference
• End June full papers on Web
• Organized by
• Finnish Geodetic Institute
• website http//www.fgi.fi/agile2000

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• Major theme is GI research
• Bringing together the European GI research
  community
• Subthemes will partly relate to working
• group themes such as
• environmental modelling and planning
• GI education
• interoperability
• data usability
• and to other themes on the AGILE research agenda

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• To conclude
• AGILE is developing
• No. of membership will (and should) grow
• Organisational structure will mature
• Research agenda will be a prime tool for
  networking
• Yearly conference is only one way to meet other
  
• options (dedicated meetings via
  Internet/email) are
• possible as well
• More information contact AGILE secretariat or
  the
• web-site (www.uniroma1.it/DICEA/AGILE.htm
• will change into www.AGILE-Europe.org soon)

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So, why not join AGILE ?