[Medin_dacwg] FW: INSPIRE Call for Facilitators - Thematic Clusters Reminder

[Postlethwaite, Clare]

Apologies for any cross postings...

Dear MEDIN DAC Working group,

I have just been alerted to the INSPIRE Call for Facilitators for Thematic Clusters. Are any of you already involved with this? It would be good to have some MEDIN involvement and I was wondering if you or anyone from your organisations would be interested. (The deadline has passed but we have been granted an extension to COB Friday 26th if we would like to suggest someone). It sounds as if they are after people who are already actively involved in INSPIRE activities.

It involves ~30 days work over 1 year and 2 workshops (the first in Italy at the Beginning of October??) and the application needs to be accompanied by a supporting letter from the applicant's employer. A summary of the requirements are below.

The candidates for INSPIRE thematic cluster facilitators are required to have:
• good general knowledge of INSPIRE, especially the INSPIRE data specifications; • experience in (international) community building & facilitation; • thematic / domain expertise for the data themes relevant to the cluster.
Apart from the experience listed above, involvement in the following activities will be an advantage:
• Development of the legal and technical framework of INSPIRE:
o former members of either the INSPIRE Thematic Working Groups for data specifications or members of the Data specification Drafting Team; o involvement in drafting the TGs of other INSPIRE components (Metadata, Network Services, Monitoring Reporting and Data sharing).
• Implementation of INSPIRE in the thematic domains / Member States:
o direct involvement in the implementation of INSPIRE in a thematic domain; o direct involvement in the implementation of INSPIRE at the national level (e.g. a member of the national coordination body).
• Participation in relevant EU-funded projects or EU-wide thematic activities (e.g. EU thematic expert groups, EU thematic umbrella organisations, research projects supporting INSPIRE implementation in more than one country etc.).
• Good level of experience of using on-line collaboration tools (such as open fora, wikis, issue tracking systems etc.).


The form for submitting candidates is available at   http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/5280/surls/998989465432

The full details of the call are available on the INSPIRE site http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/pageid/5160/list/thcl


I'd appreciate your thoughts.
Cheers,
Clare

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