SWITCH-ON Opening Europe to the World to Achieve Sustainability (2024)

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Lorna Little et. al. 2017: SWITCH-ON Opening Europe to the world to achieve sustainability. SWITCH-ON Policy Brief No.4.

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This policy brief illustrates how SWITCH-ON supports globally-connected science, digital innovation, and the use of open data to help citizens, governments, and businesses in Europe and across the globe move towards a sustainable future. It shows how the 14 SWITCH-ON products are closely aligned to the SDGs by addressing several EU environmental policy objectives. The SWITCH-ON Policy Brief No.4 is available for download.

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Event:Workshop

The SWITCH-ON workshop brought together developers and end-users of a variety of open data based water information products from all over Europe to test these tools hands-on and to discuss their opportunities and challenges. The goal of the 1.5-day workshop was to identify the potential and operational needs of water-related information tools and services based on open data. SWITCH-ON develops state-of-the-art information products and services for water management and environmental awareness.

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Project:FP 7

Water touches virtually all societal and environmental domains. The knowledge domain is largely multidisciplinary. New water information and knowledge can thus lead to more efficient use of environmental services and better handling of environmental problems, including those posed by climate and environmental change.The project SWITCH-ON explores and exploits the currently untapped potential of open environmental data to address water issues. Water information is of interest to many kinds of end-users, both within government and business as well as within civil society. SWITCH-ON will show the benefits achieved through the whole process chain. The project aims at re-purposing (re-using under different context) open data products into more water-dedicated and refined products. Those are considered to have high value and a broad impact on society.

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Language

English

Authorship

Gerardo Anzaldúa

Hugh McDonald

Lorna Little (SMHI)

Berit Arheimer (SMHI)

Lotta Andersson (Linköping University)

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with contributions from the SWITCH-ON consortium
Layout: Beáta Vargová

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Sharing Water-related Information to Tackle CHanges in the Hydrosphere – for Operational Needs (SWITCH-ON)

Project ID

2732

Table of contents

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SWITCH-ON: driving innovation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals
From Europe to the world: Supporting achievement for the SDGs through implementation of EU environment policy
SWITCH-ON: Opening the EU to the world
Further Information
Acknowledgment & disclaimer
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Keywords

EU

Water

Open data, water, global change, application (apps), research, GIS, Policy analysis, SDGs, 2030 Agenda

Europe, Global

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