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Belgium
| 21/3 | <h2>DAY 1</h2> |
| 21/3 08h30 | Registration and Poster Display Preparation |
| 21/3 09h30 | <b>OFFICIAL OPENING OF THE CONFERENCE</b> |
| 21/3 09h30. | Welcome by local host |
| 21/3 09h40. | Welcome by the IODE Co-Chairs |
| 21/3 10h00. | Address by Dr. W. Watson-Wright, ADG/IOC and Executive Secretary IOC |
| 21/3 10h15. | Address by Mr Dirk Van Melkebeke, Secretary-General, Department Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI) |
| 21/3 10h35 | <i>BREAK AND POSTERS</i> |
| 21/3 11h00. | Address by Jean-Pascal van Yperseele de Strihou, Vice-chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – (by videoconference) |
| 21/3 11h15. | IODE: 50 years of serving the global community (I. Oliounine) |
| 21/3 11h45 | <b>SESSION 1: Ocean Data Products and Services</b> |
| 21/3 11h45. | Paper 1.1: Is sea level rising along African Coasts? (A. Aman) |
| 21/3 12h00. | Paper 1.2: Application of the World Ocean Database to climate studies (S. Levitus) |
| 21/3 12h15. | Paper 1.3: EMODNET (J. Mees) |
| 21/3 12h30. | Paper 1.4: The Essential Climate Variables (ECV) Data Access Matrix (C. Lief) |
| 21/3 12h45. | Paper 1.5: Ocean Data Portal: Past, Present and Future (S. Belov) |
| 21/3 13h00 | <i>LUNCH + POSTERS</i> |
| 21/3 14h00. | Address by Minister Jean-Marc Nollet, Vice-Minister-President of Wallonia and the French Community, Walloon Minister for Sustainable Development and the Civil Service, Community Minister for Childhood, Research and the Civil Service |
| 21/3 14h15. | Paper 1.6: Oceanographic data, products and services offered by the National Oceanographic Data Centre – India (P. Rao) |
| 21/3 14h30. | Paper 1.7: Australia’s Interface to Open Access Marine Data. (G. Reed) |
| 21/3 14h45. | Paper 1.8: High-Resolution Water Level Data in Support of Tsunami Research (M. Gregg for K. Stroker) |
| 21/3 15h00. | Paper 1.9: SeaDataNet – pan-European infrastructure for ocean and marine data management, present state and relations to other initiatives, such as EMODNet (D. Schaap) |
| 21/3 15h15. | Paper 1.10: 170 years of oceanography in Belgium: Evolving needs, evolving means (S. Scory) |
| 21/3 15h30 | <i>BREAK + POSTERS</i> |
| 21/3 16h00. | DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 1 |
| 21/3 16h15 | <b>SESSION 2: Marine Information Products and Services</b> |
| 21/3 16h15. | Paper 2.1: AgriOcean Dspace (S. Dister) |
| 21/3 16h30. | Paper 2.2: Quelles contributions de l’IODE dans la mise en œuvre de plans de Communication dite « Grand Public » dans ses programmes de formation destinés aux institutions membres de Odinafrica , (I. Sakho) |
| 21/3 16h45. | Paper 2.3: Establishing open institutional repositories in Ukraine – achievements & perspectives (O. Akimova) |
| 21/3 17h00. | Paper 2.4: Open Access to Scientific Information (L. Pikula) |
| 21/3 17h15. | DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 2 |
| 21/3 17h30 | Group Photo |
| 21/3 18h30-21h00 | <b>Dinner at the Cloister of the Saint-Paul Cathedral (including IODE Achievement Award Ceremony)</b> |
| 22/3 | <h2>DAY 2</h2> |
| 22/3 09h00 | <b>SESSION 3: Benefits of IODE Training and Capacity Building</b> |
| 22/3 09h00. | Paper 3.1: Impact of IODE on establishment and capacity building of the Ukrainian NODC-Biology (V. Vladymyrov) |
| 22/3 09h15. | Paper 3.2: African Marine Atlas: an opportunity for Africa coastal management (F. Cuff) |
| 22/3 09h30. | Paper 3.3: Capacity Development for Marine Sciences in Africa (D. Masalu) |
| 22/3 09h45. | Paper 3.4: OceanTeacher: IODE’s Capacity Development Strategy for Marine Data and Information (G. Reed) |
| 22/3 10h00. | DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 3 |
| 22/3 10h30 | BREAK |
| 22/3 11h00 | <b>SESSION 4: Future perspectives</b> |
| 22/3 11h00. | Paper 4.1:Marine Knowledge 2020 (I. Shepherd) |
| 22/3 11h15. | Paper 4.2: Data Publication: a New Paradigm for IODE Data Management? (R. Lowry) |
| 22/3 11h30. | Paper 4.3: A Study on the Application of Distributed Database Management System (DDMS) at NIO (G. Reddy) |
| 22/3 11h45. | Paper 4.4: Developing the new ICSU World Data System (WDS) (L. Rickards) |
| 22/3 12h00. | Paper 4.5: OBIS (E. Vanden Berghe) |
| 22/3 12h15. | Paper 4.6: Marine Spatial Planning (C. Ehler) |
| 22/3 12h30. | DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS FOR SESSION 4 |
| 22/3 12h45 | LUNCH |
| 22/3 14h00 | <b>ROUNDTABLE: 50 years of IODE: Achievements, emerging requirements and future plans</b> |
| 22/3 14h15. | Introduction (S. Iona) |
| 22/3 14h30. | Discussions |
| 22/3 15h00 | BREAK |
| 22/3 15h30. | Address by Minister Sabine Laruelle, Minister for SMEs, the Self-Employed, Agriculture and Scientific Policy (Federal Government) |
| 22/3 15h45 | Closing remarks |
| 22/3 16h15 | <b>END OF CONFERENCE</b> |