Quality, comprehensive and accessible environmental information is a prerequisite for environmental protection and improvement. The collection of data is the responsibility of a number of institutions in the Ministry of Environment, which also have the obligation to publish and report relevant data and information to other national and international organisations. For usability reasons, it is necessary to ensure a uniform standard of data across institutions, to treat data ownership and to optimise data collection methodology. This issue and its solution is comprehensively covered by the new reporting system in the Ministry of the Environment.
The NERP project is to ensure the development of existing and the introduction of new information processes, procedures and activities related to the implementation of the new reporting system in the Ministry of the Environment. It aims to provide methodological and consultancy support to environmental data owners and to improve the national and international system to support environmental reporting and assessment using national and international standards.
Project identification:
- Project name: Optimization of the management system for the reception, validation, processing and reporting of datasets in the Ministry of Environment (NERP).
- Project registration number: CZ.03.4.74/0.0/0.0/15_025/0016059
- Project term: 1 June 2020 – 31 May 2023
- Operational Programme: Operational Programme Employment
- Financial framework of the project: Total 25 604 880 CZK
Key project activities:
- KA01: Development of a strategy and methodology for setting up processes to ensure the NERP system, including contracting with data owners (producers)
- KA02: Pilot testing of data processing, classification, categorisation and storage in a software tool for a defined number of data owners (producers) and datasets
- KA03: Development of management tools and pilot testing to determine readiness for routine use
- KA04: Organisation of promotional and educational conferences on NERP including publication and lecture activities – key activity to be addressed through the NERP team
- KA05: Organisation of NERP strategy and methodology training for data owners including methodological support – key activity to be addressed through the NERP team
- KA06: Data quality definition and management
Project website: https://nerp.cenia.cz/
Contact:
Miroslav Kukuc, miroslav.kukuc@cenia.cz
