OneGeology

The next meeting of the Operational Management Group will take place on Monday 23rd August 2010 at the:

Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology under the umbrella of Minister Bruederle,
Scharnhorststr. 34-37
10115 Berlin (Berlin Centre)
Germany

Getting to the Berlin meeting location:

Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, Scharnhorststr. 34-37 10115 Berlin (Berlin Centre), Germany

• Using Public Transport: Bus: 120, 240, 245, 123, 147 (Invalidenpark) Underground train: U6 (Naturkundemuseum), U55 (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) S-Bahn city train: S3, S5, S7, S75 (Berlin Hauptbahnhof) By rail: via Hauptbahnhof or Ostbahnhof.
• Traffic Links fromTegel Airport: JetExpressBus TXL via Hauptbahnhof
• Map of directions to the BMWi Berlin

Hotels

There are many Hotel recommendations for Berlin city centre of varying prices but the hotels in the list below are near the Ministry (Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology), max. 500m. For the first two hotels we have blocked some rooms with fixed prices. Please book your room individually but you need a booking code. To get this booking code for the blocked contingent, please contact Susanna.Koesterke@bgr.de or Chris.Schubert@bgr.de before 26. July 2010. These are the hotels:

• Adina Apartment Hotel Berlin, Platz vor dem Neuen Tor 6, 10115 Berlin [78.00 € / p. n. for a single room, 88.00 € for a double room p. n. inclusive breakfast]
• Hotel Gates Berlin City East, Invalidenstraße 98, 10115 Berlin [80.00 € / p. n. for a single room, 100.00 € for a double room p. n. inclusive breakfast]
• Mikon Eastgate Hotel, Hessische Straße 10, 10115 Berlin [circa 75 EUR]
• Mercure Hotel Berlin An Der Charite, Invalidenstrasse 38, 10115 Berlin [circa 75 EUR]
• HSH Hotel Apartments Mitte, Invalidenstraße 32-33, 10115 Berlin [circa 75 - 100 EUR]
• RAMADA Hotel Berlin-Mitte, Chausseestraße 118,10115 Berlin [circa 95 EUR]
• Hotel Adelante, Borsigstraße 1, 10115 Berlin [circa 75 EUR]

Low Budget hotels:

• Hotel Berlin Mitte, Habersaathstraße 40a-42, 10115 Berlin [circa 40 - 60 EUR]
• A&O Berlin Hauptbahnhof, Lehrter Straße 12-15, 10557 Berlin [circa 20 - 60 EUR]
• baxpax downtown Hostel, Ziegelstraße 28, 10117 Berlin [circa 10 - 50 EUR]

The "Asociacion de los Servicios de Geología y Minería Iberomaericanos" (ASMGI) has agreed that the Servicio Geológico Minero Argentino (SEGEMAR) would host the 2009 OneGeology Operational Management Meeting on Thursday July 2 and Friday July 3 in Buenos Aires.

• Agenda
• Papers
• OneGeology - Un nuevo mapa geológico de La Tierra
  An article about the meeting was published. You will find it at page 4 of Newsletter IDE Iberoamérica.
• Minutes

The 3rd meeting of the Operational Management Group was held on the 14th August at the IGC, Oslo.

• Agenda
• Minutes

21 European geological surveys have submitted a 3.25€ million OneGeology-Europe proposal to the EC for funding under the eContentplus programme. The proposal has received a very positive technical and scientific evaluation and subject to negotiations to take place in Luxembourg on 10th April, is looking likely to be funded. The project could start as early as June 2008.

The meeting was attended by 17 participants and included discussion and action on the following topics: funding and support, communication and website, organisation, governance, roles and responsibilities, and planning for the 33rd IGC.

Why did we choose to hold the OneGeology meeting at the Place de la République?

• Liberty, Equality, Fraternity is the motto of the French Republic
• What about OneGeology?
• Liberty to access geologic maps,
• Equality of all participants in the initiative,
• Fraternity through the Buddy system,
• ... and Interoperability

Liberté	Egalité	Fraternité	Interopérabilité

• Draft agenda
• Participants list
• Final notes and actions

Eleven directors of Commonwealth geological surveys met at BGS in Keyworth. As part of their visit they were given a presentation on OneGeology. As a result several new nations are now participating in OneGeology.

The kick-off meeting introduced the outline of the OneGeology Initiative and discussed how to organize the project among the CCOP Member Countries.
The meeting was held at the Geological Survey of Japan, Tsukuba, Japan.
(CCOP = Coordinating Committee for Geoscience Programmes in East and Southeast Asia)

• Meeting summary

The meeting was attended by 21 representatives from many nations and was highly successful. Discussions encompassed a number of key issues including:

• obtaining funding
• strategies for technical and practical assistance where needed
• intellectual property rights
• communication.

All presentations and documents from the meeting can be accessed from the downloads page.

• The meeting agenda.
• The actions and decisions.

The kick-off meeting was held on the 12–16 March 2007, where 81 geoscientists from 43 countries across the world gathered to consider a proposition – would they be prepared to collaborate to create a global geological map dataset? See the 'how will we do it?' pages for more information.