This year's INSPIRE Conference will be held in Istanbul, Turkey on 23-27 June, 2012.The European Union’s INSPIRE directive aims at creating a European Union spatial data infrastructure (SDI). This will enable the sharing of environmental spatial information among public sector organisations and better facilitate public access to spatial information across Europe. The INSPIRATION team will participate in the conference.  The team will present the status of project activities in a workshop on EU enlargement on 27 June, 2012 at 14:30. 

The First National Workshop of the INSPIRATION project will take place in Belgrade, Serbia on
13-14 June, 2012. The main topics will be a general overview of the INSPIRE Directive and the status of the national SDI/INSPIRE implementation in Serbia. Aside from presentations on the approach and first results of the project’s Activities 1, 2 and 3 there will be further discussions on the national Implementation of the INSPIRE Directive in Slovakia  and Austria as well as the European Initiatives for SDI and Earth Observation, GeoBalkanNet  - Balkan in the Earth Observation etc.

The first regional event of the INSPIRATION project is going to take place in Banja Luka, Bosnia-Herzegovina from 5-8 June, 2012. The first two days, 5-6 June, will be dedicated to the first training on the implementation of the INSPIRE directive. This training will focus on providing data and includes speakers from Austria, Croatia, Germany and Slovakia. On 7-8 June, the Fifth Regional Conference on Cadastre and Spatial Data Infrastructure will be held. This conference is organized by the Permanent Regional Technical Commission whose members are National Mapping and Cadastre Authorities, and is supported by the INSPIRATION project.