IRIS Europe II

Project acronym:
IRIS Europe II

Project name:
Project of common interest of implementation of harmonised River Information Services (RIS) in the area of inland waterway networks on the Slovak stretch of Danube – IRIS Europe II.

Project duration:
January 2009 – December 2011

Programme:
Project is co-financed by the European Union from the TEN-T Programme budget.
The beneficiaries are ministries of transport of 9 European countries. Slovak beneficiary is Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications of the Slovak Republic. The project is executed by the Consortium of companies consisting of Research Transport Institute (VUD, a.s.) and company KIOS s.r.o.

Project objective:
IRIS Europe II is the continuation of the IRIS Europe project (01/2006 – 12/2008). It continues in expansion and enhancement of RIS within an extended geographical and functional scope. IRIS Europe II will contribute to establish safe, secure and efficient transport on the European waterway network bringing advantages to governmental users as well as users in the logistics sector.

KIOS tasks:
KIOS, s.r.o. is responsible for realization of following sub-workpackages of the project in Slovak Republic:

Sub-Activity 1.3: Enhanced Notices to Skippers
Sub-Activity 1.4: Wireless RIS Services for fairway users based    upon wireless broadband technologies
Sub-Activity 1.5: Pilot implementation of national Reference Data Management Systems
Sub-Activity 2.1: Standardisation
Sub-Activity 2.5: Calamity Abatement Service
Sub-Activity 2.7: Advanced Services for governmental and logistics RIS users
Sub-Activity 3.1.1: Advanced services for international data exchange based upon the Technical and Administrative Agreement (TAA)
Sub-Activity 3.1.2: Advanced services resulting for maritime navigation, in particular seaports based upon the Technical and Administrative Agreement(TAA)
Sub-Activity 3.2: Pilot implementation of interconnection with European Services
Sub-Activity 3.3: Maintenance of legal provisions of the Technical and AdministrativeAgreement (TAA)
Sub-Activity 3.4: Maintenance of the functional and technical provisions of the TAA including Quality of Information Service (QoIS)
Sub-Activity 4.1: Definition of Quality of Information Services in the RIS Context
Sub-Activity 4.2: Pilot implementation of Quality of Information Services for Notices to Skippers
Sub-Activity 4.3: Pilot implementation of Quality of Information Services for Electronic Reporting
Sub-Activity 4.4: Pilot implementation of Quality of Information Services for national RIS Indices
Sub-Activity 4.5: Pilot implementation of Quality of Information Services for Vessel Tracking and Tracing  

Project web site:
www.iris-europe.net