Unlocking Border Management with Authoritative Spatial Data – joint EuroGeographics/Frontex webinar
| 05 October 2023
The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), supports EU Member States and Schengen-associated countries in the management of the EU’s external borders and the fight against cross-border crime. Frontex is a center of excellence for border control activities at the EU’s external borders, sharing intelligence and expertise with all Member States and with neighboring non-EU countries affected by migratory trends and cross-border crime.
This webinar aimed to tackle how spatial data supports border management and featured a presentation from Frontex.
The agenda of this webinar was as follows:
Programme
| Presenter | Presentation | |
|---|---|---|
| EuroGeographics | Welcome & Introduction | |
| Catarina Clemente, Senior GIS Expert and Team Leader at Frontex, the European Commission | Frontex GIS applications in support of the European Border and Coast Guard | Download |
| Lt. Col. Topi Räsänen, Border Security Expert from the Finnish Border Guard, Ministry of the Interior | Geospatial data and Border management | Download |
| Guillaume Le Sourd, Geospatial Information Section, United Nations: "The importance of common geographies for boundary information | Video Message https://youtu.be/rK1GJpiL3U4 | |
| EuroGeographics | Q&A session via SLI.do & closing |