This Accompanying Measure aims organising a network of excellence, bringing together most of the stakeholders of the territorial management; a particular attention will be paid on user's needs. It will have to build a consensus on the technical issues that are the foundation of ETeMII: reference data, data access policy interoperability, standard implementation integration of space tools: GNSS, EO and telecomactive participation to global initiatives: OGC, ISO, GSDI, ...

Awareness activity is an important component of the Accompanying Measure, promoting contribution to European Geographic Information Infrastructure, using metadata services, implementing standards, using reference data.

Reference data: The objective is to reach a European and global (GSDI) technical consensus on the definition of reference data and making them available, at affordable cost.

Metadata: through workshops, awareness activities, the aim is to build upon existing initiatives, to reach some consensus on the way to meet user's needs, and to remove barriers to data access. It is important to enable searching of any kind of information with a single tool. A particular focus will be given to semantics and the use of multiple interoperable thesauri to record the multi-cultural and multi-lingual characteristics of the European Information Society.

Standards and interoperability: the work will be based on seeking interoperability standards requirements, and offering awareness on existing very extensive but possibly incomplete interoperability standards activities to target. At the same time it will ensure that there are new observation windows between pure research activities and standards development.

The three thematic work package follow the same phases:
1.User requirements
2.Solutions analysis
3.Plans for future actions
4.Raising awareness and communication to the users community; technical forum, co-ordination with CEEC, and GSDI.