The Regional Activity Centre for Information and Communication was established in 2005 by the decision of the 14th Meeting of the Contracting Parties, thus substituting the Regional Activity Centre on Environment Remote Sensing (ERS/RAC) that was approved as MAP Regional Activity Centre by the 8th Meeting of the Contracting Parties in 1993.

The InfoMap System is the UN Mediterranean platform conceived to provide and share data, information services and knowledge for the benefit of the Mediterranean Action Plan components and Contracting Parties. It is also  able to support the Mediterranean Quality Status and the State of Environment Report.

Its scope is to provide access to Reporting system; harmonise data structure and models; create a common catalogue of resources; integrate data with interoperability layer; create a common platform to view, query and analyse data; produce tools to support data & Information dissemination.

The InfoMap System is composed by:

  • Data Centre
  • BCRS Reporting
  • NBB Reporting
  • KMAP Knowledge Management Platform
  • IMAP Info System 
  • MedLearn • e-learning 

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