A strong synergy between GENESIS and other relevant projects will be established. This synergy provides a two-fold advantage:

• An advantage in term of GENESIS exploitation plan : to maximize the future range of application that can be covered by GENESIS, it is important to guarantee that the GENESIS concepts and strategy are compatible with the ones considered by other main European projects : this does not require reuse of other projects components, but only compatibility in term of approach, in term of requirements, and standards. Identification of the effective contribution from GENESIS in shaping further the SISE concept (Single Information Space in Europe for the Environment) ; identification of programmatic issues, necessary funding and lobbying actions towards decision makers and stake holders.
• An advantage in term of GENESIS development plan : the know-how related to the previous projects (concepts, architecture, design or software components) helps to go quicker and safer to an efficient architecture, system design and implementation of the solution

Synergy with INSPIRE, SEIS and GEO/GEOSS

Environment monitoring domain is continuously developing and many projects/programmes/policies are launched every year to structure and support this development notably by European and International institutions in the frame of INSPIRE (EU spatial data infrastructure directive) , SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System) and GEO/GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems)
GENESIS has the ambition to have a real impact on this moving and complex landscape, in particular by actively participating in activities related to the ICT (e.g. architecture, standards, new technologies).
Therefore it is essential for GENESIS project to understand the scope and the outcome of the recent initiatives launched in the Environment monitoring domain and also to promote the dissemination and the use of its results in these initiatives whenever appropriate. The following figure provides an overview of possible collaborations :

The JRC-IES, which is already strongly involved in many of these initiatives, will follow their development, will whenever possible influence their implementation plan for taking into account potential impact of GENESIS solution, will identify opportunities for GENESIS software deployment and will facilitate GENESIS participation in European and International pilots/initiatives.
Promising opportunities for collaboration have already been identified. Among these, one can mention :

• Collaboration with GIGAS (GEOSS, INSPIRE and GMES an Action in Support) in expressing Architecture Requirements, adopting GIGAS recommendations about standards to be used, testing their applicability and providing feedbacks to GIGAS for further fine tuning. A joint GIGAS-GENESIS Workshop (www.thegigasforum.eu/workshops/inspire-2010.html) was organised at the occasion of the INSPIRE 2010 Conference.  More information on the GENESIS-GIGAS collaboration can be found within the GIGAS Final Report (http://www.thegigasforum.eu/cgi-bin/download.pl?f=530.pdf)

• Collaboration with NESIS (Network to enhance a European environmenal Shared and Interoperable Information System) to promote the use of GENESIS software (models/services/tools) when appropriate and to investigate the possibility to deploy GENESIS technologies to EIONET members
• Collaboration with GEOSS to propose GENESIS services as future components for the GEOSS architecture .
• Collaboration with GEOSS to propose a new Health task in GEOSS work program or complement to an existing task, allowing to promote the GENESIS Air Quality pilot, focusing on the impact of Air Quality on the health (downstream service aspect, not yet covered by any of existing GMES projects presented to GEOSS).
• Collaboration with SEIS to influence SEIS implementation plan in order to deploy GENESIS services in SEIS pilots. The JRC/DG ENV study for SEIS Environmental Monitoring Facilities (EMF) will develop a the metadata and data specifications for EMF that will be used by INSPIRE as reference material to develop the implementing rules for this data theme (mentioned in Annex III of the Directive). The outcome of this project could be directly adopted by GENESIS for its services. This should facilitate the use of GENESIS services within the SEIS pilots implementation (e.g. SEIS pilot about CAF services).

Within the GENESIS Service Oriented Architecture, the services are deployed using the SOAP protocol bindings to enable service orchestration by a central workflow controller and a common authentication and authorisation mechanism. SOAP bindings have been specified and developed for its Web Processing and Data Access Services. More information on these SOAP Bindings and other proposed evolutions to Open Standards can be found within the GENESIS Report on Standards: http://www.genesis-fp7.eu/images/publications/techintegration/genesis_d6100.5_pu_spb_report_on_standards_v1%2000.pdf