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Title
International cooperation and technology transfer
Author
Fras, Mojca Kosmatin

141
scientific and technological committees: Centres of
Excellence Physics of Matter, Technology Transfer Centre,
Earth Science, Experimental Mechanics, Meteorology,
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Space, Industrial Technologies
and Automation, Parallel Computing.
The paper contains some new actions and evident
achievements gained by the realisation of the programme of
international cooperation within the CEI WGST Section C
"Geodesy". In particular, the paper will outline the results and
future plans of international cooperation in the following
areas:
• Project CERGOP (Central Europe Regional
Geodynamics Project);
• Programme EXTENDED SAGET (Satellite
Geodynamical Traverses);
• Project UNIGRACE (Unification of Gravity Systems in
Central and Eastern Europe);
• Project UNIHIP (Unified National High Precision
GPS Networks in Central Europe);
• Working Group on University Education Standards;
• Working Group on Satellite Navigation Systems;
• Cooperation between CEI Section C "Geodesy" and EGS
’(European Geophysical Society) Section "Geodesy";
• Cooperation links between CEI Section C "Geodesy" and
IAG (International Association of Geodesy).
Subcommission IAG "Geodetic and Geodynamic
Programmes of the Central European Initiative (CEI)"
2. PROJECT CERGOP (CENTRAL EUROPE
REGIONAL GEODYNAMICS PROJECT)
The main objectives of the project are: to integrate the
geodynamic research in the Central European region based on
high accuracy space geodetic measurements, to investigate the
most profound geotectonic features in the Central European
region, the Teisseyre-Tornquist zone, the Carpathians, the
Bohemian Massif, the Pannonian Basin and the Alpine-Adria
region as well as to provide a stable Central European GPS
Reference Network (CEGRN) for sub-regional, local or across
the borders investigations and deformation studies. The first
phase of the Project was concluded on 30 June 1998 and now
the second phase of the Project is being realised. The
following 11 countries joined the first phase of the Project in
1994: Austria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, Italy, Romania, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and
Ukraine. As associated country Bulgaria joined the project in
1996. The Project is headed by Hungary (Istvan Fejes) and
Poland (Janusz Slcdzinski).
Since 1994 four epoch monitoring satellite GPS (Global
Positioning System) campaigns of the first phase of the
Project have been carried out on this network in yearly
intervals (in 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997). In 1999 the first
campaign of the second phase of the Project was organised
and successfully performed. The CERGOP Data Center was
established in 1994 and is hosted by the Observatory
Lustbuhel, Graz, Austria. The satellite observational data of
the CEGRN monitoring campaigns were processed in the
CERGOP Processing Centres. Originally 3 processing groups
were formed in Graz, Austria; Penc, Hungary and Warsaw,
Poland. In a later stage of the project the number of
processing centers increased to 8 by organising further centres
in Bratislava, Slovakia; Frankfurt, Germany; Matera, Italy;
Pecny, Czech Republic and Zagreb, Croatia. A major
development of the project was the establishment of CERGOP
Study Groups (CSGs). The groups were formed by the
collaboration of scientists from two or more member countries
to carry out research in a particular field. Nine CERGOP
Study Groups remained active during the whole project
period. The CERGOP Study Groups established for the
second phase of the Project are given in the a table below.
The project participants have met regularly at the semi-annual
CERGOP Working Conferences. The proceedings of these
conferences were published in REPORTS ON GEODESY by
the Warsaw University of Technology, generally within 3
months following the conference, which can be considered as
exemplary. The scientific results of the project were mainly
presented at the bi-annual International Seminar on „GPS in
Central Europe”, organised by the FÖMI Satellite Geodetic
Observatory, Penc, in Hungary. The proceedings of these
conferences were also published in the REPORTS ON
GEODESY series.
The first phase of the Project CERGOP was partially
supported financially from the Programme COPERNICUS of
the European Commission. As the Coordinator served Institut
für Angewandte Geodäsie (now Bundesamt für Kartografie
und Geodäsie), Frankfurt/Main/Germany. Lately the proposal
for the second phase of the Project CERGOP-2 was submitted
to the European Commission with the request for financial
support from the 5th Framework EU Programme
(Coordinator: Austrian Academy of Sciences).
As the main achievements of the Project CERGOP-1 we can
specify the following:
• Establishment and maintenance of the Central European
GPS Reference Network consisting of 31 sites on the
territories of 11 countries. The sites satisfy the strict
requirements for repeated GPS monitoring on the highest
accuracy level (the accuracies of 2-4 mm in horizontal
coordinates and 4-8 mm in vertical coordinates have
been achieved).
• Eleven CEGRN stations are permanent GPS stations
providing continuous monitoring capabilities for tectonic
studies. The remaining 20 sites are so called „epoch
stations’ which give positional information at the
measurement epochs.
• The Central European Terrestrial Reference Frame
(CETRF) has been established, which suits best for
geophysical, geotectonic studies of the region. The
yearly monitoring of CETRF provided already
significant kinematic results about intraplate tectonic
motions in Central Europe. Twenty two stations from
CEI countries (eleven CEGRN stations) are used for
permanent monitoring of the European Reference Frame
(EUREF).
• The scientific outputs of CERGOP Study Groups
presented at different international conferences should
also be mentioned. Perhaps the most notables among
them are the five monographs of five particular regions
in Central Europe produced by CSG.8 „Geotectonic
analysis of the region of Central Europe”. The following
volumes of geotectonic monographs were published in
REPORTS ON GEODESY series: The Pannonian Basin
(edited by G. Grenerczy), The Bohemian Massif (edited
by P. Vyskocil), The Teisseyre-Tornquist Zone (edited
by J. Liszkowski), The Northern Carpathians (edited by