The CLARA General Assembly will take place on May 29-30, 2018 in Venice.

Organized by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, coordinator of the project, it will be hosted at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, “Sala Marino Berengo”.

CLARA – Climate forecast enabled knowledge services – is a Horizon 2020 funded innovation action set to catalyse more efficient natural resource management and improved disaster risk management and resilience by exploiting the potential of innovate climate services. Building upon the recent advancements in climate modelling and forecasts, including the Copernicus Climate Change Service, the project sets to develop a portfolio of users’ co-designed climate services able to inform policy and decision making in five priority areas Global Framework for Climate Services: disaster risk reduction, water resource management, agriculture and food security,renewable energy sources, and public health. For each service developed we will illustrate the genuine benefits and economic value of CSs in the face of climate variability and short-term climate change, and formulate business and marketing strategy to energise the European market with climate services and foster the European innovation potential.

With more than 30 project partners present in Venice, it will be the occasion to advance in project developments. The Agenda foresees a session dedicated to each of the project workpackages, a poster session and a session dedicated to European projects which are linked to CLARA: the COACCH Project (Co-designing the assessment of climate change costs), the MED-GOLD Project (Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, OLive and Durum wheat food systems) and the S2S4E project (Climate services for clean energy).