The Climateurope2 Kickoff meeting has been organized in Lecce (hosted by the CMCC Foundation, via Marco Biagi, 5), from the 27th to the 28th of September.
The two days event marks the formal start of the project, which will run from September 2022 until February 2027.
Climateurope2 is a 4.5-year Horizon Europe project led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS) with the goal of supporting the climate services community and proposing standardization procedures for future equitable and quality-assured climate services.
Climateurope2 aims to evaluate previously developed climate services and standardization practices. In addition, the project also intends to compile basic climate information and trust requirements for quality-assured and science-based climate mitigation policies and adaptation options. The project will then use the collected information to propose a taxonomy of climate services and suggest community-based good practices and guidelines, proposing standards, and kick off standardization processes for those climate services components that are sufficiently mature.
The main objectives of Climateurope2 are:
- The development of standardization procedures and recommendations for quality-assured climate services.
- The support of an equitable European climate services community, bringing together different actors of this community and a wider audience interested in climate services. As part of the project, tools will be developed and used to foster interaction, knowledge sharing, and market exploration.
- The enhancement of the uptake of quality-assured climate services to support adaptation and mitigation to climate change and variability by providing recommendations to make climate services more prominent, credible, and legitimate, as well as promoting confidence building between supply and demand. All types of climate services and market actors, both public and private, for-profit and not-for-profit, will be considered.
The Climateurope2 consortium consists of 33 parties (29 beneficiaries, 1 affiliated entity, and 3 associated partners) from 13 countries that cover a large spectrum of expertise and capabilities.