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Scientific and technological cooperation. Agreement between the Italian Public Property Agency (Agenzia del Demanio) and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Foundation (CMCC)

The research project concerns the advancement of knowledge on the effects of climate change on the housing stock to support the development of tools for analyzing and assessing climate impact on public buildings (new and existing). The main goal of this activity is to support the increase in resilience of the Italian public housing stock.

SD-WISHEES | Supporting and Developing WIdening Strategies to tackle Hydroclimatic Extreme Events: impacts and Sustainable solutions for cultural heritage

SD-WISHEES actively promotes and supports the collaboration between JPI Climate, Water JPI and national research and innovation funding members to address together the protection of cultural heritage in Europe and beyond. With this purpose, both JPIs will support the implementation of multi-annual joint activities with partners from associated and widening countries and international parties to better understand hydroclimatic extreme events and identify the best available coping solutions.

SD4SP: Stratospheric Dynamics for Seasonal Prediction

Seasonal forecasting is a field with enormous potential influence in different socio-economic sectors, such as water resources, agriculture, health, and energy. Yet, surface climate conditions in Europe still represent a hurdle to formulate skillful seasonal predictions. 

SDGs-EYES – Sustainable Development Goals – Enhanced monitoring through the family of copErnicus Services

The UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a data driven agenda, and the use of Earth Observation (EO) can make the SDG indicators’ monitoring and reporting technically and financially viable, and comparable across countries.  SDGs-EYES aims to boost the European capacity for monitoring the SDGs based on Copernicus, building a portfolio of decision-making tools to monitor those SDG indicators related to the environment from an inter-sectoral perspective, aligning with the EU Green Deal priorities and challenges. SDGs-EYES will establish an integrated scientific, technological and user engagement framework overcoming the knowledge and technical barriers that prevent the exploitation, combination and cross-feeding of data and tools from the Copernicus’s six core Services, its space-based and in-situ components, and other platforms and portals.  SDGs-EYES considers three interconnected SDGs, on climate (SDG13), ocean (SDG14) and land (SDG15), to demonstrate through four Pilots the Copernicus potential for monitoring six indicators making part of the EU and national assessments: GHG emissions, temperature deviation, ocean acidification, marine eutrophication, forest cover change and soil erosion. Although focusing on the biosphere, these indicators are linked to other SDGs on socio-economic and (geo)political factors (e.g., human health, resources security, poverty, conflicts, displacements). Thus, an additional cross-goals indicator and Pilot will focus on vulnerable communities under cumulative climate extreme hazards.  SDGs-EYES seeks to combine the science-informed (top-down) approach with a stakeholder-driven (bottom-up) approach to transfer scientific outcomes into easy-to-understand and easy-to-use actionable information in the context of SDG indicators’ assessment. Decision-making tools delivered by Pilots will be co-designed with users,

SEA-LIMITHS: Sea Level Rise Impacts on Italian Hospitality

SEA-LIMITHS is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship Project. The aim of this project is to investigate the impacts and economic consequences of sea level rise on sandy beaches and beach hospitality losses owing to beach erosion and flooding in Italy.

SEACRIFOG – Supporting EU-African Cooperation on Research Infrastructures for Food Security and GHG Observations

African societies face growing global change risks, with rapidly changing patterns of human settlements and intensity of use of ecosystem services. At the same time, climate variability and climate change are intensifying stress on both terrestrial and marine ecosystems that ensure environmental security, both locally (e.g. ecosystem services), regionally (e.g. sustainable development options) and internationally (e.g. carbon sequestration). Approaches that can address this challenge in an integrated and multidisciplinary way are urgently needed. In many places in Africa there is a close relationship between societal well-being and environmental condition, relating particularly to biomass for energy and food production, as well as water availability and water quality. Long-term terrestrial and marine observational systems and research infrastructures have been identified to be indispensable elements of knowledge generation to serve climate change adaptation, food security, and climate change mitigation.

SEBASTIEN – Smarter livEstock Breeding through Advanced Services Tailoring Innovative and multi-sourcE data to users’ Needs

Livestock production in the European Union (EU) is a large economic sector and products of animal origin make up 45% (168 billion euro annually) of the EU agricultural production value, generating jobs for almost 30 million people. Due to the high impact of the livestock sector on GHG emissions, while also suffering from accelerating changes in climate trends, variability and extreme events’ occurrence, there is an increasing need to formulate management options meeting the challenges of both climate mitigation and adaptation, e.g., by adopting and/or scheduling farming practices that can be successful under the most likely climate scenarios for the future, or under as many scenarios as possible. SEBASTIEN (Smarter livEstock Breeding through Advanced Services Tailoring Innovative and multi-sourcE data to users’ Needs) wishes to implement large-scale ICT-based (mainly Cloud but also HPC) services to support smart livestock farming and management (i.e., both environmentally and socio- economically sustainable), while reducing risks and taking opportunities posed by climate change and its variability, as well as by other concurrent environmental stressors and anthropogenic pressures.

SICAB – Sino Italian capacity building for environmental protection

The project is dedicated to high-level training services in the fields of sustainable development and environmental management in the framework of Italy-China bilateral cooperation. The training offer includes training modules divided into two years and consisting of  modules to be delivered in Italy, and 9 modules to be delivered in China. The project includes not only training activities but also communication, business matching, monitoring and evaluation activities, the use of the Learning Management System platform and the Giornate Italia.

SICAP: Sea Ice model Calibration for improved Artic Predictions

The Sea Ice model Calibration for improved Arctic Predictions (SICAP) project aims to develop and deliver an innovative calibration tool to be applied to sea ice models, to improve the quality of the Arctic sea ice predictions and regional/global reanalyses.

SIDS2 – Climate Change Assessment in Small Pacific Island States

This project aims to enhance the scientific, economic and human adaptive capacity of Pacific Island Countries to climate change and related hazards risks, through the application of participatory approaches, economic analysis of the implication of global climate change policies and measures for Pacific Island Countries.

SILVANUS – Integrated Technological and Information Platform for wildfire Management

SILVANUS envisages to deliver an environmentally sustainable and climate resilient forest management platform through innovative capabilities to prevent and combat against the ignition and spread of forest fires. The platform will cater to the demands of efficient resource utilisation and provide protection against threats of wildfires encountered globally. The project will establish synergies between (i) environmental; (ii) technology and (iii) social science experts for enhancing the ability of regional and national authorities to monitor forest resources, evaluate biodiversity, generate more accurate fire risk indicators and promote safety regulations among citizens through awareness campaigns. The novelty of SILVANUS lies in the development and integration of advanced semantic technologies to systematically formalise the knowledge of forest administration and resource utilisation. Additionally, the platform will integrate a big-data processing framework capable of analysing heterogeneous data sources including earth observation resources, climate models and weather data, continuous on-board computation of multi-spectral video streams. Also, the project integrates a series of sensor and actuator technologies using innovative wireless communication infrastructure through the coordination of aerial vehicles and ground robots. The technological platform will be complemented with the integration of resilience models, and the results of environmental and ecological studies carried out for the assessment of fire risk indicators based on continuous surveys of forest regions. The surveys are designed to take into consideration the expertise and experience of frontline fire fighter organisations who collectively provide support for 47,504×104 sq. meters of forest area within Europe and across international communities. The project innovation will be validated

SIM: Sistema Avanzato ed Integrato di Monitoraggio e Previsione

The project, part of Italy’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), aims to build an advanced and integrated monitoring and forecasting system to enhance predictive capabilities regarding the effects of climate change and protect the Italian territory and water resources from natural and anthropogenic risks. The SIM (Sistema Avanzato ed Integrato di Monitoraggio e Previsione) is a long-term surveillance system designed to enable the implementation of preventive measures, such as scheduled maintenance of the territory and infrastructures, marine and coastal pollution monitoring and optimized resource and emergency management. By integrating real-time data collection and predictive modeling, the system enhances the ability to detect environmental threats in advance, mitigate pollution risks in marine, coastal and land areas and support sustainable management strategies for land and water resources. The project involves six vertical applications, including Marine and Coastal Pollution Monitoring (Vertical 3), which focuses on surveillance of marine and coastal water quality to prevent and mitigate environmental pollution. Each Vertical is split in different Case Uses (CU) or applications. CMCC is involved in CU 3.2, 3.3 and 3.5 of Vertical 3.

SIMPLe – Integrated and automated systems for indoor farming

SIMPLe main focus is the development of a methodological and technological framework for assisted production and harvesting in agriculture that, through the use of technologies, allows the monitoring of the production environment and the product. The purpose of the system is to ensure greater production yield, environmental sustainability and product quality, avoid using substances that are harmful to health, rationalize resources and reduce costs.

Six oil spill scenarios in Angola: Modelling and Analysis

The report was aimed at supporting the development of an oil spill contingency plan for the Angola coastline. Numerical oil spill simulations were employed to depict the oil spill trajectory and fate for a list of spill scenarios defined by the client under average ocean and atmospheric states.

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