The 3rd Multi-User Forum Workshop of the CLARA project will be hosted by the Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and will take place on October 3-4, 2019 in Venice, Hotel NH Venezia Laguna Palace, Viale Ancona, 2 (Venezia Mestre).
To foster the users’ engagement and co-generation of the services, the 3rd Multi-User Forumcomprises public bodies and authorities, irrigators’ associations, energy producers, civil protection, insurance companies, and other financial organisations. The MUF plays a crucial role in co-designing the innovative application, informing and reviewing the project’s development, and stimulated collaboration among the end-users, purveyors, and services providers.
SEAP is a service that must provide an operational assessment of solar energy systems (SES) based on climate prediction at different time scales: monthly, seasonal and annual.
For the development of the service, we work in collaboration with companies in the energy sector, to take into account their opinion on the operating system to be developed.
Climate variability and change embody sizeable economic, social and environmental risks in Europe and globally. Climate services (CSs) are essential for catalysing economic and societal transformations that not only reduce these risks and/or improve societal resilience, but also unlock Europe’s innovation potential, competitiveness and economic growth.
As a part of European efforts to catalyse the potential of climate services for more efficient natural resource management and improved disaster risk management and resilience, the CLARA project boosts innovation and uptake of climate services based on front line seasonal and decadal forecasts and climate projections. Building upon the advancements in climate modelling and science in the context of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the CLARA project illustrates genuine benefits and economic value of CSs in the face of climate variability and short-term climate change.
A portfolio of user co-designed and co-developed CSs, helps to improve policy and decision makings in five priority areas GFCS: disaster risk reduction, water resource management, agriculture and food (security), renewable energy sources, and public health. Carefully designed business and marketing strategies will promote their uptake, help to energise the European market with CSs, and foster the European innovation potential.