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DIRECTED Project Launch

DIRECTED Project Launch

New Horizon Europe Project set to improve climate disaster risk management across multiple civil authorities and first responders in Europe

Contacts:
Project Co-ordinator: Max Steinhausen
Technische Universität Braunschweig

Project Communications Lead: Tracy Irvine
Oasis Hub Ltd

52°North’s Communications Lead: Ann Hitchcock

What: DIRECTED Project Launch
Where: Braunschweig, Germany
When: 29th & 30th November, 2022

Summary points:

  • €5.2 Million Horizon Europe Project (DIRECTED) aims to improve the interoperability of multiple European climate risk assessment and planning tools and bring them together in a manageable system (a data fabric) that enables better disaster risk assessment and management by European disaster protection authorities and first responders
  • Using ‘Real World Labs’ to critically analyse and improve current work-flows and governance linked to disaster risk management and disaster risk reduction
  • Promoting a multi-risk perspective on climate change adaptation by considering the impacts of floods, droughts, heatwaves, forest fires and storms

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Geodesy Prize awarded to Arne de Wall

Geodesy Prize awarded to Arne de Wall

The Nico Rüpke Foundation and the DVW e.V. – Society for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management present the Geodesy Award.

The chairman of the Nico Rüpke Foundation, Prof. Erich Kanngieser, and the DVW President, Prof. Hansjörg Kutterer present the Geodesy Prize Award during the INTERGEO Conference on Tuesday, October 18, 2022 at 17:00. The prize is awarded for the outstanding technical zfv (3/2021) article “SenSituMon – Integration of Satellite and in-Situ Sensor Data to Improve the Automated, Large-Scale Monitoring of Floods” (Arne de Wall, Albert Remke, Bodo Bernsdorf, Thore Fechner, Alexandra Bicsan and Adrian Klink). It will be presented to the first author Arne de Wall on behalf of the team of authors.

 

Cos4Cloud is CORDIS Project of the Month

Cos4Cloud is CORDIS Project of the Month

Cos4Cloud: Co-designed Citizen Observatories Services for the EOS Cloud

CORDIS – the Community Research and Development Information Service  – promotes research results from projects funded by the EU’s framework programs for research and innovation. Cos4Cloud has been named EU “Project of the Month” for improving the collections and management of data in citizen science.

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