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.
An intense and successful first I-CISK project General Assembly in Münster
The European project “Innovating Climate services through Integrating Scientific and local Knowledge” (I-CISK) recently held its first general assembly in Münster. 52°North invited representatives from all partners across Europe to present their progress and to discuss open questions from the first project year.
KISTE project workshop: “Open Source solutions for Earth system data (R, OSGeo, Python)”
OpenGeoHub’s Summer School 2022 took place from August 28th – September 3rd virtually in person(!). As in the previous events, several experts from various disciplines around open source software and open data were invited to provide lectures for researchers who would like to improve their analysis and modeling skills. In total, 17 lecturers came to teach 40 participants. 52°North co-organized the event as part of the KI:STE project and contributed to the lecturers’ lineup with Benedikt Gräler, Christian Autermann, and Markus Konkol. During the reception on Sunday, some of the lecturers and participants had their first opportunity to get in touch. This was followed by five days of Earth System Analysis training sessions and discussions with a focus on R, Python, and Julia.
Interview with Henning Bredel
Henning Bredel is part of the Cos4Cloud project team implementing the Agile methodology. He explains the 52°North strategy to implement agile methodology from a coordination level by creating a workflow to ensure all the services developers are connected to the relevant stakeholders and receive and implement their feedback.