European Community Shipowners' Associations

Climate change impacts are increasingly manifested at local scales, where mitigation and adaptation strategies are implemented. Despite the growing wealth of available climate data and services, their effective usage in local climate impact assessment and decision-making processes for mitigation and adaptation planning remains limited due to scale mismatches, computational constraints, complexity, and usability barriers for non-domain experts. Addressing these challenges requires both advanced computational methods and improved access to climate data and analysis tools. The EU Horizon project, FOCAL, bridges the gap between data, services, and their users by implementing an open compute platform that combines intelligent workflow management with high-performance computing (HPC) resources to allow for an efficient exploration of climate data on a local scale. In addition, innovative artificial intelligence (AI) tools are developed and made available to enhance climate data analysis in terms of speed, robustness, pattern detection, and localization; thereby expanding the toolkit of climate data analysis and impact assessment methods. A main objective of FOCAL is to support science-based, actionable decision-making processes in forestry and urban planning through its provided tools. In a co-design process involving developers and potential platform users from two forest pilot regions with contrasting ecological and management contexts (Forest Pilots) as well as a pilot city (Urban Pilot), web applications for intuitive user-platform-interaction and workflows, grounded in state-of-the-art climate science, to address concrete user questions in forestry and urban planning have been specified. As a result, decision makers can efficiently use climate data for the development of climate adaptation strategies.This contribution focuses on the Urban Pilot, implemented for the pilot city Constance (Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany), located at the western end of Lake Constance. Three core workflows have been developed:1) Regional climate change workflow: provision of robust regional climate change information for the past and the future under different global warming levels for urban areas, based on regional climate model and localized climate data, serving multi-sectoral local climate impact assessments;2) Urban hot and cool spot workflow: detection and high-spatial-resolution visual exploration of hot and cool spots in urban environments, supporting exposure assessment by integrating additional data (e.g., population or infrastructure data), risk assessment, and the planning of urban heat resilience measures and cooling spaces;3) Urban blue spot workflow: identification of blue spots (rainfall accumulation hazards) and provision of blue spot data in urban landscapes using processed precipitation data and extreme precipitation scenarios, supporting applications in hydrological modeling, flood risk management, and climate adaptation.By leveraging HPC-based data processing and AI-assisted analysis, these workflows translate complex climate data into actionable, locally relevant information. While demonstrated for the pilot city Constance, the methods and workflows are transferable to other urban areas, contributing to scalable and reproducible climate services.

L'importanza del ruolo della resistenza e della solidarietà nel contesto dei conflitti del XX secolo e contemporanei, di fronte alle dittature e ai regimi autoritari del secolo scorso o tuttora presenti, è stata l'argomento dell'undicesimo symposium ENRS.L'idea alla base del symposium è la convinzione che sia necessario un dialogo sulla storia del secolo scorso, tenendo conto delle diverse sensibilità, esperienze e interpretazioni esistenti.Al centro della discussione ci sono state le espressioni di solidarietà meno evidenti nei vari contesti della cultura della memoria, delle arti, dell'economia, del diritto, dell'educazione, del giornalismo e dell'attivismo civico.L'articolo riflette su quali siano le buone pratiche che rendono efficaci queste espressioni di resistenza e solidarietà, cercando di fornire ai docenti spunti di riflessione per insegnare questi aspetti della storia recente e per contribuire con la loro didattica al processo di peace building e peace maintenance: visita a memoriali, allestimento di mostre, raccolta e rielaborazione di testimonianze, debate fra alunni di paesi diversi con passati diversi, riflessione sui regimi autoritari nei vari stati europei, sono alcuni degli strumenti utili per costruire una cultura di dialogo e per stimolare una riflessione sui valori democratici.

In September 2015, ECSA published its <em>Ten Principles of Citizen Science</em>, which have been developed by the "Sharing best practice and building capacity" working group of ECSA, led by the Natural History Museum, London with input from many members of the association. This is the translation into Nepali.

This Brief Policy Report contains the information, resources, conclusion and survey results of the High-Level Policy Event "Citizen Science for Policy across Europe" held online on June 22nd 2021 within the context of the European Research and Innovation Days 2021. This event was organised within the context of the EU-Citizen.Science project. It was curated by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Mineco-FECYT and Ibercivis and received the support of the European Commission, the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology and Higher Education and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research.

The deliverable ‘D2.4 EU-Citizen.Science Sustainability Plan’ is developed under task T2.4 ‘Community and platform management’ within WP2 ‘Platform, Community and Network Building’ which is led by ECSA. This task and WP will culminate in the handover of the EU-Citizen.Science platform to ECSA for its maintenance and management after the end of the EU-Citizen.Science project. The specific objectives of this document are 1) to present a Sustainability Plan aimed at ensuring the maintenance and further use of the EU-Citizen.Science platform and its assets beyond the project’s lifespan, 2) to share the collective reflective process that led to the creation of the Sustainability Plan, and 3) to recommend actions to sustain the Platform, enhancing the use and outreach of the Project results.