VISCA Kick-off Meeting : A Fruitful Start for the First Blocks of the Integrated Smart Climate Application Featured
- Written by Super User
The kick-off meeting of the new Horizon 2020 project, VISCA ‘Vineyards´ Integrated Smart Climate Application’ took place on May 10th-11th 2017 in Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain. VISCA project aims to provide a Climate Service (CS) and Decision Support System (DSS) that integrates climate, agricultural and end-users´ specifications in order to design medium- and long-term adaptation strategies to climate change. The project will be validated by real demonstrations on three demo sites in Spain, Italy and Portugal.
During the kick-off meeting, partners presented the roadmap of the work packages and project activities throughout the duration of the project (36 months). They also discussed with the end-users, who are part of the consortium (CODORNÍU and Symington), their requirements and expectations of the VISCA ClimateApp tool. Furthermore, the technical issues related to the concept were reviewed to meet these requirements. Finally, partners had the chance to visit the Codorníu facilities who hosted the meeting.
VISCA Consortium represents a multi-disciplinary group composed of 11 partners and 5 countries within the European Union forming an ideal and well-matched team. VISCA partners are Meteosim S.L (Spain) who is also the project coordinator, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) (Spain), CODORNÍU (Spain), Institut de Recerca i Tecnologies Agroalimentaries (IRTA) (Spain), Istituto Superiore Mario Boella Sulle Tecnologie Dell’Informazione Delle Telecomunicazioni (ISMB ) (Italy), Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Department of Agricultural Sciences (Italy) (UNAP), Azienda Vinicola Michele Mastroberardino Spa –Mastroberardino spa (MBD) (Italy), Symington (Portugal), Universidade do Porto – Faculdade de Ciências (UPORTO) (Portugal), UT SEMIDE (France) and Alpha Consultants (UK).
