2nd December 2020, 9:00-15:00 CET

In the context of the European Green Deal, the new EU Adaptation strategy and the Horizon Europe Adaptation Mission, this workshop will:

• Showcase the added-value and potential of climate services to mainstream adaptation across several sectors and different levels of decision-making.
• Discuss barriers to full deployment of climate services, including institutional and legal issues, market barriers and capacity
• Share lessons learnt and best practices, in view to overcome existing
• Explore means of mobilizing resources for creating impacts at the scale needed to make Europe resilient to climate

The workshop builds on the results of a portfolio of Horizon 2020 projects, which contribute to the implementation of the European Research and Innovation Roadmap on Climate Services.

Stories from the H2020 projects are featured in the newly published Climate Services CORDIS Results Pack

Further information on the event & registration link can be found here. Our project will coordinate one session on agriculture together with Med-gold project

The weather conditions have an important role in the development of many social and economic activities. Forecasting of weather conditions can be useful to plan activities especially during extreme events as such information can help to react in time and, consequently, support businesses which are weather-sensitive. This is the case of the wine sector; whose production and crop quality highly depend on the weather conditions.

In this context, weather forecasting becomes of a paramount importance and provides added-value to the end-users to manage their resources and in-field activities and to anticipate potential extreme events.

On 29^th October 2020, VISCA consortium organized an e-Workshop to present the latest release of VISCA Decision Support System (DSS) & its added value through a live demo. The DSS is a Progressive Web Application which integrates climate and agricultural models with farmers’ management specifications in order to design short practices, medium- and long-term adaptation strategies to climate change. The live demo showed the integrated dashboard of the DSS with its 3 main widgets (phenology, irrigation and weather forecasts) as well as the features in relation to the map-based visualization.

Furthermore, the preliminary results and key findings were presented from the demonstration sites in Italy, Portugal and Spain in terms of the validation of the DSS as well as the results from the agronomic techniques: crop forcing and shoot trimming. In addition to that, the commercial opportunities and exploitation options were briefly discussed.