The 3-days gathering allowed participants to exchange and nurture insightful and in-depth conversations. It was the opportunity to showcase the progress achieved in collecting useful climate and non-climate data and make them “interoperable” in terms of metadata. These will be further applied in the 5 pilot regions: Gabrovo and Burgas (Bulgaria), Prerov and Mlada Boleslav (Czech Republic), Occitanie (France), Central region of Greece, and Molise region (Italy).

The discussion around VALORADA’s legacy has been present across the sessions. Other key issues addressed the valorisation of data in the climate impact chain, how to ensure scale up and replicability, how to engage potential future regions and local authorities to enable a wide outreach, and the added value of VALORADA in regions’ climate adaptations journey.

A warm thank you to our coordinator Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) for hosting us!

The next General Assembly will take place online in December 2024. Make sure to stay tuned to learn more about our next developments, many to come in the coming months!

The Horizon Europe project VALORADA has officially started on 1 June 2023, bringing together 14 partners across Europe to support regions in accessing and using climate-risk information for evidence-based adaptation.

Throughout its 36-month duration, the project will co-develop user-oriented tools, risk indicators and decision-support workflows that help local and regional authorities better understand vulnerabilities, assess climate risks and design robust adaptation pathways. Demonstrator regions across Europe will play a key role in shaping and validating these tools.

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