Das Projekt "H2020-EU.2.3. - Industrial Leadership - Innovation In SMEs - (H2020-EU.2.3. - Führende Rolle der Industrie - Innovation in KMU ), ChAnges in the Statistics of EXTremes Events in cliMatE (CaseXtreme)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: Amigo S.R.L..Most of the developing countries are widely recognised to be vulnerable to climate risks. Climate-related disasters are already undermining record growth across the world, threatening hard-won gains and vulnerable populations lives and livelihoods; increasing climate volatility can only exacerbate this and counteract the investments being made by countries to mitigate, prepare for and manage current weather risks.
Amigo is currently working on an international funded project called eXtreme Climate Facility (XCF) and it is developing a specific multi-hazard Extreme Climate Index (ECI). This index would be based on meteorological data and designed to capture the severity and frequency of heat, drought, flood and other extreme weather events.
In order to create financial vehicles that tracks the frequency and magnitude of extreme climate shocks in developing countries and provides additional financing for countries already managing their current climate risks, it becomes necessary to develop specific methodologies to identify the changes in the frequency of extreme events as also requested by international organization and countries. With such instruments, the disbursement of climate adaptation funds to countries would be entirely data-driven over a 30 year, or some long term, adaptation period; if there are no significant increases in the frequency or magnitude of extreme weather events over current climatology, then no payments would be made. Where payments are made, countries would use those funds to invest in Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) or climate change adaption measures specified in pre-defined country-level adaptation plans.
In this framework, the first level Objective of the project CaseXtreme is to identify a suitable metric for the Statistical Significance of Changes in the Statistics of Extremes (SSCSE) in order to provide the baseline for the design of innovative financial products and risk management tools.
Das Projekt "H2020-EU.2.3. - Industrial Leadership - Innovation In SMEs - (H2020-EU.2.3. - Führende Rolle der Industrie - Innovation in KMU ), Promoting the internAtional competitiveness of European Remote Sensing companies through Cross-cluster collaboration (PARSEC)" wird/wurde gefördert durch: Kommission der Europäischen Gemeinschaften Brüssel. Es wird/wurde ausgeführt durch: European Association of Remote Sensing Companies.Boosting remote-sensing companies through cross-cluster support:
The PARSEC project is focused on designing sustainable services to help European SMEs raise their competitive profile globally through access to a platform providing among other things geospatial information. Taking advantage of the EU's Copernicus database and other resources, the system will provide remote-sensing companies access to support, technology, capital and markets. It will facilitate this through cross-cluster collaboration at European level, encouraging innovation and creating new markets globally. This will help innovative SMEs make better use of the vast Earth Observation geospatial information available, to provide improved productivity, a better carbon footprint and expansion into more sectors and countries.
Objective:
Emerging industries, as high-potential growth sectors in early stage development, can be effectively supported by cross-sectoral cluster-facilitated innovation towards the creation of new value chains and the opening up of new markets. Earth Observation-derived information has been widely proven to improve productivity (e.g. reduced fertiliser, pesticide, water, labour inputs in precision agriculture), outputs (e.g. solar farm yield), and eco-friendliness (e.g. carbon footprint monitoring of industrial activities) in the emerging food, energy and environment industries.
In designing, developing and delivering sustainable services that meet the needs of these industries, European SMEs need to be supported in accessing knowledge, capital, technology and markets. Recognising this need, PARSEC aspires to build a cross-sectoral/cross-border ecosystem whereby SMEs and innovative start-ups will gain: Access to knowledge (provision of a holistic portfolio of support services, including market, technology and investment training/ information as well as tailored coaching support); Access to technology (through three large scale demonstrators, acting as enablers for the development of new EO-based products/services); Access to capital (an innovative selection and funding scheme to ensure selection of high-potential ideas); Access to market (incl. cross-border and cross-sectoral matchmaking, investment readiness, export promotion).
By providing access to these resources, PARSEC will concretely contribute to the establishment of new value chains bustling with innovative SMEs that can translate the large public investments in the Copernicus programme and numerous sector specific initiatives (related to food, water, energy, climate change, biodiversity, etc.) into applications and services meeting user needs and market demands, for the benefit of European economy and society.