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Happy New Year!

Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

EUROPE REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

18 January 2024

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Today’s agenda

Time (CET)	Agenda item	Presenter/moderator
15:00	Welcome	João Nuno Fernandes
15:10	Introductions and member exchange: 2024 plans and priorities What are you/your agency/institution working on in 2024? Please share a few sentences on any training, research or other activities. The Secretariat will wrap up with EOTEC plans and priorities.	All participants
15:30	Spotlight presentation: On-demand forecasting services for water: the OPENCoastS platform and the WIFF framework	Dr. Anabela Oliveira, Senior researcher and Head of the Information Technology division at the Hydraulics and Environment department of LNEC (Portugal)
15:55	Global leadership and Secretariat updates	EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
16:05	Upcoming opportunities	Secretariat, participants
16:10	Next meeting , other next steps, and thanks	João Nuno Fernandes/EOTEC DevNet Secretariat
16:15	Conclusion

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Member Exchange:

What are your plans and priorities for 2024?

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Secretariat input

EOTEC DevNet Plans and Priorities

UN Early Warnings 4 All initiative: Help EOTEC members connect to news, information and capacity building related to EW4All
Revamp Flood Tools Tracker
Launch Drought Working Groups and advance drought tools matrix
Collaborate with CoPs to draft guidance on needs assessment specific to Earth observations/remote sensing
Turn member platform into an online community gathering space
Publish papers: floods use case, EOTEC pilot phase

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Spotlight presentation

On-demand Forecasting Services for Water: the OPENCoastS Platform and the WIFF Framework

Dr. Anabela Oliveira

Senior researcher and Head of the Information Technology division at the Hydraulics and Environment department of LNEC (Portugal)

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Global and Secretariat updates

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Floods working group updates

2024 Flood Tools Tracker improvements

Flood tools tracker improvements planned for 2024 - feedback wanted!

Please add new tools/capacity building resources and let us know if existing ones need updating

https://eotec-dev.ceos.org/

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Establishing of Drought Working Groups�Drought Tools Matrix and IDMP collaboration

**Please review and add resources**

Link to drought tools matrix

Exploring partnership with Global Water Partnership’s Integrated Drought Management Programme

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Secretariat updates

Needs assessment guidance in process

Matrix for tracking resources on EO needs assessment - now organized by category

CoP volunteers helping with analysis

Matrix is the foundation of a guidance document or tool, TBD by the volunteers.

JOIN THE EFFORT!

Please add resources

Link to document

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Website and member platform at www.eotecdev.net

140+ members have joined the online conversations

HOW TO JOIN

Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
Watch for an email to confirm your membership.
Visit the Connect page to sign up for an online EOTEC task team or working group (or both!)
Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

SEE YOU ONLINE!

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Upcoming opportunities

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Opportunities and resources

SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES
UNOOSA 6th Conference on the Use of Space Technology for Water, 7-10 May Management, Costa Rica (in-person and virtual). Apply for funding by January 24: https://t.co/6OqKccyEg2	AGU’s Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon), 23-28 June, Minneapolis, USA, in-person. Abstract submission deadline January 24
AGU’s Water Science Conference (WaterSciCon), 23-28 June, Minneapolis, USA, in-person. Abstract submission deadline January 24	Google Workshop: 5th annual Flood Forecasting Meets Machine Learning, January 22-23, virtual. Register here: bit.ly/3NbzYsb
EUMETSAT Meteorological Satellite Conference: 30 Sep - 4 Oct, Würzburg, Germany, in-person, abstract submissions by 11 February 3rd CEMS Flood Forecasting and Monitoring Meeting, 5-6 March, online Open for submission of use cases	UN-SPIDER Bonn International Conference on Space-based Solutions for Disaster Management - "Early Warnings for All", 12-14 March, Bonn, Germany, in-person
European Geophysical Union 2024: 14-19 April, Vienna, Austria, in-person and virtual.	13th EARSeL Workshop on Imaging Spectroscopy: 16-18 April, Valéncia, Spain, in-person and 43rd EARSeL Symposium, 17-20 June, Manchester UK, in-person
8th IAHR Europe Congress Water – Across Boundaries, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-7, 2024 (abstract submission Oct 30)	2nd International Symposium on Remote Sensing in Meteorology METEO IRS 2024, 11-13 June, in person (Istanbul) and online
Resource: UNDRR Regional Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction 2023 for Europe and Central Asia: https://t.co/tfyLQMns4s	Webinar: GEOGloWS Streamflow 2.0: Lessons Learned in Global Hydrological Modeling and Local Capacity Building https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALFNtl-TlE
Resource: NASA’s Transform to Open Science curriculum: https://nasa.github.io/Transform-to-Open-Science/	Resource: CEOS Earth Observation Handbook 2023: ceos.org/news/eohb-2023/

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Opportunities and resources

PLACES TO FIND TRAINING
New World Climate Research Programme catalog: wcrp-academy.org/catalog
CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org	NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe
UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0	ESA: eo4society.esa.int/training-education/
GEO Events Calendar: https://earthobservations.org/events	EO College: eo-college.org
EUMETSAT training catalogue: catalog.trainhub.eumetsat.int	UN CC: e-Learn (climate change, green and circular economy
WMO Global Campus: learningevents.wmo.int/#/	WMO-CGMS VLab: wmo-sat.info/vlab/vlab-training-calendar/

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Summary and next steps

CoP Task Team meeting: March 21, 15:00 CET

Next Floods Working Group meeting: April 18, 15:00 CET

Thank you for being part of the EOTEC community of practice.

See you online!

eotecdev.net @EOTEC DevNet #EOTECDevNet