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Good day!

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Earth Observation Training, Education,

and Capacity Development Network

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EUROPE REGION COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE

FLOODS WORKING GROUP

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19 October 2023

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Today’s agenda

Time (UTC)

Agenda item

Presenter/moderator

13:00

Welcome

Luca Brocca

13:05

Introductions

All participants

13:10

EOTEC Flood Working Group “Year in review”

Secretariat/Luca Brocca

13:15

Spotlight presentation - An overview of the major update to the Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (version 4.0)

Stefania Grimaldi,

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (pre-recorded)

13:40

Discussion: The Early Warnings 4 All Initiative: Are CoP members participating? Can EOTEC DevNet support with knowledge sharing, information exchange, etc?

All participants

13:55

Secretariat updates

  • Website launch
  • Flood use case update
  • Drought working groups launch
  • Copernicus webinar Nov 15
  • EO needs assessment guidance

EOTEC DevNet Secretariat

14:05

Upcoming opportunities

Secretariat, participants

14:10

Next meeting , other next steps, and thanks

Luca Brocca

14:15

Conclusion

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Interim monitoring + evaluation update

Preliminary “Year in Review”

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Tools: Global flood tools use case, 6 regional flood event analyses (2 from Europe Region), 12 CoP spotlight videos, 2 journal articles in process

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Awareness raising/knowledge sharing: 15+ outreach events, 2 webinars, 350 tweets, 235 training/opportunities shared, 1 social media strategy

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Collaboration:

  • New website, member platform, newsletter, LinkedIn, YouTube, X
  • CoPs and Global structures meeting regularly
  • 2 global drought consultations and drought WG launch, cooperation with SPACE4GEO, Eurisy, NEREUS, IAG, ESRI, >100 website members, @50% increase in Twitter members

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From EOTEC’s Theory of Change:

Improved delivery of capacity development empowers national, regional and local users to routinely integrate EO data in decision-making related to DRR and climate adaptation and mitigation

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Interim monitoring + evaluation update

Preliminary “Year in Review”

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Across the EOTEC network:

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  • Users are better informed on capacity building resources
  • Global and national capacity builders are improving coordination

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THANK YOU FOR CONTRIBUTING TO THESE RESULTS!

Nearly 800 people are participating in EOTEC DevNet network

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Floods working group spotlight…

Global Flood Awareness System (GloFAS) (version 4.0)

Presented by:

Stefania Grimaldi

European Commission, Joint Research Centre

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Link to the presentation:

https://bit.ly/3FkUTVl

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www.globalfloods.eu

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Discussion

The Early Warnings 4 All Initiative

  • Are CoP members participating?
  • Can EOTEC DevNet support with knowledge sharing, information exchange, etc?
  • Any other recommendations?

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Secretariat updates

  • Launch of new website with member platform

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  • Flood tracker and use case updates

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  • Drought working group kick-off

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  • EO needs assessment guidance

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  • Upcoming activities and opportunities

Meet the New Copernicus Data Space Ecosystem!

Webinar: Nov. 15 at 14:00 UTC

Register at https://bit.ly/3RHQe7h

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Website launch

Be part of the conversation: www.eotecdev.net

  1. Sign up for an account - prompts in the top right corner of home page
  2. Visit the Connect page to join sign up for your online EOTEC task team or working group - and any others you are interested in!
  3. Post a question, comment, or link in any of the groups or your own member feed

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SEE YOU ONLINE!

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Floods working group updates

Tracker improvements and new use case

Flood tools tracker improvements planned for 2024, including addition of drought resources

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

New Regional Event Analysis available: Mondego River (Portugal) Flooding, 2019

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Droughts working groups

Droughts kick-off meetings held September 27

Keynote: Global Water Partnership’s Integrated Drought Management Programme - recording on www.eotecdev.net

First task: drought tools matrix

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***Please review and add resources***

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Link to drought tools matrix

Who do you know who might be interested? Please share with your network!

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CoP task team project

Guidance on needs assessment

  • Matrix for tracking resources on EO needs assessment

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  • Plan to “crowd-source” content from the CoP

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  • Basis for a web-based tool, similar to the flood tools tracker.

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JOIN THE EFFORT!

Please visit the document and add resources

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Link to document

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Opportunities and resources

SAMPLE OF TRAINING AND CONFERENCES

ESRI Academy MOOC: GIS for Climate Action, 25 October - 6 December (free), deadline for registrations 9 November

HYDROSPACE 2023, 5th Space for Water Cycle and Hydrology Workshop, 27 November - 1 December, Lisbon, Portugal (in-person)

Big Data from Space 2023, 6-9 November, Vienna, Austria (in-person)

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2023 UN Climate Change Conference COP28, 30 November - 12 December, Dubai, UAE (in-person)

GEO Week 2023, 6-10 November, Cape Town, South Africa

SAR data processing and its applications, December 4-8, online, registration by Nov 01

EU Space Week, 7-9 November, Seville, Spain (hybrid)

AGU 2023: 11-15 December, San Francisco, USA (hybrid)

ESA-JAXA Pre-Launch EarthCARE Science and Validation Workshop, 13-17 November, ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy (in-person)

World Space Forum, 12-14 December, Vienna, Austria (In-person)

CALMet XV Conference, 13-17 November, 2023 (online)

8th IAHR Europe Congress Water – Across Boundaries, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-7, 2024 (abstract submission Oct 30)

COSPAR 2024, July 13-21 2024, Bexco, Busan, Korea

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Opportunities and resources

PLACES TO FIND TRAINING

CEOS Training Calendar: training.ceos.org

NASA ARSET: bit.ly/3Fh7ERe

UN-SPIDER Events Calendar: bit.ly/3LjKHk0

GEO Events Calendar: bit.ly/3YG3Lfq

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/#/

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Summary and next steps

  • Copernicus Space Data Ecosystem Webinar: Nov. 15, 14:00 UTC (15:00 CEST)

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  • CoP task team meeting: December 7, 14:00 UTC (15:00 CEST)

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  • Flood Working Group meeting: January 18, 14:00 UTC (15:00 CEST)

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

See you online!

eotecdev.net EOTEC DevNet @EOTECDevNet