CLARITY @ Climateurope Festival
The fight against climate change cannot be stopped even by Corona. The Climateurope Festival will take place. As a "webstival".
It is the typical fate of many festivals in Corona times. Hardly anyone can say what the next two weeks will be like. Festivals are therefore postponed until autumn or even cancelled completely. This is a pity in most cases, but for events that bring people together in the fight against climate change, this is really painful.
The Climateurope Festival, a series of events designed to deepen the dialogue between science and society, is no exception. Since giving up in the fight for the climate is not an option, the organisers have now decided to go for the online version.
The Climateeurope "Webstival"
The third festival of Climateurope will now be a series of virtual events. Each "webstival" will be a virtual meeting lasting 3-4 hours on a single day, with multiple websitval events planned over the course of summer and autumn 2020. The webstival series is open for researchers, suppliers, users, and funders all over Europe, and the World.
Probably CLARITY will present its online tool for climate risks and adaptation and a marketplace workshop for people interested in connecting with people from the climate sector. The event will start with a kick-off webstival on June 18th. The agenda for the first day includes sessions on adaptation to climate change including societal transformation, developing climate services or just rooms for sharing low carbon ingredient recipes or discussion.
Join the Webstival
The organizers want you to connect with new ideas tackling climate change. If you are interested in the event, you can join here
https://www.climateurope.eu/register-your-interest-webstival-2020/
The agenda for the first webstival can be found here
Click this link for more information about Climateurope
https://www.climateurope.eu/events-climateurope/festival/webstival-2020-home-page/
Agenda
10:00 – Get together/Ice-breaker
10:15 – 10:30 – Welcome address
Chris Hewitt – UK Met Office
10:30-11:00 – Climateurope Legacy: A short glimpse into Climateurope – the 5-years of the project and what comes next
Discussion round with Tyrone Dunbar – UK Met Office
11:15 – 12:00 – Mission Board “Adaptation to Climate Change including Societal Transformation” – new challenges of Horizon Europe
Discussion round with Daniela Jacob, Member of the Mission Board, Director of the Climate Service Centre Germany (GERICS)
12:30 – 13:30 Developing Climate Services
Present and discuss the report https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hQJKU–6YAhZQhwZUcd-QS1TlHE9JJVw/view?usp=sharing
Discussion chaired by Ralf Toumi – Imperial College London
Meet the experts: Marta Terrado, BSC; Helena Martins & Erik Kjellström, SMHI; Janette Bessembinder, KNMI; Vladimir Djurdjevic & Aleksandra Krzic, RHMSS. Discuss the new demands of climate services and give your feedback
14:00 – Closing and plans for the next Webstival
To keep a festival feel to the virtual event there will be a number of activities going on during the event.
For example a photography competition, low carbon/local ingredient recipe sharing rooms and open chat/discussion spaces will be available, more information about these and full details about the webstival will be available closer to the event.