Thank you
to all the participants of our meeting
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Climate Research: reflecting on the past and planning for the future
– An online event to celebrate 10 years of ECRA –
on 10 March 2021, 14:30-17:00, online
The European Climate Research Alliance celebrated its 10 years anniversary with this high-level event. The event was open to all, and featured keynote presentations, panel discussion, and options for your interaction.
More information below (click to open category):
▨ Connection Info; Date & Time
Date: Wednesday 10 March 2021
Time: 14:30 - 17:00 CET
Location: Virtual meeting: GoToWebinar:
global.gotomeeting.com/join/951669461
▨ Agenda, Speakers & Presentations
ECRA welcomed the following speakers for this anniversary event:
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| 14:00-14:30 |
Log-In, Testing connection, Q&A (general presentation) |
Winfried Hoke, ECRA Secretary | |
| 14:30-14:45 | Welcoming Words Anniversary Video (Achievements of the last ten years) |
Prof. Peter Braesicke (KIT; Chair of ECRA) | |
| 14:45-15:05 | Overview of the ECRA Collaborative Programmes | ||
| CP-SLC Sea Level Change and Coastal Impacts (presentation) | Gianmaria Sannino & Ingo Sasgen | ||
| CP-CHC Changes in the Hydrological Cycle (presentation) | Elisa Palazzi & Ralf Ludwig | ||
| CP-HIE High Impact Events and Climate Change (presentation) | Martin Drews & Hilppa Gregow | ||
| CP-ARC Arctic Climate Stability and Change (presentation) | Lars Smedsrud | ||
| Keynote I | |||
| 15:05-15:10 | Greetings and Introduction | Moderator Peter Gibbs | |
| 15:10-15:30 | Keynote presentation Title: Research and Innovation accelerating Europe’s green and digital transformation | Jean-Eric Paquet, Director-General, DG-RTD, European Commission |
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| 15:30-15:35 | Q&A Part 1 | Peter Gibbs, Jean-Eric Paquet, all | |
| 15:35-15:50 | Tea Break | ||
| Keynote II | |||
| 15:50-16:10 | Title: So far so good - but now it gets challenging. |
Connie Hedegaard, Mission Board Chair (more info below) |
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| 16:10-16:15 | Q&A Part 2 | Peter Gibbs, Connie Hedegaard, all | |
| Panel Discussion | |||
| 16:15-16:55 | Panel discussion with all speakers and panelists Moderator: Peter Gibbs |
Philippe Tulkens as substitute for Jean-Eric Paquet Connie Hedegaard Michel Rixen, WMO Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF Rob McSweeney, CarbonBrief Peter Braesicke, Chair ECRA | |
| Invervention topics | |||
| Climate Science in support of society: successes, challenges and opportunities |
Michel Rixen, WMO | ||
| Requirements for new climate science emerging from the operational provision of climate services |
Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF | ||
| A few insights into extreme event attribution in the media (Carbon Brief / Attribution map) |
Rob McSweeney, CarbonBrief | ||
| 16:55-17:00 | Wrap-Up Closing by Moderator and ECRA Chair |
Peter Gibbs & Peter Braesicke | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Personal Stories Video, Opportunity for questions to the ECRA Secretary |
Winfried Hoke | |
List of speakers and affiliations:
- Jean-Eric Paquet, European Commission, DG RTD, Director-General
- Philippe Tulkens, European Commission, DG RTD, Deputy Head of Unit
- Connie Hedegaard, Former European Commissioner for Climate Action and current Mission Board Chair on Adaptation to Climate Change including societal change. Homepage.
- Michel Rixen, WMO, World Climate Research Programme Action, Senior Scientific Officer
- Carlo Buontempo, ECMWF, Director of Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S)
- Robert McSweeney, CarbonBrief, Science editor
- Thanks to our moderator Peter Gibbs, former BBC Weather presenter and current board member of the Walker Institute at the University of Reading
- and of course our Chair Peter Braesicke, KIT, Germany and the leads of our Collaborative Programmes:
- CP-SLC: Gianmaria Sannino, Climate Modelling Laboratory, Department of Sustainability, ENEA, IT
- CP-SLC: Ingo Sasgen, AWI, DE
- CP-CHC: Elisa Palazzi, Istituto di Scienze dell'Atmosfera e del Clima, IT
- CP-CHC: Ralf Ludwig, Fakultät für Geowissenschaften, LMU, DE
- CP-HIE: Martin Drews, Technical Univsersity of Denmark, DK
- CP-HIE: Hilppa Gregow, Finnish Meteorological Institute, FI
- CP-ARC: Lars H. Smedsrud, Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen; Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research; NO
- ECRA Secretariat: Winfried Hoke, ECRA Office, Brussels, BE
▨ ECRA General Assemblies (March 2022)
This 10 year ECRA event takes place in lieu of the 4th ECRA General Assembly (GA), originally planned for 10-11 March 2021. This GA will take place, exactly a year later.
Event: 4th ECRA General Assembly 2022
Event theme: Extreme events under climate change – understanding, communicating, and managing the risks
Date: Tuesday 08 March & Wednesday 09 March 2022
Location: physical meeting at Square Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Event website
- - past events - -
The third ECRA General Assembly took place in 2019:
Event: 3rd ECRA General Assembly 2019.
Event theme: Climate Change and Actionable Information
Date: Wednesday 27 March & Thursday 28 March 2019
Location: physical meeting at Square Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Event website
The second ECRA General Assembly took place in 2017:
Event: 2nd ECRA General Assembly 2017.
Event theme: Climate Change and Vulnerable Regions
Date: Tuesday 07 March & Wednesday 08 March 2017
Location: physical meeting at Square Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Event website
The first ECRA General Assembly took place in 2015:
Event: ECRA General Assembly 2015.
Event theme: New knowledge for risk reduction
Date: Wednesday 25 March & Thursday 26 March 2015
Location: physical meeting at Square Brussels, Brussels, Belgium.
Event website
▨ Video
We have prepared a short video introducing the event.
ecra-climate.eu/10y-video
Online from 14:00 on 10 March.
We have also created another video, showing you a more personal view on ECRA from the perspective of our Collaborative Programme leads (YouTube):
ecra-climate.eu/10y-stories
Online from 16:30 on 10 March.
The ECRA YouTube channel can be found here:
youtube.com/channel/UC5yrpXUilxslI5KGFCv0huw
▨ Flyer & Updates
- Download the flyer here: pdf (version 08.03.2021)
- Sign up for the ECRA mailinglists here.
- Follow ECRA on Twitter.
▨ Interact with the event!
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