Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups
Knowledge of the climate is essential to manage climate-related risks. Underpinning this knowledge is a huge range of climate research and climate service activities. There has been a marked expansion of such activities and while the numerous and diverse funding streams, activities and organizations...
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| author | Chris Hewitt Janette Bessembinder Mauro Buonocore Tyrone Dunbar Natalie Garrett Lola Kotova Stacey New Paula Newton Rebecca Parfitt Carlo Buontempo Francisco Doblas-Reyes Francesca Guglielmo Daniela Jacob Erik Kjellström Aleksandra Krzic Helena Martins Alessia Pietrosanti Marta Terrado |
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| description | Knowledge of the climate is essential to manage climate-related risks. Underpinning this knowledge is a huge range of climate research and climate service activities. There has been a marked expansion of such activities and while the numerous and diverse funding streams, activities and organizations involved means that climate service development is relatively well resourced in places, there is a risk that the landscape becomes fragmented, duplicative, confusing, and inefficient. To mitigate this, the European Commission established the Climateurope project to bring coordination to Europe’s climate-related knowledge base. Climateurope created a managed network to share knowledge, improve synergies and reduce fragmentation among the stakeholders. As the network evolved, we proactively strove for equality, diversity and inclusion, for example for gender, under-represented regions, and under-represented stakeholder groups. Climateurope explored and adopted innovative approaches to engaging the network members, including face-to-face networking events (Festivals), virtual networking events (Webstivals and webinars), use of arts, social media, expert groups, publications, and an active website. The mix and integration of the traditional communications, such as website, publications and expert groups, with more innovative and varied approaches, such as the Festivals, Webstivals, social media and arts, proved popular and successful in making the network active and attractive. We describe how the network and collaboration was established and managed, and we offer some recommendations for others based on our experiences, including consideration of equality, diversity and inclusion, consider strategies for growing, managing and sustaining the network, and consider a mix of virtual and physical networking events. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-dfe1191d0c2841a3b9bc4a7780643ad62022-12-21T18:43:35ZengElsevierClimate Services2405-88072021-12-0124100264Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groupsChris Hewitt0Janette Bessembinder1Mauro Buonocore2Tyrone Dunbar3Natalie Garrett4Lola Kotova5Stacey New6Paula Newton7Rebecca Parfitt8Carlo Buontempo9Francisco Doblas-Reyes10Francesca Guglielmo11Daniela Jacob12Erik Kjellström13Aleksandra Krzic14Helena Martins15Alessia Pietrosanti16Marta Terrado17Met Office, Exeter, UK; Centre for Applied Climate Science, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia; Corresponding author at: Met Office, Exeter, UK.Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, the NetherlandsCMCC Foundation, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Via Augusto Imperatore 16, I-73100 Lecce, ItalyMet Office, Exeter, UKMet Office, Exeter, UKClimate Service Center Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, GermanyMet Office, Exeter, UKMet Office, Exeter, UKMet Office, Exeter, UKEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UKBarcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Barcelona, Spain; Institució Catalana de Recerca I Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Barcelona, SpainEuropean Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UKClimate Service Center Germany, Helmholtz Zentrum Geesthacht, GermanySwedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, SwedenRepublic Hydrometeorological Service of Serbia, Belgrade, SerbiaSwedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), Norrköping, SwedenEuropean Commission, European Climate, Infrastructure and Environment Executive Agency (CINEA), Brussels, BelgiumBarcelona Supercomputing Center-Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), Barcelona, SpainKnowledge of the climate is essential to manage climate-related risks. Underpinning this knowledge is a huge range of climate research and climate service activities. There has been a marked expansion of such activities and while the numerous and diverse funding streams, activities and organizations involved means that climate service development is relatively well resourced in places, there is a risk that the landscape becomes fragmented, duplicative, confusing, and inefficient. To mitigate this, the European Commission established the Climateurope project to bring coordination to Europe’s climate-related knowledge base. Climateurope created a managed network to share knowledge, improve synergies and reduce fragmentation among the stakeholders. As the network evolved, we proactively strove for equality, diversity and inclusion, for example for gender, under-represented regions, and under-represented stakeholder groups. Climateurope explored and adopted innovative approaches to engaging the network members, including face-to-face networking events (Festivals), virtual networking events (Webstivals and webinars), use of arts, social media, expert groups, publications, and an active website. The mix and integration of the traditional communications, such as website, publications and expert groups, with more innovative and varied approaches, such as the Festivals, Webstivals, social media and arts, proved popular and successful in making the network active and attractive. We describe how the network and collaboration was established and managed, and we offer some recommendations for others based on our experiences, including consideration of equality, diversity and inclusion, consider strategies for growing, managing and sustaining the network, and consider a mix of virtual and physical networking events.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880721000522Climate servicesClimate researchClimate modellingNetworkingCollaborationInclusion |
| spellingShingle | Chris Hewitt Janette Bessembinder Mauro Buonocore Tyrone Dunbar Natalie Garrett Lola Kotova Stacey New Paula Newton Rebecca Parfitt Carlo Buontempo Francisco Doblas-Reyes Francesca Guglielmo Daniela Jacob Erik Kjellström Aleksandra Krzic Helena Martins Alessia Pietrosanti Marta Terrado Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups Climate Services Climate services Climate research Climate modelling Networking Collaboration Inclusion |
| title | Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups |
| title_full | Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups |
| title_fullStr | Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups |
| title_full_unstemmed | Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups |
| title_short | Coordination of Europe’s climate-related knowledge base: Networking and collaborating through interactive events, social media and focussed groups |
| title_sort | coordination of europe s climate related knowledge base networking and collaborating through interactive events social media and focussed groups |
| topic | Climate services Climate research Climate modelling Networking Collaboration Inclusion |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405880721000522 |
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