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DIsaster Resilience for Extreme ClimaTe Events providing interoperable Data, models, communication and governance

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - DIRECTED (DIsaster Resilience for Extreme ClimaTe Events providing interoperable Data, models, communication and governance)

Période du rapport: 2022-10-01 au 2024-01-31

The recent droughts and unprecedented floods in 2021 and 2023 in Europe have illustrated our vulnerability to extreme weather events. Besides climate change as a driver of more frequent and intensifying weather extremes, demographic change and socio-economic development exacerbate severe impacts. International frameworks for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation (e.g. SENDAI framework, EU Climate Adaptation Strategy & EU disaster risk management policies) acknowledge the critical need for integrating risk governance, communication and operational mechanisms for coping with extreme climate. DIRECTED seeks to foster disaster-resilient societies through improving collaborations and communication among scientific, technical, and policy-makers, and local communities regarding extreme climate events and a multi-risk perspective on forest fires, droughts, floods, heatwaves, and storms, to support disaster risk reduction. Our four European Real World Labs (RWL’s) are at the centre of our efforts to improve interoperability for data, models, communication and governance in the context for Disaster Risk Management (DRM) and Climate Change Adaptation (CCA). DIRECTED will improve interoperability with an integrated federated system, which connects different instances and data sources on public and private clouds under a centralized interface, known as a Data-Fabric. The Data-Fabric will adapt to changing CCA and DRM requirements for data, models and visualizations. Our RWLs will co-produce a plug and play system that lowers the cost of implementing new and connecting existing modeling environments and data sources.

DIRECTED has seven core objectives, which include creating an overview of current knowledge, policies, tools, and best practices for DRM and CCA decision-making; advancing the interoperability of data, models, and tools; co-developing a new multi-level integrated risk governance framework (Risk-Tandem framework) for the coherent integration between DRM and CCA policies; demonstrating the potential of transdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder co-production as a means to unpack enablers, barriers for developing transformative tools and improved risk management strategies; leveraging innovative digital architectures using a Data-Fabric technique to support integrated multi-hazard DRM and CCA workflows; demonstrating the feasibility for integrated cross-sectoral and transdisciplinary coordination of the DRM cycle; and strengthening DRM and resilience-building in our RWLs and beyond.
The work performed during the first 15 months of the DIRECTED Project has primarily included:
- The set-up and understanding of issues, data and tool availability that is seen at grassroots levels within the four Real World Labs – in The Capital Region of Copenhagen, Emilia Romagna, Rhine Erft and Danube Regions. This has included building stakeholder partnerships at local level.
- The understanding of data standards required for the work on the interoperability of tools and services offered by partners and how these tools can be made interoperable for the benefit of the Real World Labs
- Initial augmentation and further development of existent models, tools and methods towards main-streaming, enhanced interoperability and applicability within the Real World Labs and beyond (aligned with above-mentioned points)
- The integration of Tandem co-production and co-design of tools with a range of risk governance systems in the Risk-Tandem framework was completed.
- Application of the Risk-Tandem framework in the four Real World Labs has begun and will continue in an iterative process to understand current and future risk governance challenges
- Initial analyses were carried out to understand data availability at Real World Lab and Project level and how these tools and governance systems may be improved using the Data-Fabric
- Set-up of all communications and dissemination channels and first phase work in this in line with our communications and dissemination action plan
- Reaching out to and knowledge exchanges with related projects and initiatives within the sphere of DIRECTED
Scientific, Societal and Economic Results and Impacts:
• The Tandem Process (SEI) has improved scientific workflows for stakeholder engagement and knowledge accumulation from stakeholders, by combining important tools to engage stakeholders in Co-production and Co-design. This has been achieved by using the Tandem Risk Framework with stakeholder organisations in the Real World Lab.
• Improved capacity for the scientific community to couple data sets and models from multiple sources through the developed interoperability framework. A framework that outlines different pathways for interoperability has been developed that can be used long-term by scientists to increase interoperability of data and tools.
• The SaferPlaces Platform, was utilised by the Civil Protection of the Emilia-Romagna region to generate flood water and depth maps to take crucial decisions after the disaster and support the assessment of the damages of the affected areas
• The Tandem-Risk framework has been actively used in stakeholder engagement in the Danish, German and Italian RWLs successfully bringing together actors that traditionally do not exchange information in the field of DRR and CCA
• Increasing Awareness on Silos in Data Interoperability and Governance. WP1 has spotlighted the fragmentation in data interoperability and governance practices. Through RWLs activities, the project outlined the potential for cohesive data sharing and governance structures, emphasizing the need for a unified approach to data management across different sectors involved in disaster resilience.
The four European Real World Labs of DIRECTED
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