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CENTAUR - COPERNICUS ENHANCED TOOLS FOR ANTICIPATIVE RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE EMERGENCY AND SECURITY DOMAIN

Project description

Improving Europe’s resilience to climate change

Copernicus is the EU’s flagship Earth observation programme. It provides easy access to timely and accurate geospatial data aimed at improving environmental management, mitigating climate change and preserving civil security. The EU-funded CENTAUR project seeks to develop tools that will enhance Copernicus’ services related to its emergency flood awareness system, as well as water and food security. These two areas of focus will be interlinked by integrating meteorological, societal and economic data from diverse sources, including data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. These new tools will boost Copernicus’ capacity to forecast flood-related risks and societal impacts. As a result, stakeholders will be able to make informed decisions on emergency management.

Objective

Within HORIZON-CL4-2021-SPACE-01-43 - Copernicus Security and Emergency Services evolution, the objective of CENTAUR is to respond to societal challenges deriving from Climate Change threats by developing and demonstrating new service components for the Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS) and Copernicus Service in Support to EU External Action service (SEA), aiming to:

1. Improve situational awareness and preparedness around climate change and its impact on complex emergencies and multi-dimensional (security) crises;
2. Anticipate the occurrence and possible knock-on effects of crisis events, in particular those triggered by climatic extremes, thus contributing to resilience and effective adaptation.

In the emergency domain, CENTAUR will address the flood-related threats to population, assets and infrastructures in urban areas. In the Security domain, CENTAUR will address water & food insecurity. The two work streams will be connected via a cross-cutting component focusing on exposure and vulnerability to climate change, as well as resilience and societal capacity for managing environmental risks and social conflict. Across work streams, indicators and models will be validated by different methods. CENTAUR will integrate data coming from multiple heterogeneous sources, with a specific focus on those generated by other Copernicus services, and, in particular, those of the Climate Change Service). It will combine these with meteorological data, socio-economic data, and data coming from new sensors (e.g. traditional and social media). Thus, it will enhance current capacities to produce composite risk indexes and to perform multi-criteria analyses in the emergency and security domains.

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E-GEOS SPA
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€ 750 218,75
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LOCALITA TERLECCHIE
75100 Matera
Italy

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Sud Basilicata Matera
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Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments)
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€ 750 218,75

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