Project description
Enhancing research excellence in extreme weather events in Romania
Romania has been affected by extreme weather events causing severe damage. The country requires specialised personnel to manage climate change-induced phenomena. With this in mind, the EU-funded SCEWERO project aims to boost research excellence and enhance the reputation of Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) by networking and strengthening research management and administrative skills. The consortium, led by UBB, includes three prominent partners and a private partner. The project is structured into nine work packages, which include targeted training sessions for UBB researchers on extreme weather events and the application of artificial intelligence for analysis and forecasting. SCEWERO is closely aligned with EU missions on climate change adaptation and seeks to improve early warning systems for heat events in Romania.
Objective
The SCEWERO project will be developed by a consortium of 5 organizations from 4 countries: Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), a research institution located in Romania as a widening country and acting as coordinator, three top-class leading partners, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici (IT), Universiteit Antwerpen (BE), and Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (DE), and a private partner (SME), Indeco Soft (RO) aiming to improve the excellence capacity in research, to raise the scientific reputation, research profile and attractiveness through networking, and strengthening research management capacity and administrative skills of the UBB team.
The SCEWERO project will be implemented in 9 work packages: one is dedicated to Ethics issues, two are dedicated to project management, and two to dissemination, exploitation, and communication. Two dedicated WPs focus on comprehensive training for UBB researchers provided by the top-class partners on the topics of i. extreme temperature and precipitation events, compound events, and artificial intelligence use for better analyzing and forecasting them (WP4) and ii. science communication on weather extremes and artificial intelligence (WP5). WP6 is dedicated to consolidating research management capacity and administrative skills and providing instruction for a dedicated working group to be created in the UBB.
WP7 covers a small research project with the UBB team that holds the potential to make a significant impact. It will put into practice the knowledge transferred through instructions provided in WPs 4 and 5 by the high-performing partners. Aligned with the Early Warnings for All Initiative and the EU mission on Adaptation to Climate Change and the European Green Deal objectives, the research component aims to establish a new methodology and provide relevant results obtained through a complex approach to contribute to the enhancement of the early warning systems on heat event Romania. The methodology could be then replicated in other European countries, paving the way for a more resilient future.
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Funding Scheme
HORIZON-CSA - HORIZON Coordination and Support ActionsCoordinator
400084 Cluj Napoca
Romania