SINCERE sets the base for the internationalisation of the specific research agenda's and an increased international opening of the JPI Climate network.
During the first reporting period, SINCERE widened its consortium and invited other partners to engage in the JPI-Climate process. SINCERE managed to raise the visibility of the project as well as JPI Climate through active involvement in networks and events as well as through the preparation of the strategic guiding document to identify international research networks, the preparation of a JPI -Climate Award, the support of JPI Climate activities related to societal transformation in the face of climate change and organisations of various workshops and meetings to diffuse the JPI-Climate and EU research agenda (WP2, 3, 4 and 5), and SINCERE and EU objectives in terms of climate, with a special focus on adaptation and services.
Collaboration is well established between SINCERE and the African Academy of Science network, the research agenda alignment initiated during the first period is further developed. Concerning the Flagship Action Latin-America (WP4), the first workshop took place in May 2019, in Helsinki. Face to face meeting foreseen in 2020 had to be postponed. As platform for the different JPI Climate action groups SINCERE defined the JPI-Climate Award which targets all research in these action groups.
We managed to connect the various work packages (WP1) through regular communication. However, during the second period the coordination faced issues related to staffing, but these are now resolved. An internal workspace was created to foster internal exchanges of documents (WP5). The COVID19 pandemic is a major hindrance for SINCERE as a CSA is about optimization of collaboration and coordination between relevant players and mainly implemented through interactions, meetings, workshop, talks during conference, actions that had to be postponed sine die.
The switch from face-to-face meeting to virtual meeting was slow but is now mastered especially for preparing the European Climate Change Adaptation conference ECCA 2021. Originally meant to be a contributor SINCERE took the full organization of ECCA 2021 over from the original host country that could not proceed. The COVID19 pandemic made the take-over more complex. ECCA 2021 is scheduled during the third period of the project.
SINCERE increased the visibility and valorisation of JPI-Climate research activities. The way of dissemination through different channels of the H2020 programme reached sometimes different networks and stakeholders' groups. What was done during the first period through organisation of events and booths at different events and conferences was achieved during the second period through series of webinars developed together with Climate Europe. SINCERE has set up a variety of dissemination tools (website, flyer, and video) and information targeting several specific audiences. To reach a broader public and inform it about the research supported in the framework of JPI-Climate, the partners further developed a strategy for the regular delivery of a JPI-Climate Award Competition.
