In line with increasing demands for more public participation, transparency and fairness in risk management institutions and procedures, FIRELOGUE aims to coordinate and support the Innovation Actions (IAs) by integrating their findings across stakeholder groups and fire management phases. It therefore builds on different formats to process the existing WFRM knowledge and innovations as developed by the IAs to translate them into the FIRELOGUE platform. The FIRELOGUE platform ? together with Communication Booster services such as brokering expertise ? will disseminate the insights and technologies developed by the IAs and integrated by the FIRELOGUE project. In addition to developing dedicated knowledge sharing formats for the exchange between the IAs, FIRELOGUE also aims to (1) deconstruct conflicting (and synergising) aims, interests, mandates, policies and practices existing in WFRM, (2) identify real or perceived injustices linked to these conflicts, (3) provide a space for deliberating on these conflicts and synergies in a just and inclusive way, in order to (4) co-develop integrated strategies to overcome these conflicts. FIRELOGUE builds on an Integrated Systems Thinking approach to bind the IAs together while comprehensively addressing the different components of wildfire risk (hazard, exposure, vulnerability and capabilities ) as well as the diverse natural and socioeconomic drivers of risk. Building on the concept of Just Transition, different notions of justice (distributive, procedural and restorative justice) will form the basis for structuring the discussions within and across the working groups. Collaborative governance will build the conceptual underpinning for designing the dialogue workshops and to eventually co-develop integrated WFRM strategies.

The escalating frequency and severity of extreme weather events, induced by climate change, pose significant threats to global societies, economies, and ecosystems. Europe, and more specifically the Mediterranean area, has witnessed a surge in natural disasters resulting in substantial human casualties and economic losses. Despite advancements in disaster risk management, inadequate investment in early warning and detection systems have led to prolonged, costly, and frequent emergency responses, straining resources. UNICORN focuses on the development of Copernicus emergency applications, using Earth Observation technologies and data to address the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme events (fires, floods) and geohazards (volcanoes) and their impact on society, the economy and the environment. UNICORN develops tools and applications for early warning, forecasting, and hazard monitoring that enable a resilient society, better-informed emergency services, and effective short-term recovery. It proposes innovative solutions for local authorities, policy makers, citizens, and industries which will increase their preparedness for extreme events and geohazards. UNICORN's approach involves creating state-of-the-art, scalable and transferable services tailored to user needs, pushing technological boundaries for precise, timely, and actionable results from data and knowledge. UNICORN is based on four use cases from different European regions, hazards, target stakeholders, and technologies, through an end user validation method to build a resilient European landscape. UNICORN aims to enhance resilience and inclusivity by improving forecasting for natural hazards and boosting emergency management at various levels. Leveraging Copernicus Emergency services, it empowers local authorities, citizens, industries, and services to mitigate climate change and geohazard impacts for increased competitiveness and sustainability.

PANORAMA will significantly enhance the quality and accuracy of EO products for supporting data-driven decision making in 3 priority areas of GEO (climate action, disaster risk reduction, sustainable development), and 7 policy areas of the European Green Deal (climate, energy, environment and oceans, agriculture, transport, research and innovation, the new European Bauhaus). The next generation of Copernicus Sentinels and EUMETSAT MTG and EPS-SG satellite constellation provides a wide range of observations for advanced monitoring of the atmosphere. PANORAMA aims to multiply the value of this information by realising multi-sensor synergies to achieve advanced products, along with improved applications on atmospheric composition and NWP (e.g., motion-estimation of aerosols & clouds, fast radiative transfer calculations, top-down emission estimations through ML/AI, data assimilation, and new physical parameterisations). The products and applications will be tested and fine-tuned in 6 pilot demonstrators to assess the impact of the new EO data on the representation and prediction of extreme weather, floods, energy, and air pollution. In its final phase, PANORAMA will materialise 3 pre-operational integrated applications over the Copernicus DIAS, to demonstrate the use of the project’s results in seamless climate-weather and environmental European services, but also to make available the tools to other users and stakeholders (e.g., integrated applications on fire-smoke and volcanic ash dispersion for CAMS and EMS, and solar energy nowcasting for the NextSense EuroGEO service). Contributions to the C3S/CMEMS Copernicus services and the Destination Earth are also foreseen. The dissemination, communication, and exploitation plan will accelerate the adoption of the project’s results by the wider community and the commercial sector to ensure impact maximisation.

EIFFEL will offer the EO-based community the ground-breaking capacity of exploiting existing GEOSS and external datasets, with minimal new data collection activities. Added-value services interoperable with GEOSS will be designed, using cognitive search and metadata augmentation tools based on Artificial Intelligence (AI), including Natural Language Processing. These tools will leverage advanced cognitive features to extract meaningful information from and enrich GEOSS metadata. Moreover, novel methods (super resolution, data fusion) for augmenting the spatiotemporal resolution of explored EO data will be proposed, in order to address the needs of the diverse EIFFEL CC adaptation and mitigation applications. The latter will cover: (i) a set of five different GEO Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs), namely in Water and Land Use Management, Sustainable Agriculture, Transport Management, Sustainable Urban Development and Disaster Resilience domains; (ii) various EU geographical and climatic regions, at local, regional, national, cross-border and pan-European scales. Further, the value of using explainable AI techniques for improving the credibility and comprehensiveness of such CC applications, so that they can offer actionable insights to the decision makers, will be showcased. EIFFEL will foster the co-design of CC adaptation policies and mitigation strategies and monitor CC effects in the respective regions. The project, in line with EuroGEO’s emphasis on early engagement with stakeholders and their participation in the application design, has ensured that they are active consortium members. EIFFEL complies with the framework of results-Oriented GEOSS, to improve the delivery of applications tailored to decision making centres and will actively participate in the GEO Work Programme post-2019. Last, it provides tangible proof of the value of GEOSS data for creating CC applications and encourages projects and initiatives to offer their data through the portal.

In a TRANSITION to resilient agriculture in the Mediterranean, the main goals must be optimized productivity, long-term biological, economic, and social sustainability, provision of multiple ecosystem services, and minimal environmental degradation. Modern agroforestry and mixed farming systems are farming options with great added value as compared to intensive monoculture - both economically and ecologically – promoting resilience and providing multiple ecosystem services. Farmers require replicable results which assure income equality, and administrations require evidence and data to drive sustainable intensification. Furthermore, these systems are compatible with other enhanced farming options such as organic or regenerative agriculture. In order to “Redesign agro-livelihood systems to ensure resilience” (call topic), innovative strategies are required to promote improved overall integration of agricultural systems, with the primary objective of assuring farmer livelihoods. With this in mind, the goal of TRANSITION is to pave the way towards resilient agriculture in the Mediterranean, maximizing the net positive impact on the environment, while increasing resilience of agroecosystems, rural societies and return on assets to farmers. This is done by analyzing a large selection of the existing farming systems based on agroforestry and mixed farming using a participatory approach. TRANSITION will i) identify appropriate strategies and technologies for adoption to improve resilience of the Mediterranean agriculture sector, including unconventional water reuse and soil protection strategies ii) establish what are the environmental and socio-economic barriers to resilient agriculture implementation iii) quantify the system productivity and delivery of ecosystem services of existing systems and co-designed and replicable case studies and their effect on farmers’ livelihoods iv) empower the expansion of agroforestry and mixed farming systems as sustainable intensification options through practical innovation and knowledge exchange and v) provide robust information which is useful to administrations in terms of measurable impacts and possible transition scenarios which maximize ecological services delivery and system resilience of key Mediterranean cropping systems. On-the-ground research and innovation in TRANSITION is organized in a distributed manner in five different countries and regions. The study regions are Catalonia (Spain), Sétif (Algeria), Sicily (Italy), the Behia and Kafr Elsheihk Governates of Egypt, and Southwest France, for a total of three regions in the North Mediterranean and two in the South, representing different pedo-climatic areas, cultures, and agricultural practices. Regions comparisons include water reuse, olive and cereal agroforestry, and mixed farming with cows, but local conditions, important crops, and practices are inherently diverse, and this diversity must be respected and considered. In this sense, we have pre-identified 20 resilience-building strategies 29 traditional and innovative farming systems which will be considered. These include novel mixtures of crops trees, and animals, technologies such as biostimulants and biochar, water recovery, and genetic resources. Digital tools must be increasingly employed for agricultural management and territorial planning. On one hand, Earth observation methods (EO) will be used to identify which systems are historically most resilient to climatic and other disturbances and guarantee productivities and incomes, and the on-the-ground experiments are also contrasted with the same remote sensing tools. With this approach TRANSITION is able to consider a large variety of farming systems, detect those which should be promoted, and offer strategic territorial analysis. Secondly, a highly innovative digital knowledge-sharing platform and data-sharing tool is deployed internationally in order to promote development of sustainable farming systems.