CoCliServ

Co-development of place-based climate services for action

ERA4CSClimate services

Imagine scientists, with her and his, butterfly net. Yet these are not butterflies she and he are after. They are (gracefully) hunting down climate-centred narratives – as elusive and beautiful as the rarest of butterflies. And no, he and she will NOT pin them down. They will look at them as they deploy, live, change, and exist. By observing these, with the help of an international interdisciplinary team, they will identify the fabric of local communities’
weatherworlds. And from these weatherworlds they will infer the needs for climate services – current and future. This is what CoCliServ is about.

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Local communities and scientists will benefit from well tested protocols in order to develop local scenario – centered on identifying information needs – that are explicitly aimed at eliciting key information and climate service needs. These will be rooted in local vision. Rather than focusing on what will or might happen in the future, communities and scientists will be equipped, through CoCLiServ’s production, to develop scenarios centred on what should happen – and most importantly to co-develop climate services aimed at making local needs fulfilled.

Jean-Paul Vanderlinden

My name is Jean-Paul Vanderlinden and I am currently focusing my research activities on adaptation to climate change. I work with local communities, analyzing how climate change is, or will potentially, impact their daily lives - transdisciplinary science and thus the co-development of climate services is central to these challenges. I use risk governance and land use planning as a conceptual entry point. My main geographical focus is the coastal zone. I am also conducting research on the epistemic dimension of interdisciplinary work and the practice of art and science integration.

Project consortium

Utrecht University
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
University of Bergen
CEARC Research Center
University of Bremen
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy

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CoCliServ is coordinated by the CEARC Research Center (Université de Versailles SaintQuentin-en-Yvelines, France - CEARC-UVSQ). Beyond coordination work, the CEARC-UVSQ is leading the work in the two French field sites: Brest and the Gulf of Morbihan. CEARCUVSQ is also leading the work on the ways of representing scientific results.
The Artec Sustainability Research Centre, Bremen University, is leading the work on narrative collection and analysis. It also leads the fieldwork in the Jade Bay fieldsite.
The Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (Copernicus-UU) is leading the work on scenario development as well as the Dordrecht fieldwork.
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthach (HZG) is coordinating the work on climate science analysis and development.
The LSCE research Center (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, LSCE/CNRS) contributes to the work on climate science analysis and development.
The Institut d’aéronomie (IASB-BIRA) contributes to the project by developing innovative metadata analysis and sets IGEAT, from Université Libre de Bruxelles, contributes by developing georeferencing schemes an interactive maps.
The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities from the University of Bergen, is leading the work on Knowledge quality assessment, on citizen sciences. It is also leading the work in the Bergen field site.

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ERA4CS

European Research Area for Climate Services

ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services - This ERA-NET Consortium has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.

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