The E4Warning Annual Meeting took place on October 9-10, 2024, in the city of Barcelona. Organized collaboratively by CSIC and UPF, the meeting was hosted at the installations of Pompeu Fabra University (UPF). Representatives from all project partners – CSIC, UPF, BSC, AVIA-GIS, MPG, BPI, IRIDEON, HR Wallingford, and ERGO – came together to discuss the progress and future direction of the project as it concludes its first phase (Periodic Report 1).

The meeting’s agenda covered a wide range of topics, with each partner sharing their latest findings and key challenges encountered so far. Over the two days, the consortium delved into the specific activities carried out by each partner organization, reviewing the fieldwork conducted across various study sites this past summer.

This meeting provided a valuable opportunity for the consortium to assess the progress made in each Work Package (WP), identify scientific gaps, and discuss the risks and measures needed to address issues faced during the project’s first phase. The second day focused on collaboratively planning the next steps for the project’s second phase, with particular attention on identifying key outputs from each task, the steps to transform them into operational tools, and outlining potential outcomes.

Overall, the meeting was a success, providing a solid foundation for the project as it moves forward into its next phase.

E4Warning held its Kick-off meeting on February 27-28, 2023. The face-to-face meeting took place at CEAB-CSIC, Blanes, Spain. There the Coordinator, the WP Leaders and Co-leaders, and other researchers linked to the project, as well as the EC Officer and other guests, met. The first day was dedicated to analyzing organizational aspects and the different WPs. In each of them, the dependencies between tasks and with other WPs, possible barriers and mitigations, and the tasks to be deployed during the first year of the project were detected. On the second day, on February 28, 2023, the different case studies and work fields were introduced: both the marsh environments where field work will be carried out, to the urban environments in Europe, Brazil and Vietnam. Two parallel work sessions were held to discuss, on the one hand, the acquisition of vector and reservoir data, as well as field experiments; on the other, the different models that will be developed, the variables, covariates, spatial and temporal scales that must be covered. The day ended by sharing what was decided in these parallel sessions and the planning for 2023.

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E4Warning will held its Kick-off Meeting on 27-28 February 2023. This meeting will yake place in the CEAB-CSIC (Blanes, Spain). It will bring together the Principle Investigators, WP Leaders and Co-leaders, participants.