The National Technical University of Athens is organising a stakeholders workshop entitled “Preparing coastal regions for extreme and rare events” in the case study area of Rethymno in Crete, Greece. The workshop is supported by the Municipality of Rethymno and will be held at the Centre of Social Welfare of Rethymno. Members from all identified […]
PEARL seeks help! What are we looking for? As part of their tasks in WP5, PEARL’s partners are developing a Knowledge Base of resilience measures in flood management. To do this, they are collecting examples of applications of engineering, environmental and operational strategies and solutions for adaptation and mitigation. This information will then populate an […]
Intensive, but productive meeting in Genoa! The 4th PEARL Project Committee Meeting closed up last Friday after three days of discussions and exchange of views among partners. In addition to the usual updates on Case Studies and Work Packages, an interesting session with demos of prototype platforms and tools allowed participants to foretaste some of the products that will […]
PEARL’s 4th Committee Meeting is just round the corner! All partners will meet from 17th to 19th June in Genoa, Italy, the site of one of the project’s case studies. They will update each other about progress made since last meeting in January and discuss together the way forward for the next six months. A field visit to […]
The side event on Coastal Inundation projects at the XVII World Meteorological Congress was successful! A big thank to the two speakers, Arlex Sanchez Torres and Ap van Dongeren, for their excellent presentations. Here are some pictures of the event:
The SUMO User Conference 2015 took place on 7-8 May in Berlin-Adlershof, Germany. Thanks to the broad participation from all over Europe and America, the two days of presentations and discussions turned out to be a great success in terms of exchange of ideas and networking. Among the many valuable speakers, Ms Katya Pyatkova from […]
Dr Alberto Elizalde from the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology presented a poster showing the results of research in WP2 at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2015, taking place on 12-17 April in Vienna, Austria. The title of the poster is: Elizalde A, G Jordà, M Mathis and U Mikolajewicz, 2015: “Characterization of Extreme Sea Level at the […]
Great achievement in WP1! The Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) programme has just released a publication on FORIN, the methodology at the basis of the PEARL Risk and Root Cause Assessment (RRCA) approach under development in WP1. The publication entitled “The FORIN Project – Understanding the Causes of Disasters” presents three case studies from Taiwan, Haiti and U.S.A. illustrating different […]
During WMO Congress, 25 May -12 June 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, a specific side event will be dedicated to the presentation of PEARL and RISC-KIT projects. The side event titled “Reducing risk and increasing resilience in coastal areas: PEARL and RISC-KIT projects” will take place on June 3, from 12:45 to 13:45, in CICG, Salle 15. Arlex Sanchez Torres, member […]
On the 20th February TICASS, the Consortium promoted by Regione Liguria on Innovative Technologies for Environmental Control and Sustainable Development, organised a workshop about “Research that generates innovation for a sustainable future” in Genoa, Italy. Within the thematic session on “The perception of flood and landslide risk”, Alessandra Marchese from GISIG presented PEARL and, in particular, the work in progress to implement […]
The project received funding from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for Research
Technological Development and Demonstration under Grant Agreement No 603663