Newsletter – October 2013


General and administrative issues

✓ Consortium Agreement : The final version has been sent to all partners. Two copies of the signature page are expected for each partners. Once all partners will have provided to the lead partner, two complete copies of the CA will be sent to Mary Ritter.

✓ E3P business model : the three SMEs participating to the project met with Jean-Christophe Duval (French CLC - Entrepreneurship lead) and the LSCE. The aim was to discuss and brainstorm about the E3P products and consequently the E3P business model. Minutes of this meeting will very soon be shared among the partnership.

Events

✓ Climate KIC Innovation Festival (Poland - 21 to 23 October 2013). This festival will celebrate Climate-KICs achievements and discuss the main concepts that have emerged for creating a self-sustaining organisation with an innovation portfolio that will generate high impact in Europe and beyond. More information can be found here

✓ International conference on regional climate CORDEX 2013 - A partnership between WCRP, the European Commission and IPCC (4-7 November 2013 Brussels, Belgium). More information can be found here here

What's next ?

✓ A weather generator workshop will be held on October 15th 2013 (Jussieu, Paris). This meeting will aim at presenting each WG and discussing the scientific issues related to the WGs, notably regarding the tests.

✓ The Adaptation Services (AS) platform is organising a meeting on November 19th in Bologna. The aim of this meeting is to get the Climate-KIC adaptation services community together. More information ca be asked to Harilaos Loulos or Ralf Toumi.