Overview

On April 30 2015, IRMM Director, Elke Anklam and Programme Officer, Ivan Celen, paid a visit to M. Paul Rotthier, Mayor of Mol. Several topics were discussed within the limited time of the visit.

The meeting was devoted to the discussion of on-going pilot-studies and key-comparisons. In addition, a number of technical presentations were made on the development of instrumentation and on purity testing for reference standards.

Current Wildland Fire Patterns and Challenges in Europe: A Synthesis of National Perspectives

Does soil burn severity affect the post-fire runoff and interrill erosion response? A review based on meta-analysis of field rainfall simulation data

An Integrated Assessment of European Soil Health and Restoration Potential

This technology foresight brief explores the future of cell and gene therapies, drawing on expert insights and highlighting areas such as in vivo gene therapy, microphysiological models and stem cells.

Signals from recent reports on emerging technologies and breakthrough innovations to support European Innovation Council strategic intelligence - Volume 2

The new entry page is structured along a number of research areas, such as Innovation and Technology Development, Resource Efficiency and Circular Economy, Sustainability and Environment. This allows for a more straightforward and meaningful access to the specific project pages therein.

JRC will publish in the next weeks in its Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) country profiles of wildfire regimes for all the countries in the world, in collaboration with NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) UN FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization) and GEO (Group on Earth Observations). The tool, which will be publicly available in GWIS, will provide information on wildfires regimes and impacts, globally, supporting fire management administrations in the countries and international organizations and providing unique information that has not been ever available until now. Just as additional info, I expect that all the organizations will disseminate the information about GWIS. I send you along a blog that was published by GEO on GWIS. Similarly, they'll publish something on the new tool. http://earthobservations.org/geo_blog_obs.php?id=462

Successful completion of the annual user workshop of the CEMS Mapping component 22-23 September (virtual). Disaster and risk management professionals from across and outside the EU participated and we reached the highest number of participants in the history of the CEMS component (99, out of which 1/3 were users). Feedback from participants was very positive and the event was felt to strengthen the CEMS-Mapping community further. JRC informed about recent improvements brought to the service and how users can better leverage it, the new portfolio elements, future evolution, etc. he sessions were held in format of presentations, interviews, trainings, working groups including quiz to better engage with participants, gather their feedback and test the effectiveness of what was presented and listened from user's voice what else can be improved. Since the first October week-end CEMS Rapid Mapping is supporting IT and FR in managing the situation after the heavy rainfalls over the Alpes-Maritimes, Piedmont and Ligura regions, providing impact assessments on the most affected areas in 24/7 mode.

JRC Technical report (draft) on debris analysis supporting Recovery and Reconstruction in Syria. JRC support to humanitarian actors on the ground in Syria with demographic analysis of the Al-Hol IDP camps. Continued damage assessment on Syrian cultural heritage sites. Forthcoming S4P new functionalities launch on 13/10. The annual Global Conflict Risk Index workshop on 13-15th October will review COVID impact on conflict.

A 4-day international conference and the final AI4SoilHealth project event with keynotes, discussion forums, oral talks, workshops and demonstrations + fieldwork: science, technology and business intelligence for measuring monitoring and increasing soil health.

The World Landslide Forum is a flagship triennial international event organized under the aegis of the International Consortium on Landslides (ICL) in collaboration with UNESCO and other UN and international organizations.

By addressing a specific request from the European Parliament, the European Commission (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC) aims at enhancing the understanding of drought effects and impacts on soil productivity in the European Union (EU), more in general on soil health, and at looking at measures that can reduce the associated risks. Such evidence will contribute to shape the path of the EU towards building drought resilience and enhancing its preparedness. It will also contribute to the objectives of the recently launched Water Resilience Strategy.

The EUSO Working Group on Erosion, in collaboration with the AI4SoilHealth Mission project, is launching an initiative to produce a dataset of the distribution of badlands across Italy and to advance automated detection techniques using remote sensing and spatial analysis.