STRENGTHENING THE RESEARCH CAPACITIES FOR EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS IN ROMANIA

The SCEWERO project will be developed by a consortium of 5 organizations from 4 countries: Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB), a research institution located in Romania as a widening country and acting as coordinator, three top-class leading partners, Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo Sui Cambiamenti Climatici (IT), Universiteit Antwerpen (BE), and Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen (DE), and a private partner (SME), Indeco Soft (RO) aiming to improve the excellence capacity in research, to raise the scientific reputation, research profile and attractiveness through networking, and strengthening research management capacity and administrative skills of the UBB team.The SCEWERO project will be implemented in 9 work packages: one is dedicated to Ethics issues, two are dedicated to project management, and two to dissemination, exploitation, and communication.

Two dedicated WPs focus on comprehensive training for UBB researchers provided by the top-class partners on the topics of i. extreme temperature and precipitation events, compound events, and artificial intelligence use for better analyzing and forecasting them (WP4) and ii. science communication on weather extremes and artificial intelligence (WP5).

WP6 is dedicated to consolidating research management capacity and administrative skills and providing instruction for a dedicated working group to be created in the UBB.WP7 covers a small research project with the UBB team that holds the potential to make a significant impact.

It will put into practice the knowledge transferred through instructions provided in WPs 4 and 5 by the high-performing partners.

Aligned with the Early Warnings for All Initiative and the EU mission on Adaptation to Climate Change and the European Green Deal objectives, the research component aims to establish a new methodology and provide relevant results obtained through a complex approach to contribute to the enhancement of the early warning systems on heat event Romania.

The methodology could be then replicated in other European countries, paving the way for a more resilient future.