Albatross project

Co-design of Climate Services for the Kumasi area, GHANA
2025-07-14 - 2025-07-15
On July 14 and 15, 2025, a workshop will be held in the Kumasi area, Ghana, to bring together national and international meteorological services, local and international universities, communicators, and dissemination experts.

Co-design of Climate Services for the Keta Basin area, GHANA
2025-05-29
On 29 May 2025, a workshop will be held in Keta Basin to bring together national and international meteorological services, local and international universities, communicators and dissemination experts.

Co-development of Climate Services for the Umzimvubu Catchment, South Africa.
2025-04-10 08:00 - 12:30 (Europe/London) | online
On 10 April 2025, a participatory online workshop will be held to bring together project partners to engage and co-develop and refine existing climate service (CS) tools with the South African Weather Service (SAWS) and ALBATROSS members.
The primary goal of the workshop is to explore a user-centered, impact-based forecasting system that integrates socio-economic and geophysical data to support climate adaptation in the UZ Hub with project partners.
The workshop will facilitate technical discussions between the ALBATROSS and SAWS teams, focusing on:
1. Co-development of impact-based seasonal predictions for the agriculture sector
2. Integration and application of Copernicus data for adaptation planning with Nature-based Solutions (NBS)
3. Building on and the development of existing CS tools for early warning systems
The workshop participants will focus on the in-depth technical discussions on the development of impact-based forecasting systems and the enhancement of early warning systems for floods, droughts and fires. We will also aim to establish a working strategy between ALBATROSS and SAWS.

Co-design of Climate Services for the Turkana County area, KENYA
2025-04-09
On 9 April 2025, a workshop will be held in Turkana to bring together national and international meteorological services, local and international universities, communicators and dissemination experts, with the following agenda:

Identify the stakeholders to be targeted by the project
Bring together conventional weather and climate information producers to deliberate and agree on the process and implementation of co-creation of local weather and climate information.
Deliberate and agree on the appropriate communication and dissemination approaches to use in support of local adaptation interventions.

Co-design of climate early warning services for the Kigamboni area, Tanzania
2025-04-02 - 2025-04-03 | Kigamboni district, Tanzania, United Republic of
On 2-3 April 2025, a workshop will be held in the Kigamboni Hub with local communities, research organizations, and policy actors. The main objective is to identify and start co-creating climate, weather and early-warning services and tools which will be accessible and tailored to the needs of the territory, thus overcoming technical and non-technical barriers to the usability of climate/weather data and information.
In this meeting, Tanzania Meteorology Authority (TMA) will be the key stakeholder with whom the ALBATROSS partners participating in the meeting, namely Ardhi University, UNIBO, KAJO and FMI, will work hand in hand. The aim is to collect the impacts of some severe weather phenomena and define a work plan for their scientific analysis.

Joint meeting with sister projects SAFE4ALL and ACACIA
2025-02-03 12:30 - 13:30 (Europe/London) | online
ALBATROSS is joining its #sisterprojects Safe4all and ACACIA for the first time!!
A workshop will be held to present the different approaches of the three projects and to find common objectives and possible synergies. Because partnership favours awareness raising and dissemination of the knowledge and results obtained.

Kigamboni hub kick-off meeting
2024-08-29 | Kigamboni district, Tanzania, United Republic of
The Kigamboni Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in the Kigamboni District, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner Ardhi University.

Kumasi hub kick-off meeting
2024-08-29 | Kumasi, Ghana
The Kumasi Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in Kumasi, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology Kumasi (KNUST).

Keta Hub kick-off meeting
2024-08-29 | Keta basin, Ghana
The Keta Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in the Keta basin, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner University of Ghana.

Umzimvubu Hub Kick-off meeting
2024-08-28 | Umzimvubu, South Africa
The Umzimvubu Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in Umzimvubu, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner University of Cape Town

Turkana hub kick-off meeting
2024-08-08 | Turkana county, Kenya
The Turkana Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in Turcana county, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner University of Nairobi.

Tamatave Hub Kick-off Meeting
2024-08-07 | Tamatave, Madagascar
The Tamatave Hub’s kick-off meeting will be celebrated in the Tamatave District, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner Bôndy.

International Summer School: Nature-based solutions for hydro-meteo hazards and climate change adaptation
2024-07-22 - 2024-07-26 | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna, Via Irnerio 46, Bologna, 40126, Italy
This summer school, organised by the ALBATROSS partners the University of Bologna and UNESCO, is centred around three EU-funded projects OPERANDUM, LAND4CLIMATE and ALBATROSS, which aim to demonstrate the effectiveness of Nature-based Solutions (NBS) to hydro-meteorological hazards in several case study sites. The summer school will present methodologies for the co-creation of NBS, from stakeholder engagement and risk assessment to implementation and monitoring, and for the evaluation of their efficacy in present and future climate. The results are multidisciplinary and involve novel modelling strategies, laboratory measurements and targeted monitoring open-field campaigns where NBSs are implemented. The school is a partner event of the EU Green Week.

The list of lecturers is available below, with ALBATROSS partners highlighted. More information here.

Candidates are invited to check the eligibility criteria before applying, here

Link to the registration form

Morondava Hub kick-off meeting
2024-07-16 | Morondava district, Madagascar
The Morondava Hub kick-off meeting will be celebrated in the Morondava District, hosted by the ALBATROSS partners UNESCO and OXFAM.

Madagascar National kick-off meeting
2024-07-12 08:00 - 17:00 (Indian/Antananarivo) | antananarivo
The Madagascar National kick-off meeting of ALBATROSS will be celebrated in Antananarivo, hosted by the ALBATROSS partner UNESCO
