Albatross project

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.

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.

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-development of Climate Services for the Umzimvubu Catchment, South Africa.
2025-04-10 08:00 - 12:30 | 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 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-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.

University of Geneva Hosts Final of the 2025 SDG Olympiad
2025-10-10 08:00 - 2025-10-13 17:00
From 10 to 13 October 2025, the University of Geneva will host the grand final and award ceremony of the SDG Olympiad, an international student-driven competition dedicated to advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
On Friday, 10 October, the 14 finalist teams, half of which are from Africa and the rest from Europe and Asia, will pitch their projects to an expert jury at the SDG Solution Space. The winning team will be announced the same day, while the weekend will be dedicated to activities, workshops, and visits designed to foster collaboration and exchange among participants.
Launched in 2024 by a network of 12 universities, the SDG Olympiad is coordinated by student teams in Geneva and Nairobi, supported by their institutions and initiatives such as the EU ALBATROSS project. This year, more than 700 students worldwide, from bachelor’s to PhD levels, have taken part.
Participants joined the Olympiad through two tracks: the SDG Innovation Events, short-term educational programs such as hackathons, summer schools, innovation labs, and courses organised by partner universities, or the Global Challenge Track, which are self-organised teams responding to challenges proposed by Global Citizen, one of the SDG Olympiad partner.
Top-performing 14 teams advanced to represent their regions in the global final. The topics covered by these reflect remarkable diversity, ranging from projects aimed at providing specific products or resources derived from food residues, such as mosquito repellents, sanitary products, biogas or high-value biogels and biofilms, to initiatives oriented to nature and environmental protection (e.g., wetland restoration, track of deforestation) or the development of a language-learning platform for the preservation of endangered languages. The complete list of 14 finalists is available on the SDG Olympiad website:
Beyond competition, the Olympiad is oriented to drive real impact. Through collaboration, mentorship, and creative problem-solving, participants have the opportunity to contribute to meaningful change on a global scale. The winning team will receive dedicated support to scale their solution to the next level.
This is the second edition of the SDG Olympiad, following its 2024 debut in Paris. In 2026, the Olympiad will move to Africa, hosted by Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana.
