ENSEMBLES RT8 Dissemination, education and training

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ENSEMBLES RT8Dissemination, education and
training
Martin Beniston Department of Geosciences Universi
ty of Fribourg, Switzerland Martin.Beniston_at_Unifr.
CH
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Primary aims

• Internet-based project dissemination
• To enable efficient dissemination and exchange of
  information on ENSEMBLES activities
• ENSEMBLES publications
• To ensure the visibility of ENSEMBLES within the
  scientific community at large
• Workshops, short courses
• To provide an ENSEMBLES-based framework for
  interdisciplinary exchange and stakeholder dialog
• PhD-training activities
• To allow young scientists to gain knowledge and
  experience from modeling and impacts research
  within ENSEMBLES

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Partners

• CLIMPACT consulting, Paris, France
• H. Loukos
• ECMWF, Reading, UK
• F. Dobles-Reyes
• Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France
• M. Ghil
• Institut Universitaire Kurt Boesch, Sion,
  Switzerland
• E. Schuepbach
• International Centre for Theoretical Physics
  (ICTP), Trieste, Italy
• F. Giorgi
• Laboratoire de Glaciologie et de Géosciences de
  lEnvironnement (LGGE), Université
  Joseph-Fourier, Grenoble, France
• C. Boutron
• National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology
  (NIMH), Bucharest, Romania
• I. Mares
• National Observatory of Athens (NOA), Greece
• C. Giannakopoulos
• University of East Anglia (UEA), Norwich, UK
• T. Holt
• University of Fribourg (UNIFR), Switzerland

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Allocation of Work Packages

• Co-ordination and management of RT8 (WP8.0)
• UNIFR
• NOA
• WP8.1 (Project dissemination)
• UEA
• ECMWF NOA UNIFR
• WP8.2 (Publications)
• UNIFR
• CLIMPACT UEA
• WP8.3 (Workshops)
• LGGE
• ICTP NIMH NOA UNIFR (IUKB)
• WP8.4 (PhD training, short courses, etc.)
• ENS
• ICTP LGGE UNIFR UNILIV (IUKB)

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Tasks of WP8.0 (Management)

• Meetings of RT8 participants on a regular basis
  to discuss and adjust strategies within RT8
• RT8 project website
• Timely approach to deliverables
• Representation of RT8 at ENSEMBLES management
  board meetings

• By month 3
• Month 3 at the latest

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Tasks of WP8.1

• Project-based web-sites, including members web
  sites and public web site
• ENSEMBLES publicity brochure, also available
  on-line
• Electronic newsletters
• Web-based discussion groups, to enable dialog
  between ENSEMBLES researchers and
  stakeholders/end-users
• Dissemination of information at a general level
  about climate change for the public understanding
  of science

• Month 3
• Month 6
• Regular basis

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WP8.1 Deliverables and Milestones

• Deliverables
• ENSEMBLES public web-site
• ENSEMBLES publicity material
• Targeted information sheets
• Prototype of Internet project  Public
  Understanding of Science 

• Milestones
• Assessment of the progress and quality of
  Internet based information

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Tasks of WP8.2

• Project publicity material
• Information sheets and briefing notes for various
  audiences
• Promotion of climate change issues to the
  corporate sector
• Publications of a policy-oriented nature for
  IPCC, UNFCCC, etc.
• Conference papers
• Coordination of peer-reviewed special journal
  edition with ENSEMBLES research

• As required
• As required
• Month 18, contribution to IPCC emission scenarios
  for Europe
• Aim for 2007 and 2008, in preparation of Workshop
  with stakeholder participation in 2009

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WP8.2 Deliverables and Milestones

• Deliverables
• Conference papers
• Policy papers
• Cross-cutting publications in peer-reviewed
  journal or book series

• Milestones
• Assessment of the progress and quality of
  published material based on ENSEMBLES work

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Tasks of WP8.3

• ENSEMBLES-sponsored Workshops
• Cross-cutting issues
• Extreme events and impacts
• Stakeholder participation
• Workshop/Short Course in Romania with Newly
  Associated States
• Specific courses related to ENSEMBLES activities
  within existing forums, to enhance ENSEMBLES
  visibility

• 2005
• 2006
• 2008, 2009
• 2006
• Regular basis, for example in the context of ERCA
  short courses

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WP8.3 Deliverables and Milestones

• Deliverables
• Workshop organization
• Workshop reports

• Milestones
• Evaluation of Workshop outputs
• Improvements in inter-disciplinary exchange
  within the ENSEMBLES community

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Tasks of WP8.4

• ENSEMBLES-sponsored training activities aimed at
  PhD-level students
• Hands-on approaches to models and methodologies
• ENSEMBLES summer school/short courses
• Staff and student-exchange programs to share
  inter-disciplinary approaches to
  ENSEMBLES-generated research (ENSEMBLES visiting
  scientists/exchange students)

• From 2005
• From 2006

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WP8.4 Deliverables and Milestones

• Deliverables
• ENSEMBLES PhD training schools
• ENSEMBLES short courses
• Staff exchange programs

• Milestones
• Evaluation of PhD short courses and training
  programs
• Modification of concepts of these events if
  required

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Conclusion

• RT8 is not a  stand-alone  component of
  ENSEMBLES!!!
• Its success will depend upon the close
  interaction and collaboration with all other RTs
  and with the coordination center
• In addition to what has been proposed for the
  contract, new ideas can be stimulated within
  ENSEMBLES and be communicated to RT8 for a
  broader dissemination
• Additional Workshops and scientist exchange
  programs can be accommodated by RT8 at the
  request of ENSEMBLES members
• ...

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Many thanks for your attention