Kick off meeting of the "CoCliServ" project
About CoCliServ
The project Co-Development of Place-Based Climate Services for Action (CoCliServ) explores novel ways to transform climate science into action-oriented place-based climate services to engage, enable and empower local communities, knowledge brokers and scientists to act locally. It seeks to identify future information needs and the nature of the climate science needed to address the local communities’ concerns, aspirations and goals in view of climate variability and climate change.
It develops a novel approach for co-constructing climate services to support local planning and adaptation decision-making. CoCliServ establishes a collaborative relationship between climate science and local communities in five representative case studies across North-West Europe; (1) Bergen in Norway; (2) Brest in France, (3) the Golfe du Morbihan in France, (4) Dordrecht and surrounding area in the Netherlands, (5) and communities along the Wadden Sea in Germany. The project engages a wide spectrum of actors from local government, to the tourism industry, to local NGOs and to professional associations.
It aims to proactively connect climate science with local communities, using local narratives as an entry point, and vision planning and adaptive pathways as co-construction locus. Central in CoCliServ's approach is its focus on narratives of change as a localization device. Narratives give meaning to facts and scientific calculations. They turn ‘matters of fact’ into ‘matters of concern’.
Grounded in such narratives, vision-based scenarios are developed by employing an incremental and community-led strategy, enabling the identification of current AND future knowledge needs. The project experiments with art–science–policy integration in the case studies. Building on existing climate science and practices,CoCliServ instigates and sustains community dialogues to co-construct place-based climate services. It takes systematic critical reflection on knowledge quality as the central activity in interfacing climate science and local governance.
About the Kick Off Meeting
This meeting is hold from October 09 to 13, 2017 at the Île d'Arz in Bretagne. The objectives of the meeting is to get to know each other; to make all members aware of the project objectives, methodologies, deliverables, challenges etc.; to ensure that all of the project members are on the same page.
