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1. 21. 28 JUN 2024: Adapting to climate change: threats and opportunities for landscape and cultural heritage management
   

   Dr Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the  Special Session ''Adapting to climate change: threats and opportunities for landscape and cultural heritage management'' of the 6th international conference on Changing Cities CCVI: Spatial, Design, Landscape, Heritage and Socio-Economic dimensions “Climate Crisis. Cities’ transitions towards smart & green development” helded in , Rhodes Island, Greece from 24 to 28 June 2024.
   Dr Giannakopoulos presented Climadapt's group new project ''CLIMADAT-hub :'High resolution gridded CLIMAte change DATasets for Greece''

   

   
   
2. 22. 26 JUN 2024 - 28 JUN 2024 : 3-day workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of Peloponnese
   

   Giannis Lemesios, from CLIMADAPT team, participated in the 3-days workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of Peloponnese ,in the framework of LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project, which took place in  the headquarters of the Region in Sparti,  from 26 to 28 of June 2024. G Lemesios had an oral presentation titled as:, 'Online tools and use of climate indices' and participated in the conversations during panels and several sections of the workshop.

   

   

   
   
3. 23. 19 JUN 2024: Climate Change and Security
   

   Gianna and John Lemesios from the CLIMADAPT team participated in the ESDC course “Climate Change and Security” organised by the National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos, Deree & Center of Excellence in Sustainability, under the auspices of the European Security and Defence College  which took place in Athens at the Deree,  American College of Greece  . The CLIMADAPT team had oral presentation titled as: 'Use of tools developed within the framework of LIFE IP AdaptInGr ' and participated in the conversations during  the 1st Session: LIFE-IP AdaptInGr - Workshop on Vulnerability Assessment and Use of Climate Indicators for designing adaptation options of the workshop

   

   
   
4. 24. 12 JUN 2024: Networking event of initiatives and projects for adaptation to climate change
   

   Dr Christos Giannakopoulos  and J. Lemesios from the CLIMADAPT team participated in the ''Networking event of initiatives and projects for adaptation to climate change"  that  tοοκ place  at the Serafion Building of the Municipality of Athens. The event was organized by the Green Fund, in collaboration with the Ministry of Environment and Energy and the Natural Environment and Climate Change Agency in the framework of the integrated LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project. Dr Christos Giannakopoulos, as the representative of Greece in the EU Mission Adaptation Working Group ,was one of the speakers at the Round Table: Challenges, Tools and Best Practices for Networking.

   

   

   
   
5. 25. 22 MAY 2024: Joint meeting of the working group of the strategic configuration of the Horizon Europe programme
   

   Dr Christos Giannakopoulos participated in the ''Joint meeting of the working group of the strategic configuration of the Horizon Europe programme committee on the mission on adaptation to climate change &  the European Council Working Group on Adaptation '', which took place in Bruxelles. Dr C. Giannakopoulos, as the national representative, joined all discussions of the European Council Working Group on Adaptation.

   

   
   
6. 26. 21 APR 2024: 2024 EQUINOX SUMMIT
   

   Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos, participated  in the 2024 EQUINOX SUMMIT,  organized by The Joint Programming Initiative "Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe" (JPI Climate), and took place in Brussels, Belgium on March 26th , 2024.  With this second Equinox Summit, the JPI Climate builds on the achievements of the first edition by exploring a number of products that can be pursued to keep science up-to-date across the European research area. These products covered thematic areas such as:  Achieving climate neutrality, Climate resilience, Managing the transition and transformation, Complementary analysis: fundamental science

   

   
   
7. 27. 18 APR 2024: Alumni Activities on Climate Justice and the Rights of Future Generations
   

   Dr Giannakopoulos gave a speech regarding climate change to a  group visit of 50 people under the initiative GCA Task Force on Climate Justice and the Rights of Future Generations at  NOA's Thisio Visitors  Centre. His speech was in the framework of Alumni Activities on Climate Justice and the Rights of Future Generations , where people from all over the world had the opportunity to explore ways to spearhead activities concerning climate justice and the rights of future generations at the alumni level. 

   

   
   
8. 28. 04 APR 2024: The Urbanproof toolkit
   

   Mr. Giannis Lemesios MSc., representing CLIMADAT team, delivered a presentation titled “The Urbanproof toolkit: a powerful decision support systems for urban municipalities to adapt to climate changes”. The audience comprised postgraduate students from the School of Spatial Planning and Department of the Faculty of Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

   

   

   
   
9. 29. 03 APR 2024 - 05 APR 2024 : 3-days workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of Central Macedonia
   

   Gianna Kitsara and Giannis Lemesios, from CLIMADAPT team, participated in the 3-days workshop for Climate Change Adaptation in the Region of Central Macedonia ,in the framework of LIFE-IP AdaptInGR project, which took place in  the headquarters of the Region in Thessaloniki,  from 3 to 5 of April 2024. CLIMADAPT team had oral presentations titled as: 'Climate Change projections in the Region of Central Macedonia' , 'Online tools and use of climate indices' and participated in the conversations during panels and several sections of the workshop.

   

   

   

   
   
10. 30. 12 MAR 2024: Interview of Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos and Tim van der Schreik at the national newspaper '' Kathimerini'' regarding the European project ''MediterRE3'
    

    Interview of Dr. Christos Giannakopoulos and Tim van der Schreik at the national newspaper '' Kathimerini'' regarding the European project ''MediterRE3'' which promotes the adoption of fire-smart landscape management practices to reduce greenhouse gas emissions generated by Mediterranean wildfires in the nature parks of Luberon (France), Prokletije and Komovi (Montenegro) and Samaria (Greece). This project is funded by the German Cooperation (GIZ) through the EUKI (European Climate Initiative) instrument. Climadapt group Researchers inform the readers about the modelling study conducted  by the CLIMADAPT/NOA group  and Instituto Oikos  suggesting that applying fire-smart landscape management practices on just 5% of the high-risk territories may reduce the area burned annually by 15%. 

    Read the article here (greek version) and here (english version)

    Additionally, in the framework of the MediterRE3 project CLIMADAPT/NOA group published an article in NOA's magazine.