The European Project EDERA (Early warning Demonstration of pan-European rainfall-induced impact forecasts) had its official kick-off on February 3rd, 2023, with a public event hosted online.
EDERA is a 2-year European Commission Civil Protection Preparedness project co-funded by the European Union that aims to develop or improve products for flood impact forecasting in the operational Early Warning System platforms and decision-making protocols of Civil Protection Authorities at European scale.
The project is coordinated by the Center of Applied Research in Hydrometeorology-Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. BarcelonaTech (CRAHI-UPC). It involves a consortium of six partners from three European countries, including the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), the Environment and Water Agency of Andalusia (AMAYA), the Directorate-General for Civil Protection and Emergencies of Spain (DGPCE), and the National Authority for Emergency and Civil Protection of Portugal (ANEPC).
This meeting was an opportunity for consortium members to meet, exchange and coordinate towards the good implementation of the project.
