Second stage of the project:
Development of sectoral tools and ensuring mutual understanding
User needs were identified in the first stage of the project for each of the three sectors: olive/olive oil, grape/wine and durum wheat/pasta. This information was then integrated in the development of a sectoral tool for each sector. With the objective to present a proposal of the MED-GOLD sectoral tools to users and gather their feedback, focus groups and workshops were conducted during May 2019.
A proposal (beta version) of the new tool to support strategic decisions in the durum wheat/pasta sector was presented during the participatory workshop for durum wheat held at the headquarters of the Barilla food company in Italy. Another workshop was organised to present the tool developed for the grape/wine sector. This participatory workshop for grapes was run at the Sogrape Vinhos S.A. winery in Portugal. To present the proposed tool for the olive/olive oil sector, a focus group for olive was held at the central offices of the cooperative DCOOP in Spain.
 From left to right: focus group for olives/olive oil, workshop for durum wheat/pasta and workshop for grapes/wine
Mutual understanding between climate scientists and farmers regarding key concepts relevant to users' decision-making is essential for the successful development of climate services for agriculture. To favour this process, MED-GOLD organised a workshop on user perspectives and is currently working on the development of a glossary.
Announcements
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Our website speaks different languages!
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The MED-GOLD website is now available in English, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Greek. Just select the flag with the preferred language in the main menu.
Click here access the MED-GOLD website»
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User forum
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MED-GOLD has launched an online platform to allow the MED-GOLD community to raise questions and discuss topics of interest in relation to climate services, the three project sectors of interest and agriculture in general.
Click here to join the forum »
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Webinar: Watch the recording 'Climate services as drivers of value into the Mediterranean wine sector'
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The video of the first MED-GOLD webinar held in January 2019 and addressed to users from the wine sector is available online (in Portuguese). Speaker presentations and a summary of the webinar in English are also available.
Access video, presentations and summary of the webinar »
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Events with MED-GOLD presence
December, 2018
Conference of the Parties (COP24) »
Katowice (Poland)
One of the project partners from BSC (A. Soret) participated in a joint session represented by more than a dozen projects, including MED-GOLD, that are trying to foster cooperation. He spoke about climate innovation and how climate services can help societies to develop and better adapt to climate variability and change.
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Photo by J. Mysiak, COP24
December 12, 2018
Agrisource European Workshop: how can we encourage collaborations? »
Paris (France)
A project partner from the University of Leeds (E. Mihailescu) participated online in this event with the presentation 'The MED-GOLD project: Turning climate-related information into added value for traditional MEDiterranean Grape, Olive and Durum wheat food systems'. The aim was to raise awareness on the MED-GOLD project objectives and community roles in line with the general theme of engaging with actors across climate and agriculture sectors.
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February 6-8, 2019
University of Padova Winter School »
Padova (Italy)
The MED-GOLD user for grapes and the wine sector, Sogrape (A. Graça), mentioned our project in the presentation 'We can't trust our grandfathers anymore?', an event where he was invited as director of Sogrape Vinhos R&D.
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Photo by M. Marangon - ITAfoodandwine, U. Padova winter school
March 5-7, 2019
Climate Change Leadership Conference: Solutions for the wine industy »
Porto (Portugal)
Sogrape, the MED-GOLD user for grapes and the wine sector (A. Graça), was a speaker in the conference and introduced our project in the presentation 'Vineyard responses around the world'. In the conference, speakers updated delagates on the latest scientific findings focusing upon applied solutions coming from both within and outside the industry.
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Photo by Climate Change Leadership
Photo by COST inDust, Workshop on communication, visualisation and user engagement
Photo by UT SEMIDE, Workshop on climate change impact on agriculture
April 7-12, 2019
European Geophysical Union General Assembly »
Vienna (Austria)
A partner from ENEA's project coordination team (L. Ponti) raised awareness on the MED-GOLD community and the possibility to join it. He presented physiologically-based demographic models as key technological components in the talk 'Bioeconomic analogies as a unifying paradigm for modeling agricultural systems under global change in the context of geographic information systems'.
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Photo by Pfluegl, EGU
May 13, 2019
Oenoviti Symposium »
Athens (Greece)
The MED-GOLD user for grapes and the wine sector, Sogrape (A. Graça), participated in the symposium with the presentation entitled 'Climate services in the wine industry: promises from the project MED-GOLD'. The event was aimed to discuss changes in varietal wine quality, typicality, chemical and sensorial characters in the frame of climate change and the consequences of vines management, wine market and tourism economy.
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Photo by Oenoviti International Network
Photo by Vinhos do Alentejo
May 18, 2019
Masters of Olive Oil International Contest »
San Remo (Italy)
A project partner from the University of Leeds (E. Mihailescu) presented MED-GOLD during the contest awarding ceremony, where there was a session reserved for last developments in the olive oil sector.
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Photo by DCOOP, Expoliva
May 15-17, 2019
General Assembly of the MEDSCOPE project »
Milan (Italy)
The activities developed in the MED-GOLD project were presented during the MEDSCOPE GA, that our project coordinators from ENEA (A. Dell'Aquila) were invited to attend to enhance collaboration with related initiatives.
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May 28-30, 2019
European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) »
Lisbon (Portugal)
Various project partners from the University of Leeds (E. Mihailescu and M. Bruno-Soares), Sogrape (M. Teixeira, N. Fontes and A. Graça) and BSC (M. Terrado) attended the conference and disseminated the MED-GOLD project. E. Mihailescu had an oral presentation about climate services co-development in the project, entitled 'Co-development of tailored climate services for adding value to olive, grape and durum wheat production systems'. Our project also participated in the joint JPI Climate & Climateurope booth, with a short overview presentation and the distribution of project brochures among the attendants that were interested in knowing more.
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Photo by M. Terrado, ECCA
June 17-18, 2019
MeteoClima Conference »
Bologna (Italy)
The project coordinator from ENEA (A. Dell'Aquila) presented the MED-GOLD project with the talk entitled 'Concept of value of climate forecasts from the user's perspective: the experience of the MED-GOLD project'.
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Photo by M. Pasqui, MeteoClima conference
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Upcoming Events
September 9-13, 2019
European Meteorological Society Annual Meeting »
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Project partners will participate to the meeting with two oral presentations under the titles 'Development of climate services from the user perspective: the MED-GOLD experience' and 'Mediterranean agro-climate projections and the case of olives in Andalusia: results from the MED-GOLD project'.
October 15-17, 2019
MED-GOLD General Assembly »
Cagliari (Italy)
All project partners will meet again to assess the work done so far and plan next steps.
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Publications
Nuevas tecnologías en el sector oleícola/New technologies in the olive oil sector. Mercacei magazine 99, May-June 2019, pp.216-18 (in Spanish).
Public project deliverables are available on our website.
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