10:00 – 13:30 | Location: Tallinn University Auditorium Maximum (A002)

MAIN OUTPUTS OF THE WORLD CAFÉ DISCUSSIONS

JPI workshop presentations

Objective:

Activity in the JPIs in Estonia and other Eastern European countries has so far been comparatively low. One of the reasons for this is the lack of knowledge about their activities among the related research community and government officials.​ We want to give an overview of the different activities the JPIs and enable Conference attendees to meet with the JPIs and ERA-NET BiodivERsA representatives while assessing their contribution to NBS.

14:00 – 17:00 | Location: Tallinn University, Auditorium A046

Interaction between Estonian forest policy and forestry related RDI. Rauno Reinberg. download presentation: NBS_FTP_REINBERG_24_10_2017_RDI

The FTP seminar programm: FTP_FINAL_Agenda_tallinn

The FTP seminar is a unique opportunity to meet forestry experts, industry leaders and funding providers behind the transformation of the forest-based sector in Estonia.
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14:00 – 17:00 | Location: Tallinn University, Auditorium A325

Description:

This session illustrates innovative uses of integrated open source modelling and earth observation image analysis for flood safety NBS on sandy and muddy coasts. It shows a use-potential of the Sentinel satellite imagery. It is important for policy makers and market parties by showing what information can be made available on world wide scale for rapid assessments and high resolution local applications for climate adaptation.

Contents and objectives:

Climate change causes new challenges to flood risk management and a quest for new, more flexible and adaptive solutions. Extreme events such as hurricanes Katrina and Sandy are requiring rethinking of traditional approaches to flood defence. To meet this challenge, environmental managers, consultants and other market and research parties are collecting data and developing tools to support sustainable solutions.

Nature based flood defence is becoming recognised as one of the most sustainable and cost-effective strategies. More and more Nature Based Solutions for Flood Defence (NBFD) are identified and are becoming a feasible alternative or addition to traditional flood risk reduction measures. However, at the moment this concept is not widely implemented. Both in FP7 and H2020 programs, products and services have been developed to use the latest earth observation and computer modelling capabilities for products that inform managers and citizens on the safety status of their coasts, with world wide coverage.

In this session we want to share with you the state-of-the-art in products and services assessing the effect of Nature Based Flood Defence Solutions on flood risk reduction and discuss with you the way forward to link this state-of-the-art to measures and policies.

10:00 – 19:00 | Location: Tallinn University, Auditorium A121

ThinkNature Forum (on invitation): Project meeting with election of the Board & Chair of the ThinkNature Platform

ThinkNature: Nature Based Solutions EU projects clustering – From Projects to Policies (on invitation):

• Taskforce : “Data Management and EU NBS Knowledge Repository”
• Taskforce ” NBS Impact Evaluation Framework version 2.0″
• Taskforce “Governance, Business Models and Financial Mechanisms”

09:30-17:00   Location: Tallinn University, Auditorium A402

09:00-17:00 | Location: RMK, Toompuiestee 24, Tallinn

10:00-17:00 | Location: Tallinn University, University Assembly Hall (T324)

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