Meeting 2024 03 06 - joergklausen/kadi-csa GitHub Wiki

Meeting started at 08:00 UTC (09:00 Switzerland, 11:00 Kenya)

PRESENT

  • Jörg Klausen
  • Hanna Lappalainen
  • Patricia Nying'uro
  • Petri Pellikka
  • Martin Steinbacher (minutes)

APOLOGIES

  • Leonie Bernet

Agenda

  1. Adoption of minutes of February meeting
  2. Report from EB meeting on 05 March - jkl
  3. Reports from the participants - all
  4. Next meeting: 03 April 2024

Minutes

  1. Minutes of the last meeting: ... were not adopted

  2. Report from EB meeting on 05 March:

  • WP1 seems to progress
  • Stakeholder workshop was planned for next week in Kenya but needs to be postponed
  • Patricia: Kenya stakeholder workshop is part of the Kenya pilot; KMD didn't allocate funds for organising such a workshop within the project; thus, Matthew Saunders (lead of WP4) agreed on covering the funds but there is no way to transfer from one partner to another; a solution was found but workshop needs to be postponed (some time in April).
  • SEACRIFOG portal will continue to be live
  • Thingo and Anne need to inform about the progress in registering stations in OSCAR surface
  • ICOS Science conference in France in September, abstract submission deadline is on 8th of April
  • ICOS Annual Meeting is planned for October is Nairobi, including an excursion, likely either to Mount Kenya or Taita; according to EB member availabilities, October 14 to 18 is the first choice, second choice is the week after; Petri mentions the ESSA project meeting (Climate-smart agropastoral ecosystem transformation in East Africa) (https://www.helsinki.fi/en/projects/climate-smart-agropastoral-ecosystem-transformation-east-africa) and its project meeting in Nairobi on the 24th and 25th of October in Nairobi; excursion to Taita likely on Saturday 26th of October; synergies among the two meeting need to be explored; Patricia (as host) contacted the Kenyan ministry and waits for an answer to avoid any overlap with Kenyan preparation meetings ahead of COP; Patricia will be in contact with Theresia for fixing the dates.
  • feedback of the Commission on the KADI reporting was mixed.
  1. Reports from the participants:
  • KADI abstract for EGU was accepted; Jörg cannot attend, who can present? Rebecca volunteers, nobody from the Kenya pilot seems to plan to attend
  • Deliverable 1.1 was submitted to the commission, Kenya pilot is well visible in the report
  • Hanna announced an ERASMUS+ project for African students, more info is about to come
  • Patricia: next step of the City Pilot is the stakeholder workshop; Patricia reached out to Nina to invite more stakeholders (World Bank, participants of the recent Kenya Space Agency meeting)
  1. Next meeting: 03 April 2024