Meeting started at 07:00 UTC (09:00 Switzerland, 11:00 Kenya)

PRESENT

• Jörg Klausen
• Julius Omondi
• Patricia Nying'uro
• Martin Steinbacher (minutes)
• Leonie Bernet
• Hanna Lappalainen

APOLOGIES

• ???

Agenda

1. Adoption of the minutes from March
2. Report from March EB meeting
3. Miscellaneous
4. Next meeting: 02 July 2025

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Minutes

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

2. Report from March EB meeting

• see notes https://icos-ri.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/KADI/pages/977895425/EB+Meeting+-+June+3+2025
• training and stakeholder meeting in Dar es Salaam in August 12 - 15
• project seems to be on track, project is slowly winding down
• Data gym workshop in Kenya in April was successful, see https://github.com/KADI-Project/Python-Data-Gym/wiki
• KADI Blueprint is in preparation (edited by Matt and Niina), feel free to read and comment, https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lkSJUkd4p02Hu0sxo7AoX4wcOOxl12ge/edit target audience: all people interested in climate services in Africa
• no specific final event seems to be planned
• no specific discussions on drafting a follow up project

3. Miscellaneous

• As a follow up on KADI, KMD is developping a guidance note for the Nairobi county for a heat action plan; supported by SouthSouthNorth
• project proposal to Schmidt foundation failed
• new EU Horizon calls, ... on decarbonisation of the energy sector, literature review for the next IPCC AR https://ec.europa.eu/info/funding-tenders/opportunities/docs/2021-2027/horizon/wp-call/2025/wp-8-climate-energy-and-mobility_horizon-2025_en.pdf
• processed Taita data are available to the ICOS Carbon Portal; Petri is in contact with ETC to ingest Taita and Kapiti into the ICOS ecosystem data stream
• Hanna: virtual exchange project with Universities in Nairobi, Kinshasa is ongoing
• publication "Towards a Global Ground-Based Earth Observatory (GGBEO)" (KADI is mentioned there) should soon be available in Big Earth Data

4. Next meeting: 02 July 2025

meetings ends at 7h30 UTC