Following two successful regional workshops in 2023, stakeholders from the Lake Victoria Basin and Central Asia gathered again for the second workshop of the OUTLAST project. This workshop focused on co-designing the web portal for drought hazard monitoring and forecasting. The event took place on November 14-15, 2024, in Koblenz, Germany, and was organized by…
OUTLAST at the Drought Resilience +10 Conference from 30 September to 2 October 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland
From 30 September to 2 October 2024, experts and practitioners worldwide met for the Drought Resilience +10 Conference at the WMO Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. About 1000 participants from the global drought community, from which 280 participants engaged on site, exchanged knowledge, perspectives, and visions on how to enhance drought governance and management at all…
OUTLAST in African Water Week / Cairo Water Week , October 15-17, 2024
During the Plenary Session “Actions for Water and Climate Adaptations and Resilience (Africa Hydrology Conference Plenary)”
OUTLAST in „Week of Environment (Woche der Umwelt) “– June 4-5, 2024, Berlin
“Week of Environment” commenced on the 4th of June by a keynote speech by Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, held in the park of Bellevue Palace and hosted by the German Federal Environmental Foundation (DBU). This event brought together around 190 exhibitors from the realms of business, technology, research, science, and civil society presented their innovative…
OUTLAST in EGU 2024, Vienna, Austria
Every year, the EGU General Assembly brings together scientists from all over the world from various disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. This conference offers a platform for scientists, particularly early career researchers, to showcase their work and exchange their ideas. This year, EGU24 took place from 15th April to 19th April in…
Co-design in OUTLAST: The second regional workshop with pilot end-users from Central Asia
The second regional workshop involving stakeholders from Central Asia took place from 19th to 20th of October 2023 in Almaty, Kazakhstan. This workshop plays an important role in the collaborative design process of OUTLAST to ensure that the developed system in OUTLAST will align with the requirements of users, stakeholders, and policymakers from multiple sectors…
Co-design in OUTLAST: First regional workshop with pilot end-users from the Lake Victoria Basin
The first regional workshop with stakeholders from the Lake Victoria Basin took place from 4th to 5th September 2023 in Nairobi, Kenya. This workshop is an essential part of the co-design process in OUTLAST to ensure that the developed system in OUTLAST will be tailored to the needs of users, stakeholders, and policymakers from multiple…
Outlast at the EGU23 in Vienna
From 24th to 28th of April the EGU’s General Assembly was held in Vienna, attended by more than 15,000 researchers and stakeholders from around the world. OUTLAST Project members were also attending, presenting multiple contributions from this year’s research and presenting the OUTLAST project. In the session “HS4.2 – Drought and water scarcity: monitoring, modelling,…
Co-design OUTLAST: Seminar with pilot end-users from the Lake Victoria Basin
The OUTLAST project aims to develop a system that caters to the needs of stakeholders and policymakers across multiple sectors on a global scale, with a focus on addressing the challenges faced in data-scarce and transboundary watersheds. To achieve this goal, one of the main pillars of the project is the collaboration with end-users in…
OUTLAST at the Tag der Hydrologie 2023
On 22nd and 23rd March 2023 about 250 experts of the German hydrological community met for the ‘Tag der Hydrologie’ at Ruhr University Bochum (https://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/tdh2023/). Under the topic ‘Nachhaltiges Wassermanagement – Globale und Regionale Strategien’ the 2-days conference was filled with presentations and discussions about urban hydrology, water quality in global change, AI in hydrology,…