MedEWSa (2023-2026)

About the project

Funding: European Commission, Horizon Europe
Coordinator: World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
Partners: 30 partners 
Duration: 2023 - 2026
Website: https://www.medewsa.eu/
Contact: Maria-Helena Ramos

The Mediterranean and Pan-European Forecast and Early Warning System against Natural Hazards (MedEWSa) project will develop a connected system of Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) to support first responders and facilitate informed decision making by governments and civil society organizations. It directly contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals, to improve the European Union’s competitiveness and growth, and to protect citizens of the EU and beyond.

MedEWSa includes pilot sites, organized in four ‘twins’, to foster collaboration and demonstrate the transferability of its tools. These twins are: Attica in Greece with National Parks in Ethiopia to study wildfires and extreme weather events like droughts and wind; Venice in Italy with Alexandria and the Nile Delta in Egypt to look at coastal floods and storm surges; Kosice in Slovakia with Tbilisi in Georgia to research floods and landslides; and Catalonia in Spain with a countrywide Sweden study to analyse heatwaves, droughts and wildfires.

The main objectives of MedEWSa are to:

• provide multi-hazard information and conduct risk analysis,
• contribute to impact-based forecasting,
• develop a fully integrated impact-based Multi-Hazard Early Warning System,
• use AI-based decision-support solutions to enhance multi-hazard impact prediction,
• develop innovative financial solutions to Multi-Hazard Early Warning System.