New partnership between UKRI and WEMC: CROSSEU goal to facilitate informed decision making for interdisciplinary climate change research and policy making

New partnership

WEMC and UKRI are working together in a joint venture to produce an online decision support system as an outcome from the CROSSEU project. For users of case study results, which are going to be the main output of the project, and other interested stakeholders, the purpose of the CROSSEU Decision Support System (DSS) is to help them in making more informed decisions. Based on each case study’s data and modelling, the DSS will be built in collaboration with users to enable them to make actionable decisions, or to explore possible outcomes for future time periods and different projected socio-economic scenarios. The DSS will consist of the DAFNI platform at UKRI hosting the WEMC Teal tool, hence a new partnership between the two organisations is developing to implement the CROSSEU-led solution.

Teal visualisation

With the UKRI DAFNI platform enabling a user-friendly development approach for workflows and the addition of the WEMC Teal visualisation tool, users will have the flexibility for bespoke modelling options and visualisation of results. WEMC has extensive experience in developing visualisations for multiple projects, and the previous success of those - and the future success of the final DSS for CROSSEU - is dependent on engagement from all users:

to co-design functionality
to co-develop the user experience and components of the system
to co-produce resilience indicators through beta testing and providing feedback
to co-evaluate workflows, to be adapted and developed as needed

Teal - visualisation tool for interdisciplinary climate change data, part of CROSSEU’s plan for its DSS https://tealtool.earth/

DAFNI platform

UKRI’s DAFNI is an on-line platform which aims to improve infrastructure efficiency, reliability and sustainability through better sharing and use of data, exploitation of simulation and optimization techniques, and engagement with stakeholders through visualisation. DAFNI allows researchers to scale and integrate their computational models to explore the social and environmental impacts of changes in infrastructure with much greater coverage and detail, and to deposit, share and use data collected in research projects and generated in models.

DAFNI – the on-line computer platform for CROSSEU’s DSS https://www.dafni.ac.uk/

The CROSSEU DSS data and indicators are expected to be made available for others after the project, providing an invaluable resource for interdisciplinary work on climate change.

Penny Boorman (WEMC) & Server Kasap (UKRI), work package 3