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On 16 October 2025, the CENTAUR project participated in the Regional Meet-up on “Approaches to Assessing the Impacts of Drought”, organised by the Earth Observation Training, Education, and Capacity Development Network (EOTEC DevNet). The session was part of a series of regional meetings convened by EOTEC DevNet’s Drought Working Group, aimed at exchanging lessons learned …

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Partners from ECMWF presented the CENTAUR Horizon Europe project at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society (EMS) in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Their work on forecasting extreme precipitation to anticipate urban flooding was also among the three most innovative ideas in meteorology as finalists for the Harry Otten Prize 2025.  From 8 to 12 …

CENTAUR product recognised as one of the most innovative ideas in meteorology Read More »

A new study in Remote Sensing of Environment (ELSEVIER), led by VITO in collaboration with ECMWF, both partners in the CENTAUR Horizon Europe project, shows how Earth Observation (EO) data combined with machine learning models allow to forecast the impacts of agricultural droughts on vegetation up to three months in advance. This publication adds directly …

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The CENTAUR Horizon Europe project was present at the 2025 European Space Agency’s (ESA) Living Planet Symposium in Vienna. Several of our consortium partners, participated in the event and presented recent work and developments related to the project. CENTAUR Featured at the European Commission’s EU Space Booth At this edition of LPS, Horizon Europe projects …

CENTAUR ATTENDS ESA’s LIVING PLANET SYMPOSIUM 2025  Read More »

According to the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) 2023 report, up to 757 million people faced chronic hunger in 2023. Meanwhile, the World Food Programme (WFP) estimated that 343 million people were facing acute food insecurity as of November 2024, across 74 countries. Key drivers of this crisis include armed …

Using Earth Observation and AI to Address Food Insecurity: CENTAUR and ThinkingEarth Collaboration Read More »

CENTAUR and SEED-FD are two research and development projects funded under Horizon Europe and responding to the growing risks caused by the consequences of climate change. By advancing early warning systems for droughts and floods and developing indicators which involve environmental, societal, and economic risk factors, the projects support global anticipatory action and more coordinated …

CENTAUR and SEED-FD: Strengthening Resilience to Climate Extremes  Read More »

From 27 April to 2 May, the CENTAUR Horizon Europe project was represented at the 2025 European Geophysical Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna. Two consortium partners, Ithaca and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), participated in the event and presented recent work and developments related to the project.  Ithaca colleagues, Burcu Koçoğlu …

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From 23 to 25 April 2025, a three-day webinar on “Copernicus for Land Degradation, Agriculture, and Food Security” was co-organised by the EU Space Support Office (EUSSO) in collaboration with the Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) – entity based in Kenya which includes 20 Contracting Member States across the Eastern and …

CENTAUR Showcased at “Copernicus for Land Degradation, Agriculture, and Food Security” webinar Read More »

We are pleased to share the recent publication of the paper “ERA5–Drought: Global Drought Indices Based on ECMWF Reanalysis” in Scientific Data as part of the activities under the CENTAUR Horizon Europe project.  The paper introduces a global dataset for long-term drought monitoring from 1940 to the present. Derived from the European Centre for Medium-Range …

The new ERA5–Drought Dataset Supports CENTAUR’s Work on Food and Water Security Read More »

On 11 April 2025, the CENTAUR Horizon Europe project hosted an online meeting with Advisory Board members to present the outcomes of the Demo Review for Cold Cases (DR-CC) and the Preliminary Demo Results Evaluation (PDRE). The session provided an opportunity to review the implementation of cold cases (focused on historical crisis scenarios) and to …

CENTAUR Project Reaches Milestones with Cold Case Review and Hot Case Evaluation  Read More »