What We Achieve

Germ of Life provides newly developed solutions capable to support regional stakeholders in:

Drought Risk Prediction: Preventing by adopting AI and data-driven early warning systems through remote sensing and exploitation of new data that are potentially useful for drought impact detection and quantification.

Collaboratively assess vulnerability risk: increase cooperation in joint risk management and support decision making, for example, in planning, assessment, sharing of SBN performance results and impact evidence base through data monitoring.

Procuring innovative solutions: supporting authorities to implement strategies and plans, including appropriate technologies and NbS to mitigate the impact of drought.

Germ of Life expects to build and technologically evolve an existing practice tested in the Interreg project DriDanube where an operational model for the implementation of a proactive drought management has been established in Danube regions. Germ of Life will make a step forward in the automation and precision of the state of soil and vegetation risk assessment thanks to advances in analysis and actionable knowledge from the monitoring and data-driven solutions in place.

Prediction will be based on the identification of drought events performed by analysing their key characteristics: magnitude and duration (combined to quantify the intensity), frequency, timing, concatenation/fluctuation dynamics and spatial extent.