In collaboration with the projects DOLFINS, CIMPLEX, ODYCCEUS, CoEGSS, EFFECT and VERTIGO, we held our closure conference on December 11 and 12 in Brussels. For more information, please click the dedicated tab above.
Some pictures of GRACeFUL’s presence at the event:
Last week Sadie McEvoy (Deltares) represented GRACeFUL at the annual workshop of the Society for Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty.
GRACeFUL is present these days at the Delft Software Days on the premises of Deltares in Delft. The event brings all the latest insights in open software developments, best modelling practices and the most powerful pre- and post-processing tools in the field of geohydrology, surface-water hydrology, hydrodynamics, morphology, water quality & ecology, and data sciences, for rivers, lakes, and ocean, coastal, estuarine, urban and industrial environments.
GRACeFUL is currently represented at ECCA 2017 in Glasgow.
Deltares’ Sadie McEvoy talking about Group Model Building
The theme of ECCA 2017 is ‘Our Climate Ready Future’. This conference inspires and enables people to work together to discover and deliver positive climate adaptation solutions that can strengthen society, revitalise local economies and enhance the environment. It brings together the people who will deliver action on the ground – from business, industry, NGOs, local government and communities – to share knowledge, ideas and experience with leading researchers and policymakers. ECCA 2017 is held in Europe but the focus is global, with presenters from 48 countries on five continents.
GRACeFUL is having it’s second review by monitors of the European Commission in Brussels this week. Good luck to all participants.
GRACeFUL will be present at the 2016 Conference on Complex Systems in a poster by our project partner Radboud University. http://www.ccs2016.org/poster-281-285-289-291-293.html
This is the 22nd edition of the annual conference on all aspects of computing with constraints, including: theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planning. http://cp2016.a4cp.org/
A 3-day System Dynamics Summer School will be hosted (July 13-15 2016, Delft) at the venue of the International System Dynamics Conference (ISDC) right before the start of the conference (July 17-21 2016, Delft). The theme of the summer school is in line with the theme of the conference. The summer school will focus specifically on approaches for dealing with uncertainty (grey and black swans) and for dealing with actors in participatory and political processes.
GRACeFUL members will be present and participate.
Adaptation Futures is the biennial conference of the Global Programme of Research on Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts and Adaptation (PROVIA). In 2016 the European Commission and the Government of the Netherlands co-host the fourth edition. Adaptation Futures 2016 is where scholars, practitioners, policymakers and business people from all around the world go to connect, learn and inspire. It highlights adaptation practices and solutions for people, governments and businesses.
Presentations by Sadie McEvoy and Michiel Blind:
The GRACeFUL project develops connections between functional and constraint programming, requiring a unified expression of programs, constraints, traditional numerical mathematical models and qualitative models. The members of the IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi have developed a large body of expertise in the design of notations for calculating programs from specifications, covering all programming paradigms. Such a notation could provide the glue between functional and constraint programming, required in GRACeFUL. On the other hand, the various programs developed in GRACeFUL can provide a test-bed for the notation and suggest extensions or improvements to it. The aim of this workshop is to create a close connection between GRACeFUL and IFIP2.1. The workshop is co-located with the 73rd IFIP WG 2.1 meeting organised in Göteborg.
GRACeFUL will be present at RRI-ICT 2015, co-organised by European Commission’s DG Connect and the RRI-ICT Forum project, which will kick-start the implementation of the Responsible Research and Innovation approach, and the contribution of Social Sciences and Humanities to ICT research and innovation under H2020. It will gather the RRI-ICT community to jointly identify challenges, share knowledge and experiences, network, and build synergies around the RRI/SSH domain.
The GRACeFUL project will participate in the Workshop: “Enabling Effective Policy Making – Coupling the Power of the Data with the Wisdom of the Crowd”
A student workshop Climate Resilient Urban Design on May 7th was used to test the applicability of group model building in CRUD, to identify causal loop diagrams and concept maps. The workshop addressed climate resilience of the Stadspolders area in Dordrecht. Over 50 MSc students in Urban Water Management from the faculties of Civil Engineering, Architecture/ Urbanism and Policy & Management at TU Delft worked in groups that each used a slightly different approach to the assignment.
Last February the project was kicked off successfully during a 3-day meeting on the premises of Deltares in Delft. Consortium members also did a field trip to the city of Dordrecht.
Members of the GRACeFUL consortium participate in the Workshop in Systems Thinking/Group Model Building.
20 and 21 April 2015, Systemisches Zentrum, Wiesbaden
http://www.systemdynamics.de/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/2015-flyer-workshop-Systems-Thinking.pdf
The third issue of the GRACeFUL Newsletter has just been published. You can download it here.
The second issue of the GRACeFUL Newsletter has just been published. You can download it here.
The first issue of the GRACeFUL Newsletter has just been published. You can download it here.