OpenNESS officially started during a two-day meeting in snowy Helsinki

On 12 and 13 March 2013, OpenNESS celebrated its official kick-off in Helsinki, Finland. Almost 100 participants from the consortium consisting of 25 research institutes and 10 SMEs from 22 European and four non-European countries were hosted at the Helsinki House of the Estates by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), the OpenNESS coordinating body.

The aim of the kick-off was to meet each other, get a better understanding of the OpenNESS concept and its policy and research challenges, as well as an overview of the tasks under each work package. During break-out sessions each work package had a facilitated session about its approach, methodology and working structure. Also possible collaboration and cross-cutting themes between the work packages were identified.

Central to OpenNESS is the multi-scale case study approach, designed to ground concepts and theories on real world observations and analysis. More than 30 representatives of these case studies and SMEs attended the kick-off meeting. During a very interactive and fun 'understanding case studies' session, all of them were introduced to the whole consortium.

Detailed information about each case study will be added to this website soon!

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Photo: The OpenNESS kick-off participants © Riku Lumiaro, SYKE