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Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur
Type of organisation : City

The Métropole Nice Côte d'Azur is a French intercommunal structure, located in the Alpes-Maritimes department and the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, around the city of Nice. It was set up on 31 December 2011 and is the result of the merger of the Nice Côte d'Azur urban community (NCA) with three communities of communes in the Alpes-Maritimes2. It includes 51 municipalities and 553,305 inhabitants, on a teritory of 1,479.73 km2. 


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GECOsistema Srl
Type of organisation : Public company

GECOsistema is a specialist company providing advanced engineering cloud-web, data-science and modeling studies and services in the field of environmental, climate risk and geospatial intelligence.

We combine advanced data science and machine learning, environmental modelling, GIS and Geospatial Analysis tools, remote sensing, predictive analytics, to give you the critical insight you need into environmental, climate and geospatial issues.

GECOsistema promotes and pursues the development of Innovative products and services through the active participation to EU (Horizon2020/Europe) funded research projects.

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City of Haarlem
Type of organisation : City

 The City of Haarlem is a Coordinator of the Urban Agenda Partnership on Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement, established in 2017. The City of Haarlem has a long-term vision on Circularity, Sustainability, Smart-City, stimulation of SMEs and start-ups. The aim is to procure 100% circular in 2030. This goal can be achieved by using Innovative and Responsible Public Procurement as a strategic tool. 

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Région SUD-Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Type of organisation : Region

Région SUD is the regional council of the administrative region of Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur in South Eastern France. 

Its activities is to provide public services while promoting general interest of its inhabitants, as well as their well-being and equal chances. 
Third region of France in terms of population, its economic dynamism contributes to French development, as 7% of French GDP is produced in Région SUD.

Région SUD is in charge of policies revolving around daily concerns of its inhabitants, as highschools, vocational training and learning, regional public transports, employement and economic development, culture, sports... 

Région SUD is divided in six "départements" : Alpes-de-Haute Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Bouches-du-Rhône, Hautes-Alpes, Vaucluse et Var.

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City of Cannes
Type of organisation : City

Cannes is a city of 75,000 inhabitants located in the south of France on the French Riviera. The economic environment of the city is based on tourism, business fairs, trade and aviation. Cannes is the host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.

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G.A.C. Group - PROTECT Coordinator
Type of organisation : Other

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Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre
Type of organisation : Other


Situated in the town of Bamfield, within the traditional territory of the Huu-ay-aht First Nations in Barkley Sound, and adjacent the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, BMSC offers unparalleled access to a wide array of environments – including unique coastal, marine and rainforest habitats and exceptional species diversity.

Perched on the outer west coast of Vancouver Island, BMSC provides access to a remarkable diversity of marine, terrestrial, freshwater and cultural sites of the North East Pacific basin. With 3000 sq m of modern laboratory space it can support research in almost any field of study for all member and non-member users.

BMSC was established in 1972 by the Western Canadian Universities Marine Sciences Society (WCUMSS) in order to provide a permanent base for marine and coastal-oriented field operations on the west coast of Canada. WCUMSS is a not-for-profit, registered Canadian charity that is responsible for the oversight and governance of the BMSC.



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HD Rain
Type of organisation : Other

HD Rain has developed sophisticated weather measurement and prediction models that combine AI, machine learning algorithms, and opportunistic satellite signal attenuation detection to measure, analyze, certify, and forecast all types of weather events with an unparalleled accuracy of 500 meters and 1 minute. 

Since our creation in 2018, we've worked across the world with cities, governments, and companies on the following topics: 
  • Flood mapping and prediction;
  • Climate resilient water solutions (predicting, collecting data, planning);
  • Fires prediction & prevention (doubt clearance & real-time follow-up)
  • Sustainable & resilient infrastructure in vulnerable urban & regional areas (urban heat waves measurements, analysis, and territory design recommendations). 

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SKYLD LTD
Type of organisation : Other

SKYLD Security and Defence is an ICT and consulting company, that specialises in Homeland Security including public safety, crisis management, critical infrastructure protection and Defence. SKYLD services include capability development, expert consultation on business excellence, systems & operations as well as project governance for private and government organisations.
 SKYLD is focusing on developing and marketing novel ICT solutions, in pursuit of advancing emerging technologies and developing cutting-edge solutions in the security and defence domain and is operated by a number of employees with extensive experience in the respective fields. 

Support services in acquisition and integration of: 

·         border & coastal protection systems,
·         critical infrastructure protection systems, 
·         command and control systems, 
·         specialized defense and public safety systems, 
·         incident management systems, 
·         physical security and cyber security systems. 
 
Skyld also develops custom software for customers looking for specializedand cost-effective solutions.
SKYLD offers:
1.       Software Development
·         Design & Development of Responsive – Resilient – Elastic – Message-based systems
·         Design & Development of Highly Available Applications at Scale Full Stack Development
·         Mobile Applications Development
·         Heterogeneous Systems Integration by utilizing state of the art frameworks
2.User interfaces and Visualization Tools
·         intuitive and engaging user interfaces that enable seamless user experiences across a variety of platforms and devices
·         front-end development and implementation.
·         Fusion capabilities of data, video, etc, through heterogenous sensors
3. UAVs (offering cutting-edge technology solutions using both VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) and multirotor UAVs.
·         aerial photography and aerial video, mapping and surveying, 3D modeling and visualization, asset inspection, and emergency response.
4.Video Analytics (detect – track and trace - classify objects) assisted by Machine learning and AI

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LUP - Luftbild Umwelt Planing GmbH
Type of organisation : Private company with a public mandate

We provide satellite based services relevant to climate adaptation as a means of action in municipal administration and planning processes such as urban green volume, canopy cover, tree vitality, land surface temperatures, surface sealing, soil moisture and heat vulnerability indices.

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TECNALIA R&I
Type of organisation : Private company with a public mandate

TECNALIA (www.tecnalia.com) is a private, independent, non-profit foundation of international excellence with more than 25 years´ experience. TECNALIA is the largest centre of applied research and technological development in Spain and a benchmark in Europe. We collaborate with companies and institutions to improve their competitiveness, people's quality of life and achieve sustainable growth. We do it thanks to a team made up of more than 1,500 people (44% women – 56% men) who are passionate about technology and committed to building a better society. 

Our main scopes of action are: Smart Manufacturing Digital Transformation, Energy Transition, Sustainable Mobility, Health and Urban Ecosystem.

Our mission is to transform technological research into prosperity; TECNALIA's research has a real impact on society and generates benefits in the form of quality of life and progress. And we work with the purpose of building a better world through technological research and innovation.
The Climate Change Adaptation Group within the Department of Energy, Climate and Urban Transition, embraces 14 researchers (5 PhD) with a multidisciplinary background from Biologists, Geographers, Spatial Planners, Engineers to Physics and Environmentalists. The group holds a proficient and consistent record of applied research projects. We work with public and private organisations to help cities and territories address environmental, social and economic challenges, using data, technologies and innovation to improve urban planning and management decision making

 

- Impact modelling (to assess heat stress /surface water runoff) and effectiveness assessment of adaptation measures.

 - Automatization of indicators-based spatially explicit vulnerability and risk assessment under climate change scenarios 

- Climate adaptative planning with special focus on the design of flexible adaptation pathways. 

- Nature-based Solutions as climate resilient measures, effectiveness and co-benefits and innovative planning for their implementation. 

- Development of dashboards and climate services for different sectors (i.e. land use, infrastructures, energy, forestry), including development of ad hoc products in the framework of Copernicus Climate Change Service.

 - Mainstreaming climate change perspective into spatial and urban formal planning instruments 

- Climate proofing infrastructures and energy assets





- Climate proofing infrastructures and energy assets



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PRIOT Digital Systems
Type of organisation : Other

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the climate data factory
Type of organisation : Other

Climate data for your project, service, or application.
We help organizations seamlessly integrate ready-to-use, fit-for-purpose, enhanced climate projections and forecasts and empower them to better anticipate their climate risks or those of their clients. By leveraging the latest developments in climate science, we provide actionable data that enables the identification and quantification of future climate hazards to support climate risk assessments in the context of strategic or regulatory requirements.

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Uptoearth GmbH
Type of organisation : Other

UptoEarth GmbH (UTE) is a German SME founded and incubated in the CESAH, the ESA Business Incubation Centre (ESA BIC) of Hessen & Baden-Württemberg region in 2019 and today is part of the ESA BIC Alumni Network.
UTE provides consultancy in the areas of aerospace, earth observation, agriculture, biomass estimation for bioenergy, environmental protection, blue growth, green infrastructures and smart cities. It aims at providing effective solutions to mitigate and reverse Climate Change effects and promoting more sustainable approaches and practices.
UTE core business is satellite monitoring of organic carbon sequestered from the soil: since 2018, it has developed expertise and know-how on soil carbon sequestration from satellites, developing several proprietary instruments and algorithms for SOC and soil density estimation and it has created cutting-edge datasets that help companies make more accurate data-driven decisions for carbon storage projects.

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Gisaia
Type of organisation : Other

We are a geo big data technology and service provider. 
We help organisations build scalable solutions to leverage geospatial intelligence for decision-making.

Our team of data engineers, data scientists and web platform developers have extensive experience working with diverse geospatial data —satellite, in-situ and others— to facilitate easy exploration, visualisation and analysis. We have worked with both private and public sectors, building solutions for diverse use like pollution monitoring, grid mapping for telecommunication, asset tracking and others remote sensing services.

We have our own open source solution, ARLAS, to accelerate and guarantee reliable geodata platform development. ARLAS is a turnkey solution that is also highly customisable, interoperable, and easy to use. This is coupled with support and data science services for reliable insights. ARLAS is data agnostic which means that it can be used to build geoanalytics applications drawing from diverse geospatial data.


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Origins.earth
Type of organisation : Municipality


Origins mission is to empower cities and territories to reach their climate neutrality targets by providing precise evaluations of public policies on greenhouse gases

We have therefore devevelopped a user-friendly tool, based on fully automated real-time Greenhouse Gas atmospheric measurements, offering a unique interface for public communication, making climate action accessible to all.

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