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CiROCCO travelled to the Netherlands to participate in the EuroGeo Workshop 2025, which took place October 13-15.​

Our project took part in the Technical Session titled “: In situ technologies for hard to reach or under sampled areas: the benefit and challenges of low-cost sensors”, which brought together seven Horizon Europe projects that focus on developing new technologies and covering gaps in-situ data. The projects first took stock of the progress and challenges in optimizing technologies and adapting them to specific environments or extreme conditions and hard to reach/under sampled areas. Secondly, the projects explained how these in-situ sensors and integrated systems are combined with other data (e.g. Copernicus services) towards operational monitoring. The projects also shared challenges linked to validation, interoperability and synchronisation between in-situ and other networks. Finally, there was a roundtable and interactions with the audience dedicated to users ‘needs and future exploitation, including commercialisation and sustainability after the EU Horizon funding.

The session was moderated by representatives of the Research Executive Agency and the following speakers presented:

● Maria Jose Escorihuela, isardSAT, UAWOS

● Tuan Vu Cao, The Climate and Environmental Research Institute (NILU), MISO

● Mikhail Sofiev, Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), SYLVA

● Georgio Tsimiklis, Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS), Cirocco

● Isabelle Picard, Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), ScaleAGData

● Luca Belelli Marchesini, Fondazione Edmund Mach, REMOTREES

● Nick van de Giesen, TU Delft, TEMBO Africa