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CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS

Participation and Innovation

What distinguishes mareXtreme from other research missions are our three integrative mission-defining Cross-Cutting Topics (CCTs), which act as a bridge between the projects. These cross-cutting topics achieve unique synthesis achievements that lead to new scientific insights and shape mission-oriented research. So far, we have identified three cross-cutting topics, which are briefly outlined below:

CCT - Participation and Living Labs

mareXtreme is developing its own transdisciplinary approach tailored to marine extremes that redefines cooperation between science and society. In so-called “living labs”, researchers, local stakeholders and multipliers from the population work together on an equal footing to find solutions for specific risks. This approach goes far beyond traditional participation formats and comprises three phases:

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  • Co-design: Joint problem definition and team building

  • Co-production: Collaborative creation and testing of solution knowledge

  • Co-evaluation: Joint evaluation and application of results

 

Long-term local engagement creates socially robust solutions that are actually accepted and implemented by decision-makers and society and will lead to an increase in the resilience (empowerment) of fragile coastal communities in the long term.

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CCT - Generic concept for early warning systems

mareXtreme is developing a novel, transferable concept for end-to-end early warning systems (EWS) that can be adapted for various extreme marine events and is being further developed on the basis of the United Nations' EarlyWarnings4all idea (https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/early-warnings-for-all). Particular attention is paid to the aspects:

 

  • Technological innovation: integration of smart sensing, AI and citizen science

  • Knowledge transfer: open interfaces and data standards for overarching systems 

  • Last-mile problem: solutions at the interface between technical warning, information dissemination, perception/understanding and actual action


This integrated approach enables the development of more efficient warning systems with shorter response times and greater social acceptance and implementation effectiveness.

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CCT - Marine Extremes and Impacts

mareXtreme develops a comprehensive systemic understanding of extreme marine events based on the IPCC approach to risk management. The holistic view of the interactions includes
 

  • Reliable detection of extreme events of various types: use of data archives and current observations

  • Dynamic exposure and vulnerability analyses: who and what is affected?

  • Cascading effects and interrelated extremes: How do extreme events cause and reinforce each other?

  • Adaptation strategies: What measures can increase resilience? 


An integrated view of natural and social systems is used to develop transferable options for action for different geographical and social contexts.

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