October 6-9, 2025 Dakar, Senegal AfriGEO is an initiative of the African continent developed within the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) framework, providing a coordination framework for Africa’s participation in GEO and  consists of Africa-based GEO member states (32) and over 15 participating regional institutions. AfriGEO symposia have served as platforms for networking, engagement, and … Continue reading “KADI at AfriGEO 2025”

The KADI project invites stakeholders from all domains, disciplines and sectors who are interested in the development and delivery of climate services to a hybrid stakeholder workshop held on August 14th 2025 (2-5pm EAT). At this workshop the KADI team will present the outputs of the project and will provide an opportunity for the wider … Continue reading “Final stakeholder workshop”

Are you a PhD or an early-career researcher working on themes related to urban climate resilience in Africa? Do you want to strengthen your skills in co-creating climate services with state-of-the-art open geospatial data, digital tools, fellow experts and community members? You are warmly welcome to apply for our training workshop where you will gain … Continue reading “Training workshop: urban climate services in Africa”

April 27 – May 2, 2025 Vienna, Austria The European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly brings together close to 20 000 geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists can present their work and discuss … Continue reading “KADI at EGU25”

May 16, 2025 14:00-15:30 CEST (UTC +2) webinar The coastal ocean plays a major role in the global carbon cycle by taking up and emitting significant amounts of carbon dioxide. Obtaining good estimates of this flux is key to managing climate change and needs quality observations at high resolution. Recent developments mean that key international … Continue reading “Surface ocean carbon measurements: a case study in Africa”

Welcome to the webinar “Bridging Data and Action: Leveraging Greenhouse Gas Research to Drive Policies and Renewable Energy in Africa” on 29th January 2025, 11:00-13:00 CET. This webinar is jointly organised by LEAP-RE programme and the KADI project and is aimed at EU-funded projects addressing climate-related topics in Africa. The LEAP-RE programme and the KADI … Continue reading “LEAP-RE and KADI joint Webinar: Bridging Data and Action in Africa”

KADI project strives to collaborate with different networks and projects on climate education. Because of that, we are excited to present a poster on knowledge exchange at the Climate University Annual Meeting to be held in Oulu 5.-7.11.2024. Climate University is a network of Finnish higher education institutions and other stakeholders to foster climate and … Continue reading “KADI at the Climate University Annual Meeting in Oulu, Finland”

Clustering Session 3: Energy Systems and Modelling with Considerations to Water-Energy-Food Nexus Date: October 10th Time: 16:30 – 18:00 CET KADI will participate in Session 3 of the  LEAP RE stakeholder forum with a presentation and a panel discussion. KADI’s participation will address the importance of the envisaged research infrastructure for energy systems modelling in … Continue reading “KADI at the LEAP RE stakeholder forum”

10-12th September, 2024 Palais des Congrès Versailles, France and online The 6th ICOS Science Conference will be held 10th-12th September 2024 at the Versailles Palais des Congrès, France, and online. This year’s theme is “From GHG observations through science to services”. The sessions chosen for this year’s conference reflect some highly topical issues as well … Continue reading “KADI at ICOS Science Conference”

13-14th August 2024 Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) Nairobi, Kenya The theme of RCMRD International Conference 2024 is “EARTH: Our only Home”. At the conference RCMRD and Partners provide you with an excellent opportunity to present your institution, innovations, share experiences, ideas, methods, technological advancements, and engage with key players from … Continue reading “KADI at RCMRD International Conference 2024”

12-15 August 2024 Regional Centre for Mapping of Resources for Development (RCMRD) Nairobi, Kenya AfriGEO is an initiative of the African Community in Group of Earth Observations (GEO) aimed at providing a coordination framework and platform for Africa’s participation in GEO. It aims to be a Pan African initiative to raise awareness and develop capacity … Continue reading “KADI at AfriGEO Symposium 2024”

Online workshop: Validating African climate service and research infrastructure needs and challenges July 1st (in English) 9am – 2pm SAST (UTC+2) – registration form July 8th (in French) 9am – 2pm GMT (UTC+0) – registration form KADI organises an online workshop in July 2024 to discuss, validate and improve findings from the project activities. We … Continue reading “KADI Stakeholder Cooperation”

The KADI project was represented at the 5th Africa Climate Talks at the 10th Session of the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development (ARFSD-10) in April 2024 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This article provides some context and highlights and interventions from the project’s perspective. Africa’s GDP is reduced by 5% annually because of climate change. … Continue reading “KADI at the Africa Regional Forum on Sustainable Development”

14-19th April, 2024 Vienna (Austria) and online The EGU General Assembly 2024 brings together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary, and space sciences. The EGU aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with … Continue reading “KADI at the EGU24”

COP28 side event, 6 December 2023, 16:45- 18:15 UTC+4 SE Room 6 and online ▶ Full programme here (PDF) ▶ See the concrete impact of local climate action in this Resilience Academy video Transformative climate services are crucial to leverage efficient climate mitigation actions. By mobilising available knowledge, resources and skills, accounting for local realities and using actual data from observations, … Continue reading “KADI side event at COP28: CLIMATE SERVICES FOR DECISION-MAKERS”

As part of the KADI project, we invite 15 participants from the African continent to join a four-day training course on coastal oceanographic and carbon data collection, analysis and sharing. The course will take place in Gqeberha, South Africa 12-15 March 2024. The course will encompass sensor overview, hands-on training, fieldwork, data collection, data analysis … Continue reading “Training course on coastal carbon science and monitoring (Algoa Bay, South Africa)”

To connect to and collaborate with the African earth observation community, KADI participated in the  7th symposium of the African Group on Earth Observations (AfriGEO) which held in Swakopmund, Namibia from 18-23rd September 2023. KADI was presented in the session, ‘Data and Infrastructure’ which focused on existing infrastructure, barriers to data sharing, best case scenarios … Continue reading "KADI Participation at the 7th Symposium of the African Group on Earth Observations"

Open Science Conference of the World Climate Research Programme October 23 - 27, 2023 The 2nd Open Science Conference of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) will take place in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Kigali Convention Centre (KCC), from 23 to 27 October 2023, hosted by the Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA) on behalf of … Continue reading "WCRP Open Science Conference"

26-27 October, 2023 KADI annual meeting will be held in Kigali, Rwanda at the Lemigo Hotel . It is an internal project meeting organised by ICOS ERIC.  

In collaboration with the European Commission’s Directorate General for International Partnerships, KADI co-organised a side event  at the GEO Week and ministerial summit which took place in Cape Town, South Africa from 6-10th November 2023. The theme of the side event was ‘Co-creating climate services from data to knowledge in Africa’. The event addressed the … Continue reading "KADI at the Group on Earth Observations Week and Ministerial Summit 2023"