Over the past few weeks, several consortium ports have hosted local stakeholder workshops as part of Project CLARION. These sessions provided an overview of the project’s goals and structure, fostering engagement and collaboration among attendees.
Port of Hamburg
The workshop provided attendees with an overview of Project’s overall goals and structure. Following this, the organisers presented their plans for Project Demonstrators 4 (Flood impact control) and 8 (Digital Twin for extreme weather forecasting), as well as the specific areas of interest for the invited stakeholders. Port of Hamburg also sought initial feedback on their current plans for the commencement of development work in March 2025. Several attendees expressed their willingness to review and validate the models used for simulation and scenario testing, offering valuable contributions to the project’s next phases.
Port of Rotterdam
During the workshop, Port of Rotterdam presented the four pilot demonstrations planned for the Port of Rotterdam area. Stakeholders, including business partners, research institutes, and government officials, were invited to participate in the session. The objective was not only to inform them about the planned activities but also to gather valuable feedback to support the successful execution of the demonstrations. Following the workshop, stakeholders will receive a questionnaire designed to collect their input. This approach ensures that all relevant aspects are thoroughly considered before the activities commence.
Port of Constanta
The meeting enjoyed the virtual presence of 30 participants from various backgrounds such as maritime and inland port operators.The main objective of the workshop was the general presentation of the CLARION project, as well as of the Project Demonstrator 9 – Federated learning for cadastral measurements and inland water level forecasting which will be carried out by the Constanta Port administration together with its technical partner ICCS (Greece). This demonstrator will allow the implementation a synergistic framework to combine openly available polarimetry data coming from the Copernicus Sentinel-6 missions with in-situ sensors data, in a common processing cycle, towards the extraction of inland water level predictions and cadastral measurements at the Port of Constanta. The pilot ideas presented referred to port vulnerabilities related to climate change, prediction of unmonitored river-related variables (water depth, water flow) along the Cernavoda Lock – Galati Port pathway, as part of Constanta Port hinterland, and cadastral mapping scenarios using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).The end of the workshop was an interactive one, organized by ICCS, which invited the participants to fill in a live questionnaire designed to identify the participants’ feedback, especially regarding the proposed pilot project ideas.The event ended on an optimistic note in the hope that the group of stakeholders will become bigger and more and more interested in the CLARION project over the 4 years of implementation, in which they will be periodically invited to interact with the CLARION project and team.
