During the 12th and 13th of May, the kick-off meeting of the BRIGAID project took place at the Technical University of Delft (Netherlands). This EU-Horizon2020 project supports those innovations which aim to reduce the impacts of floods, droughts and extreme weather events. The BRIGAID’s mission is to turn already existing prototypes into market-ready products. This is not only done by actually improving innovations, but also by developing methods to assess their effectiveness and make innovations fit with organizational needs of end-users. The project covers technical as well as non-technical and eco-systems based innovations. Early involvement of end users is key to successful innovation.
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FutureWater will have an important role in BRIGAID through the coordination of the Work Package on “Innovations for Droughts”, but also developing and testing two drought-based solutions: a) a drought monitoring and forescasting system based on the combination of satellite data, seasonal climate forescasts, and water allocation modelling tools, and b) a Decision Support System for the smart agricultural water management based on hyperspatial information from flying sensors (UAVs), agromodeling tools and web-mapping technologies.
BRIGAID welcomes innovators from outside the project to participate. As a unique and innovative element, micro-funding of innovations is available for testing and improvements of these innovations. Please contact with Sergio Contreras for more details about BRIGAID.