Super Users

In ASPECT, Super Users are organisations that work closely with researchers to co-produce climate information spanning from seasons to decades, which can help make better informed decisions for adaptation, enhancing resilience to climate change and extreme weather.

ASPECT strives to develop useful and usable climate information and products that will benefit various organisations, to which Super Users will play a crucial role, as their involvement will be key to ensure that project outputs match their needs of climate-related information.

Super Users work directly with leading climate scientists from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain), the Met Office (United Kingdom), and the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (Italy). This helps them develop their understanding on extreme weather and climate risks, as well as on the benefits that climate information can provide for the adaptation of their activities.

In the project, case studies will be developed together with the Super Users, which will allow assessing the usability, socio-economic benefits and added value of seamless climate information.

Our Super Users are from a range of societally important sectors, including agriculture, finance and governance. The specific needs of each user related to different timescales are displayed below.

Meet the team

"Climate is an important factor in wine production, with climate change risking grape crops. ASPECT will provide information on spring frosts and water availability over the coming seasons and years, helping Codorníu make decisions to adapt to climate variability and change."
Xavi Bordes
Xavi BordesIrrigation Technician, Codorniu
"Climate change can impact a wide range of pension fund investments. ASPECT can provide improved climate information to better understand these risks enabling better risk management and support effective investment decision making."
Professor Iain Clacher
Professor Iain ClacherPensions expert, University of Leeds & Centre for Greening Financial Investments
"The EU Mission on adaptation to climate change helps regions understand climate risks and supports them toward climate adaptation. ASPECT is working with the Mission’s project CLIMAAX to incorporate climate predictions into a new framework and toolkit for regional and local climate risk assessments."
Cinzia Alessandrini
Cinzia Alessandrini Regional Agency for Environment, Prevention and Energy of Emilia Romagna Region
"Save the Children is excited to be working with the European project ASPECT in improving our response to the health and nutritional impacts of climate change on children and communities."
Dr Revati Phalkey
Dr Revati PhalkeyGlobal Director Health and Nutrition, Save the Children International
"Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies around the world help people prepare for, respond to and recover from extreme weather-related disasters such as droughts, heatwaves, wildfires and floods. The British Red Cross currently uses weather and climate information in short term decision-making and seasonal planning. Working with ASPECT will help us use climate information in longer term adaptation planning and decision-making."
Dr Ellie Murtagh
Dr Ellie MurtaghUK Climate Adaptation Lead, British Red Cross
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