Who are the PCP WISE partners driving innovation in water management and climate resilience across Europe through Pre-Commercial Procurement?
Our Partner Interview Series highlights the leading organisations in the PCP WISE consortium, showcasing their expertise, contributions, and key roles in the project.
Each partner also shares its vision of how PCP WISE advances the European Green Deal’s objectives—whether by leveraging Environmental Observation (EO) data to tackle critical challenges or pioneering innovative governance and procurement approaches like PCP.
🔍 Discover our latest interview to learn more about Climate KIC and its impact!
Briefly introduce your organisation
Climate KIC, a non-profit foundation registered in the Netherlands, is Europe’s leading climate innovation agency and community, creating climate-resilient societies and addressing climate breakdown by mobilising systems change across countries, regions, cities and businesses. It works across innovation, education, entrepreneurship and policy co-creation to accelerate climate-resilient transformation, supported by a large pan-European partner network of public authorities, research institutions, industry and civil-society organisations.
Introduce the team working on PCP WISE within your organisation
Antonia Matthies, Climate and Earth Observation Officer
Expertise: Engaging key stakeholders of PCP WISE (buyers, users, suppliers) to understand their climate related needs and requirements and ensuring the tool portfolio developed under PCP WISE meets those needs as best as possible
Stefka Domuzova, Climate and Earth Observation Orchestrator
Expertise: Climate Services and Earth Observation: capacity building and markets.
Anastasia Dagla, Climate and Earth Observation Officer
Expertise: Translation of Earth Observation and climate data into decision-ready insights.
What is your organisation’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to PCP WISE?
Climate KIC leads WP5 Climate relevance and impact of end-user service portfolio in PCP WISE, with the goal of enabling the climate relevance of the climate service tool portfolio created to support regional climate adaptation. WP5 works to ensure that PCP WISE incorporates climate considerations as a criterion throughout all stages of the PCP process, ensuring climate impact is central to user interactions and requirement collection for enhancing climate service portfolios. Close collaboration with relevant partners (buyers, users, suppliers) throughout the three PCP phases will ensure iterative, user-led guidance for solutions that address specific local climate risks and their systemic interactions, fostering a comprehensive approach to climate resilience. WP5 works closely with buyers and consortium partners to embed climate relevance into end-user portfolios, promoting systemic and long-term climate resilience.
To what extent do you think PCP WISE will contribute to enhance Europe’s ability to adapt to and mitigate the effect of climate change?
Europe will need to prepare for more frequent and intense floods, droughts, wildfires, and other water-related crises and climate impacts. Effective adaptation to this new reality requires timely, location-specific information and collaboration across sectors and borders. Through the PCP approach, PCP WISE enables public authorities to co-design and test innovative solutions that improve how they monitor, predict, and respond to these climate-related water challenges. The goal of this newly developed solution is to enable key stakeholders facing difficult climate adaptation and mitigation decisions to back up their policy efforts with sound Earth Observation data.
To what extent do you think Environmental Observation (EO) and Innovation Procurement (IP) can help develop innovative solutions for water management and climate resilience across Europe?
PCP WISE focuses on developing interoperable information products and a shared water intelligence system that supports decision-making at local and regional levels. These innovative tools will help relevant stakeholders and decision makers better anticipate extreme events and guide their long-term planning for water management and climate resilience across Europe.
