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 Klimatorium and its impact!
Briefly introduce your organisation
Klimatorium is about developing and testing new solutions within water, environment, climate change, sustainability and nature based solutions. Klimatorium is connecting business, academia, civil society and authorities, and has an annual attendance of 30.000+ by project partners, business members, host venues and plain visitors.
Klimatorium has been appointed national adaptation hub under the Horizon Europe programme, EU Climate Pact Partner, Danish national Nature Base Solution, NBS, hub among a broad ongoing project portfolio comprising the annual National Climate Summit.
Introduce the team working on PCP WISE within your organisation
Lars Nørgård Holmegaard, CEO and founder of Klimatorium, CEO of Lemvig Water Utility, board member of DANVA the national branch organization of utilities, chairman of the national utilities digitization board VANDUG.
Laurits Bernitt, Hydraulic Engineer by Lemvig W ater. Specialised in hydraulic engineering, hydrology, coastal engineering, survey and monitoring, data management, hydraulic modelling and simulation, design conditions and risk analysis.
What is your organisation’s role in the project? What unique contribution does it bring to PCP WISE?
Klimatorium/Lemvig Water belongs to the PCP WISE buyers group and is hosting PCP WISE Use Case 5 about Rural drought, flooding and subsidence in its Living Lab. Living Lab comprises the entire 505 km2 of Lemvig municipality, cities, townships, arable land, infrastructure and nature.
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? 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 is expanding the available information and knowledge by Earth Observing EO satellite data. Data and models are integrated into new models and new decision support tools for both emergency management and long-term planning. By procurement of competitive innovation among Europes most competent consortia it is very likely that new options and standards for adaptation and mitigation of climate change will be set.
