CoCliCo: It’s Our Final Year! What Can You Expect?

2024: CoCliCo Milestones and What’s Next

As CoCliCo moves into its final year, we are excited to share the progress we’ve made and what lies ahead as we continue to support coastal regions with data and tools to help them manage coastal risk and adapt to climate change.

What We’ve Achieved So Far

1. Data Integration:
   • CoCliCo continues to consolidate extensive datasets on coastal hazards (sea level rise, flooding, and erosion), and exposure of assets. These datasets form the backbone of our platform’s risk assessment and visualization capabilities​​. The full set of datasets will be freely available with the launch of the platform. 
   • Key milestones include the integration of Pan-European storm surge projections and infrastructure vulnerability data to assess risks across multiple scales​​.
2. Platform Development:
   • The Fast-Track version enabled early stakeholder testing and feedback. Now, our Full-Track platform is under development, featuring enhanced exploratory tools, a refined user interface, and support for integrated scenarios​​​. This is currently being further refined in collaboration with our Champion Users.
   • Our “Workbench” will allow technical users to easily navigate the datasets and utilize them with customizable tools to analyze and visualize risks tailored to their specific needs​​.
3. Stakeholder Engagement:
   • Extensive collaboration with policymakers, urban planners, and researchers has driven the platform’s co-design process, ensuring its functionality meets real-world requirements​​.
   • Workshops, surveys, and validation sessions have ensured usability and accessibility for diverse stakeholders, including coastal engineers, decision-makers, and emergency planners​.
4. Co-Design and Testing:
   • Rich User Narratives have driven the development of tailored features of the Full-Track platform, focusing on flood risk mapping to support the EU Floods Directive, coastal city planning, and infrastructure resilience.

What’s Next?

1. Upcoming Features:
   • The Full-Track platform, which includes tools to inspect sea level rise projections and coastal flood risk analysis as well as coastal erosion information, will be finalized by early 2025. 
   • Upcoming features include a scenario-based Web Viewer and integrated data layers that offer actionable insights for policy and planning​​.
     • Implementation of ~5 core user stories.
     • Validation of integrated scenarios.
     • Delivery of exploratory tools for users to visualize and analyze risks
2. Engagement and Validation:
   • Validation workshops and an interactive event in March 2025 will provide stakeholders with hands-on opportunities to test the platform​ and inform the final steps before launch. You can join online on Wednesday, March 5, 2025, from 10:00 to 12:00. Registration is open; sign up here. 
   • Dedicated content campaigns will introduce the platform’s features, including its ability to model and mitigate risks from sea level rise, flooding, and infrastructure exposure​.
3. Final Event & Public Launch in Brussels:
   • The official public launch is scheduled for 23-25 June 2025 in Brussels, where we will showcase the platform’s full capabilities​​.
4. Beyond Project Lifetime:
   • Post-project, we aim to integrate CoCliCo into Copernicus, ensuring long-term impact and usability. As a first step, we anticipate an integration within the European Digital Twin of the Ocean. 

How CoCliCo Can Help You

CoCliCo enables users to:

• Visualize sea level rise and flood risk data for evidence-based planning.
• Support cost-benefit analyses for coastal adaptation strategies and investments.
• Help policymakers and planners design resilient coastal strategies using state-of-the-art information​​.

Be the first to hear of the launch! 

The CoCliCo platform is shaping up to be a transformative tool for coastal risk management. As we refine and prepare for launch, we invite you to stay connected, provide feedback, and join our efforts to enhance coastal resilience.Be the first to hear about the launch of the CoCliCo platform by subscribing to our newsletter!