{"id":2155,"date":"2022-01-24T12:36:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acccflagship.fi\/?p=2155"},"modified":"2022-01-24T12:36:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T09:36:31","slug":"focusing-on-impact-of-science-on-society-the-first-accc-impact-week-was-organized-on-7-10-december-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.acccflagship.fi\/index.php\/2022\/01\/24\/focusing-on-impact-of-science-on-society-the-first-accc-impact-week-was-organized-on-7-10-december-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing on impact of science on society – The first ACCC Impact Week was organized on 7-10 December 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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During the first ACCC (Atmosphere Climate Competence Center) Impact Week we hosted series of talks and roundtable discussions bringing together the ACCC scientists and different society stakeholders who are interested in the practical solutions for climate change and air quality. The specific discussion themes focused on the carbon sink, agriculture lands and boreal forests, climate neutral cities and health, atmosphere-ecosystem measurement techniques and education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The first day was dedicated to the memorial seminar of the Russian physicist Sergei Zilitinkevich. He passed away in February 2021 and his passing was a big loss for the atmospheric sciences community in Finland and internationally. He made a huge impact not only on his scientific field in developing meteorological theories, but also connecting people and facilitating international research collaboration in the USA, Europe and Russia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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On the next day, Markku Kulmala and Sami Paatero launched the new ACCC Innovation Forum. It aims to become the future ACCC platform for the co-creation and interaction between researchers and public \/ private\u00a0 sector representatives. We also organized separate discussions in smaller groups with the stakeholders to boost the kick off of the new forum. \u00a0The third day was reserved for the Arctic science collaboration and discussios around the various aspects relevant for the future research agenda. On the last day, we focused on the opening the dialog between non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Finland. Collaboration with NGOs is a new opening of the ACCC flagship. For the NGOs, ACCC can offer new climate education tools, especially in the frame of Climate University activities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to Finnish communities, the ACCC impact week joined together various international collaborators, especially those who have been active in task forces within the ACCC Impact Program, namely Pan-Eurasian Experiment Program, Global-Observatory, Science Diplomacy and Climate University. Two specific meetings were also organized. The International Eurasian Academy (IEAS) joint meeting (7th<\/sup> Dec) with the Europe, Russia and China headquarters and academicians and the GlobalObservatory meeting (8th<\/sup> Wed) with participants representing different observation networks such as the European research infrastructure (ICOS, ACTRIS, eLTER), World Meteorological Organization (WMO) \u2013GAW, Black Sea SDG Observatory network and the Russian Carbon Polygon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The original plan was to organize a face-to-face meeting at the Sofia Cultural Center in Vuosaari, Helsinki with remote connections. However, as we learnt, the COVID-19 situation in Finland and outside Finland, got worse during the autumn. So we ended up organizing the event mostly on-line. Apogee Ltd. was in charge of live streaming from the small broadcasting studio based at the Sofia Cultural Center. The speakers gave their presentations on-site, but most of the talks were given remotely, across time zones from the USA, Canada, Europe, Russia and China. In spite of the challenging  situation, we still had few on-site visitors from Estonia, Switzerland and Russia. Based on the Apogee Ltd. statics, 1,412 participants from 37 countries in Europe, Asia and North America followed our online event during the four days. The ACCC Impact Week was organized in collaboration with the Pan-Eurasian Experiment Program HQ-Helsinki, International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), Sofia Cultural Center, Finnish Ecumenical Network (SEN) and Climate Leadership Coalition (CLC). The week was sponsored by the Wihuri Foundation and the Prince Albert Foundation in Monaco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection of talks are available on the ACCC YouTube channel<\/a> and the specific presentation files\u00a0 by request, by e-mail to the accc-virtual-office(at)helsinki.fi<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Tuesday, 7th<\/sup> December 2021, Prof. Bert Holtslag received the first Sergej Zilitinkevich award as a part of the Zilitinkevich memorial seminar programme. Holtslag is Emeritus Professor of Meteorology and former Chair of Meteorology and Air Quality Section at Wageningen University in the Netherlands (1999-2019). He has a large track record in the research and leadership of national and international projects and programs dealing with weather, air quality, climate process studies and modelling. His most notable contributions are related to understanding of atmosphere-land interactions, surface fluxes, and boundary layer processes, with implications to wind energy and urban meteorology. He is also known for co-chairing the GEWEX Atmospheric Boundary Layer Study (GABLS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sergej Zilitinkevich memorial award has been recently established by the Atmosphere and Climate Competence Center (ACCC), European Meteorological Society (EMS), Finnish Geophysical Society, Finnish Foundation for Aerosol Research (FAAR), International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS), National network  Institute for Atmospheric and Earth system research (INAR Finland) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO). With the reward, the institutes want to honour the research by the Russian physicists Sergej Zilitinkevich (1936-2021) (www.atm.helsinki.fi\/peex\/index.php\/portfolio-items\/sergej-zilitinkevich\/). The new Sergej Zilitinkevich Memorial award will be annually delivered to a creative scientist, who has made breakthroughs in atmospheric sciences or oceanography.  The Zilitinkevich memorial award acknowledges climate change, air quality research as fundamental assets in our route to find solution to grand global challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The joint International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS) <\/a>meeting between Europe, Russia and China headquarters was organized for the first time. All the headquarters introduced their recent activities and future plans. Also three new IEAS-Academicians) – Prof. Sylvain Joffre, Finnish Meteorological Institute (Finland), Prof. Vito Vitale, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (Italy), and Prof. Vladimir Katanaev, University of Geneva (Switzerland) and the Far Eastern Federal University (Russia) – introduced their research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Wednesday, 8th<\/sup> December, we focused on the Green Transition and presented the new \u201cACCC Innovation Forum\u201d. The aim of this new Forum is to detect, discuss and develop cooperation ideas with various partners. The Forum has several roles: It connects new stakeholders to the ACCC network; develops ideas from research to social, business and other innovations; facilitates concrete multi-stakeholder climate projects; enhances innovation processes related to atmospheric and climate sciences as well as promotes awareness of climate sciences in other fields of society and business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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