The Solaris Advisory Committee
As part of its dissemination and societal impact strategy, the SOLARIS team organised an advisory committee
Who are they?
The advisory committee aims the involvement of external stakeholders during the project and the production of results. This committee is composed of one national Flood Risk Manager practitioner and one academic expert from each of the countries (8 people):
- One representative of the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture, Water Resources Specialist (Finland)
- One representative of the Helsinki Region Environmental Services Authority, Climate change adaptation (Finland)
- One representative of the Environment Agency, Principal Scientist, Flood & Coastal Risk Management Research (England)
- One representative of the University of Nottingham, School of Geography Assistant Professor in Human Geography (England)
- One representative of the University of Antwerpen, Faculty of Social Sciences (Belgium)
- One representative of the Flemish Environmental Agency, head of the department responsible for both Management & Investment in Watercourses and Communication (Belgium)
- One representative of the Central Reinsurance Fund Head of Public Funds and Prevention Department (France)
- One representative of the INRAE, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, Director of Research, Sociologist (France)
First advisory committee
During the Consortium meeting in Antwerp (September, 2022), SOLARIS researchers organized the first advisory committee. They presented ongoing work and provisional findings.
This first experience provided precise information on the scientific and social challenges of the project. For example, the discussion focused on the need to refine our methodology in the comparison between countries. The discussion also focused on the social challenges of the project, which is to integrate water management to better address justice issues.
