Expanding Destination Earth: New Digital Twins for Climate, Urban and Weather Applications

10 July 2025 10:30–12:00

Online
REGISTER HERE
TerraDT webinar 10 july 2025

Background

At Trust-IT, we are committed to supporting climate science and making its insights accessible to the right audiences. Through our work in EU-funded projects like TerraDT, we help foster collaboration, amplify synergies, and engage key stakeholders across disciplines. The first TerraDT webinar reflects this approach: creating a space, from the very start of the project, to explore knowledge exchange and strategic cooperation across different initiatives in the same cluster.

In this case, we are glad to encourage a productive dialogue amongst 3 projects, funded under the Horizon Europe call HORIZON-INFRA-2024-TECH-01-03 (New Digital Twins for Destination Earth): TerraDT, UrbanAIR, and Weather Generator. These initiatives have been launched in January 2025 to address key gaps in the current Destination Earth system.

Destination Earth (DestinE) is Europe’s flagship initiative to build an interactive, high-precision digital model of the Earth. Through its federated infrastructure of Digital Twins (DTs), DestinE aims to enable better climate resilience and support decision-making in critical areas such as climate adaptation, risk management and sustainable development. Each of the projects participating in this webinar focuses on a distinct but complementary aspect of Earth system representation: the cryosphere and land surface (TerraDT), urban heat and air quality (UrbanAIR), and probabilistic weather and climate scenarios (WeatherGenerator).

Why attend?

In the webinar, the projects will present their vision and highlight their planned contributions to the broader DestinE framework. Participants will learn, through panel sessions and interactive moments, how to engage with these projects and how these initiatives will deliver new data, modelling and user-facing capabilities to inform climate policy, urban planning, and disaster preparedness.

Who should attend?

This webinar is open and free, upon mandatory registration. The event is especially addressed to anyone interested in the future of Digital Twins for climate, environmental, and urban applications. Among all, it may be particularly relevant for:

  • Researchers and scientists working on climate and Earth system modelling, urban meteorology, and air quality, who are interested in engaging with these three new Horizon Europe-funded projects advancing regional and local Digital Twin capabilities.
  • Technology developers and infrastructure providers, including those working in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and modelling platforms, who wish to learn about emerging technical approaches and opportunities for collaboration.
  • Contributors to the Destination Earth initiative, including members of the Core Service Platform, Data Lake, and other related components.
  • Policymakers and institutional stakeholders at European and national levels involved in climate adaptation, sustainability, and digital innovation.
  • Public authorities and urban planners working at regional and city level, especially those focused on climate resilience, environmental health, and risk preparedness, who can benefit from the early results and use-case/model frameworks presented.

Register on the TerraDT website for a deep dive on the convergence of modelling efforts in climate science!