EDIPI – European Weather Extremes: DrIvers, Predictability and Impacts
EDIPI has officially concluded.
We would like to express our heartfelt thanks to all researchers, partners, supervisors, students, and collaborators who have been part of this journey. Your dedication and contributions have been the foundation of EDIPI’s success.
Over the past four years, EDIPI has brought together an international consortium of universities, research centres, and private sector actors to advance our holistic understanding of temperature, precipitation (including drought), and surface wind extremes across Europe.
A central aim of the project has been to train a new generation of Weather Extreme Experts—researchers who not only possess deep physical insight into high-impact weather phenomena, but also practical skills in predictability tools and an understanding of user-relevant needs in policy, climate services, and industry.
We hope that EDIPI’s research results will contribute meaningfully to scientific progress, public resilience, and climate adaptation efforts across Europe and beyond.
EDIPI was funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 956396.
Parntners and beneficiaries
EDIPI was an international consortium formed by 9 Beneficiaries, who will be hiring 14 Ph. D. students, and 11 Partner Organisations, who provided training for the students and hosted them for research secondments.
Beneficiaries
- Uppsala University (Sweden)
- Stockholm University (Sweden)
- CNRS (France)
- Tel Aviv University (Israel)
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)
- The Royal Meteorological Institute (Belgium)
- Barcelona Institute for Global Health (Spain)
- ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
- Imperial College London (U. K.)
Partner Organisations
- Paris-Saclay University (France)
- Paris Sciences et Lettres University (France)
- École Normale Supérieure de Lyon (France)
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
- University of California Davis (U. S. A.)
- AXA GIE (France)
- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (U. K./Italy)
- AON UK Ltd. (U. K.)
- Allianz SE Reinsurance (Germany)
What EDIPI did
EDIPI run 14 Ph. D. positions in 8 different countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U. K.), since 2021. The topics ranged from climate science to public health to applied mathematics, but always with an application to climate extremes in Europe.
The positions offered varied training opportunities in both technical and soft skills and international secondments to universities, research centres and private companies in Europe and beyond. Furthermore, all Ph. D.s came with generous funding, including a family allowance.
EDIPI doctoral projects
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