The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has issued a new invitation to tender for three new Machine-Learning Demonstrators expanding the current use of DestinE capabilities to new domains. The call is open until August 5th, 2025 at 15:00 CET.
ECMWF has already selected a first package of machine learning demonstrators in a previous invitation to tender. This new ITT aims specifically at proposals for three new ML Demonstrators in the following domains:
- Lot 1: Supporting water resilience in Europe
Bids should support the European Water Resilience Strategy, engaging with a selected, clearly defined stakeholder group and supporting their freshwater management tasks. The solution should allow the investigation and testing of “what-if” scenarios.
- Lot 2: Demonstrating DestinE in the domain of food security
Bids should support the European “Farm to Fork” strategy, an element of the EU Green Deal, engaging with a selected, clearly defined stakeholder group and supporting their freshwater management tasks linked to agricultural market information systems, food security mechanisms, or resilience planning. The solution should allow the investigation and testing of “what-if” scenarios.
- Lot 3: Combining heterogeneous climate projections for climate adaptation
Bids should support the EU climate adaptation decision making by contributing to combine DestinE’s Climate Change Adaptation Digital Twin (Climate DT) high resolution climate projections, with the information from climate simulations ensembles at lower resolution currently used by decision makers, climate services and consultancies. The work will develop an ML-based demonstrator combining optimally a flexible selection of climate projections producing uncertainty estimates.
ECMWF intends to award a single contract under each of these Lots. Tenderers shall deliver a functional demonstrator that shall be maintained, tested, and continuously improved until the end of the contract. The systems should integrate to the extent possible with DestinE system components.
The proposals should develop compelling examples of solutions serving users with information obtained with ML approaches based on DestinE digital twins’ data and access mechanisms. Funded proposals should achieve a step-change in terms of user benefit in the sector addressed.
DestinE use cases, the new Pilot Services and the Machine-Learning Demonstrators are cornerstones of DestinE’s co-design and co-development strategy, that seeks to engage with the end users from the earlies stages of the services to ensure the user needs are met.
Read the full call in ECMWF Destination Earth Invitations to Tender page.
Destination Earth is a European Union funded initiative launched in 2022, with the aim to build a digital replica of the Earth system by 2030. The initiative is being jointly implemented by three entrusted entities: the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) responsible for the creation of the first two ‘digital twins’ and the ‘Digital Twin Engine’, the European Space Agency (ESA) responsible for building the ‘Core Service Platform’, and the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), responsible for the creation of the ‘Data Lake’.
We acknowledge the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking for awarding this project strategic access to the EuroHPC supercomputers LUMI, hosted by CSC (Finland) and the LUMI consortium, Marenostrum5, hosted by BSC (Spain) Leonardo, hosted by Cineca (Italy) and MeluXina, hosted by LuxProvide (Luxembourg) through a EuroHPC Special Access call.
More information about Destination Earth is on the Destination Earth website and the EU Commission website.
For more information about ECMWF’s role visit ecmwf.int/DestinE
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