Project partner Lietuvos sveikatos mokslų universitetas (LSMU) shares an article in their weekly University Newspaper 'Ave vita':

"𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘫𝘦𝘤𝘵 𝘈𝘜𝘙𝘖𝘙𝘈 𝘬𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘧𝘧 𝘪𝘯 𝘒𝘈𝘜𝘕𝘈𝘚 (𝘓𝘛) 𝘵𝘰 𝘦𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘸𝘦𝘳 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘦-𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘜 𝘉𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘭 𝘙𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘰𝘯."

Kaunas, Lithuania, 10th October 2024 – A European consortium of experts with vast experience in climate research, public health, and city planning has begun work to deliver transformative AI-driven solutions that help cities build climate resilience and improve public health outcomes.

AURORA's overarching mission is to closely monitor and model the interconnected impacts of climate change and health-related risk factors. This will enable the project to provide early warnings, forecast climate hazards and recommend tailored mitigation strategies, to support policymaking, and build public health resilience.

AURORA will tailor solutions for real world application by demonstrating them in five “Demo” cities: Riga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Tampere, and Pori, with three “Replicant” cities—Klaipeda, Joniskis, and Jurmala—joining the efforts to replicate successful models.

The kick-off event was kindly hosted by the project’s Scientific Manager – Lithuania University of Health Sciences, in their modern academic building dedicated to fostering philosophical research and intellectual engagement – Emanuelis Levinas Center in Kaunas.

The 26-member consortium is led by EXUS AI LABS, an innovative technology company specializing in AI solutions, along with partners from 11 different EU countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland, Sweden, Romania, Greece, Cyprus, Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland) that bring expertise from epidemiology, climate science, health sciences, public sector and social research. Its structure is based on excellence, complementarity, transnationality, and multi-disciplinarily, including all the value chain actors of the network across the EU.
The consortium members are:
Lithuania: Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Vilnius City Municipal Public Health Bureau, Community health centre in Klaipėda, Joniškis District Municipality, Vilnius City Municipality, TeraGlobus, Institute for Advanced Behavioral Research.
Latvia: Administration of Jūrmala local government, Riga City Council.
Estonia: Tallin City Council, Tallinn University of Technology.
Finland: Pori City Council, Prizztech Ltd., Finnish Meteorological Institute, Laurea University of Applied Sciences, Tampere City Council.
Sweden: KTH Royal Institute of Technology.
Romania: Sinopsis Innovation.
Greece: EXUS AI LABS, Enve-X Solutions, Institute of Entrepreneurship Development, Geosystems Hellas S.A.
Cyprus: UBITECH Limited.
Belgium: Ainigma Technologies.
Germany: RISA Sicherheitsanalysen GmbH.
Switzerland: Resilience Guard GmbH.

About AURORA:
The project is funded by the European Union (AURORA under the Grant Agreement n° 101157643). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the granting authority. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.


You can find the full article in Lithuanian language online here:
https://lnkd.in/eNvhbhvB