Data against climate change

More cooperating businesses, higher funding, a new partner within the university: BigData@Geo is going into the second round and wants to use climate data to create concrete recommendations for action for businesses with a connection to nature. The Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg (JMU) has been working with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) from the region in the BigData@Geo project since 2017. Whether wineries, forestry operations or fruit and vegetable growers, the participating businesses have one thing in common: they are particularly threatened by the effects of climate change. To overcome these challenges, they also rely on solutions developed in the interdisciplinary project by researchers from geography and computer science. BigData@Geo 2.0 is led by Professors Andreas Hotho (Chair of Computer Science X) and Heiko Paeth (Chair of Climatology). Professor Stefan Dech from the Chair of Remote Sensing is a new member. The project is funded with almost three million euros from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).