Chiara Cagnazzo is the Sectoral Information System Manager of the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), where she addresses the challenge of transforming user needs in different sectors into usable climate derived information, to aid the making of informed decisions related to climate variations at different timescales. Before joining C3S, as a scientist her prior research at the National Research Center in Italy was dedicated to understanding the role of atmospheric variability and its representation in models on climate predictability, at timescales from sub-seasonal to decadal, as well as on long-term climate projections. 

What are your hopes/goals for REACHOUT? 

REACHOUT will support European cities in building resilience to climate change, by bridging the last mile in climate service delivery. Within this context, my hope is to gain enhanced understanding and elements on:  

• how to connect current offer of climate services to the tailored services relevant to the user categories in the various policy contexts involved in the project   
• how to make climate services offer more flexible, in this respect 

• the upscaling aspects of the use of such services and lessons learned