The 4th European Climate Change Adaptation Conference – ECCA 2019, where the final conference of the project was embedded, took place at Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, Portugal, from the 28th to the 31st of May 2019 with over 1100 delegates from all over the world.

The BINGO project worked hard and long to have a good and interesting representation in this conference, to do justice to all the work done in the past 4 years within the scope of the project.

As such, the BINGO representation at ECCA 2019 consisted of:

• 44 BINGO partners, with invitation cards for the BINGO booth
• BINGO booth with prizes (250 hats and 250 t-shirts), games (BINGO game and Kahoot), videos and activities;
• Two very fun performances from a “Young farmer” and two “Politicians”, performed by some of our project partners;
• BINGO brochure and presentations mapping flyer in every ECCA 2019 gift bag;
• BINGO poster/oral presentations

There were a total of 28 presentations, among oral presentations, sessions and posters, covering all of the themes of the conference:

Theme 1: Data, methods and approaches in Climate Change Adaptation an

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Observed and modelled effects of the temporal variability of rainfall on evapotranspiration and runoff in semi-arid environments
• BINGO PROJECT: Selection of effective adaptation measures to weather extremes – Reducing flood risk in Wuppertal, Germany
• Hazard and risk assessment related to CSOs in bathing waters in a context of climate change
• Socio-economic potential impacts of climate change due to urban pluvial floods in Badalona (Spain). The BINGO project
• BINGO PROJECT: Impacts of Climate Change on Water Cycle’s Groundwater Component – Tagus basin case-study
• Decadal predictions for hydrological extremes assessment in Europe
• Assessment of climate change scenarios combined with anthropogenic influences at the Große Dhünn Reservoir, Germany
• BINGO PROJECT: Impacts of Climate Change on the Urban Water System – a case study from Bergen
• Effects of climate change in an agricultural area in the Tagus estuary (Portugal)
• Making decadal predictions and climate scenario simulations usable for the Wupper association’s water management challenges

E-POSTERS

• Calibration of a one-way coupled atmospheric-hydrologic model for the study of extreme events over Cyprus
• Sub-hourly precipitation over a Mediterranean catchment in a high-resolution climate model
• Will inundation hazard by storm surges change in the near-future? The upper Tagus estuary case
• Numerical assessment of the saltwater propagation in the upper Tagus estuary during droughts

Theme 2: Co-production of knowledge, solutions and services

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Developing Adaptation Strategies Using Science and Stakeholders
• BINGO – A Dynamic Framework for Creating Knowledge Co-production
• Stakeholders’ involvement in defining climate change adaptation strategies. The case study of Badalona in BINGO project

Theme 3: Communication, data sharing and decision support

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Guidelines designed for win-win collaboration between Researchers and Non-Researchers Stakeholders

SCIENCE PRACTICE SESSIONS

• Exploitation in CCA & DRR – clustering and discussion
  • BINGO Abstracts: BINGO project’s exploitable results and exploitation plan

POSTERS

• Canvas exercise applied to exploitation – methodology for collectively defining exploitable results

Theme 4: Institutions, governance, citizens and social justice

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Strengths and weaknesses in climate change adaptation governance – a comparison across six European regions
• Strategic groundwater management as an adaptation measure
• Advice in Collaborative Management in Climate Change Adaptation

POSTERS

• Evaluating climate change adaptation measures for a Mediterranean Watershed with stakeholder engagement

Theme 5: Global climate challenges

POSTERS

• Irrigation in Portugal and climate change

Theme 6: Climate risk management and resilience

ORAL PRESENTATIONS

• Towards sustainable drinking water abstraction: an assessment framework to support local adaptation planning (NOT PRESENTED)

In addition, BINGO had a presentation at the ECCA Tool-Shed:

• BINGO Online Portfolio of Adaptation Measures

PS: Stay tuned because all of our ECCA 2019 materials will be available on our website soon!

As we were reaching the final month of our project, the BINGO team has met once again in Lisbon, where the Kick-off meeting took place back in 2015!

This time, however, the conversations are very different: our results are here, our work is mostly done, the key topic now is CREATING A LASTING IMPACT.

Our research has created some new understanding of the impact of climate change within the case studies of our research sites. The knowledge that was produced here has been applied by the local stakeholders and will continue to create value beyond the project's lifetime.

But BINGO has created more than that, and this Final project meeting has put all of those other impacts on the table:

• BINGO has created a family within the project partners, the BINGOlians, but also with the Communities of Practice in each research site. These relationships have been built throughout 4 years and will continue to create impact in other activities and projects;
• BINGO has developed several methodologies which have been constructed by analysing what worked and what didn't in all of the research sites. These methodologies are now described through guidelines and are called our "Exploitable results". They address several issues, from resolution of decadal predictions to step by step guide on how to implement successful communities of practice, and can be implemented in a wide range of contexts;
• Each one of the partners from BINGO will leave the project much richer in terms of what they learned about other fields of study and other perspectives. This BINGO gathered climatologists, hydrologists, geologists, economists, policy experts, social sciences, risk analysis experts, agriculture, water supply, civil protection, and so much more - all of which have learned more about other regions and other perspectives of how the knowledge they generate can be applied.
• The Final Meeting was also the perfect opportunity to get to know the Research Site of Tagus and some of the ways the water cycle affects the sorrounding areas, through a field visit to the Sorraia Valley and to Coruche.

BINGO is, indeed, more than just the sum of all its parts.