1. iCoast integrated Coastal Alert System Kick off meeting
ECHO/SUB/2013/661009
Kick off meeting
Brussels 22 January 2014
Vicente Gracia (CIIRC)

2. iCoast - Partnership
Barcelona
Cork
Torino
CIIRC, Centre Internacional d’Investigació dels Recursos Costaners, Spain. (Coordinator)
SIMO, Soluciones de Ingeniería Marítima Operacional, Spain.
SMC, Servei Meteorològic de Catalunya, Spain.
CECAT, INT, Centre d’Emergències de Catalunya, Spain.
IGC, Institut Geològic de Catalunya, Spain.
ITHACA, Information Technology for Humanitarian Assistance, Cooperation and Action, Italy.
CMRC, Coastal and Marine Research Centre, University College Cork, Ireland.

3. iCoast - Project motivation
Coastal occupation
The Catalan coast case
False perception of security by society
Wave storm Dec-2008
Wave stormNov-2001

4. iCoast - Project overview
The main objective is
to develop a tool, iCoast, to address coastal risks caused by extreme waves and high sea water levels
To be applied to
European urban beaches
European coastal defences and infrastructures
iCoast will be used as a
coastal early warning system to forecast storm events.
tool to help in the decision making process of the interventions for managers

5. iCoast - Project description
- TASK C -
COASTAL HAZARD & RISK MAPING
To obtain the coastal hazard landscape of the NW Mediterranean taking as example the Catalan coast.
To determine a set of reference beaches to be forecasted by the system iCoast.
- TASK D -
INTERVENTION GUIDELINES
To undertake a review of best practices of policies associated with disaster prevention.
To define Quick Defense or Accommodation Measures to be taken to diminish or act against a specific forecasted storm.
- TASK E -
DATA ASSIMILATION & MODELING
To setup models to be used to construct main core of the coastal early warning system, iCoast.
To perform simulations of selected extreme events already defined in task C to calibrate iCoast. C D E

6. iCoast - Project description
- TASK F -
ARCHITECTURE & TESTING
The construction of the prototype iCoast, links between models, the functioning in an operational mode.
Different tests of the whole system will be performed for previous well defined episodes
- TASK G -
EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION
To define the emergency communication protocols to be established within iCoast at a regional, national and international level.
iCoast
A coastal early warning system to forecast storm events.
A tool to help in the decision making process of the interventions for managers
iCoast F G

7. iCoast - Project description
- TASK A -
MANAGEMENT & REPORTING TO THE COMISSION
The coordination and control of the project development and quality, checking the achievement of milestones, the production of deliverables and the budget evolution.
- TASK B -
PUBLICITY
To disseminated results by creating a website, local workshops, publications and press.

8. iCoast - Deliverables & deadlines (except Publicity)
1st Progress Report (September 2014), 2nd Progress Report (May 2015), Final report (December 2015)
Task
Deliverable
Deadline C
Inventory of disasters
July 2014
Synthetic charts of the wave and mean water level climate of the reported disasters
Data base and Map of the reported disasters, proposal of implementation within a GIS
Methodology and results for beach target selection D
Guidelines. Report of lessons learned from similar coasts
May 2015
Best practices. Report of quick defence /adaptation measures. Protocols of intervention
Report with the definition of the quick defence /adaptation measures
Nov. 2015 E
Meteorological model report
Hydrodynamic model report
Nov. 2014
Morphodynamic model report
Jan. 2015
Coastal State Indicator model report
March 2015 F
Report on system strategy
Report on the analysis of the test implementation
iCoast manual G
Report with the communication protocols at the regional scale
Report with the communication protocols at the international scale

9. iCoast - Dates & places Event Type Date Place Kick-off Meeting
Partnership meetings
17/12/2013
Barcelona
Progress Meetings
July 2014
Torino
March 2015
Cork
Final Project Meeting
November 2015
Workshop -Starting Project
Public - Stakeholders
February 2014
Workshop -Project Results
November 2015*
International Conference on Coastal Engineering (ICCE 2014)
Conference
June 2014
Seoul
European Geoscience Union (EGU)
April 2015
Vienna
* To be confirmed

10. iCoast - Budget & duration
Start date : 01/12/2013
End date : 30/11/2015
Duration : 24 months
Total
Eligible Cost EC
Co-Financing
Partner Contribution
CIIRC
202,902 €
152,176 €
50,725 €
SIMO
119,519 €
89,639 €
29,879 €
SMC
68,079 €
51,059 €
17,019 €
CECAT
13,321 €
9,991 €
3,330 €
IGC
30,413 €
22,809 €
7,603 €
ITHACA
100,078 €
75,059 €
25,019 €
CMRC
100,000 €
75,000 €
25,000 €
634,310 €
475,733 €
158,577 €

11. iCoast - Project follow-up
Actions
The implementation of iCoast as a forecast tool by the relevant authorities. To do that it will be necessary to maintain also operational the existing oceanographic and meteorological networks to ensure the data assimilation process within iCoast.
To update the coastal disaster database.
The maintain/improve the numerical modelling suite of iCoast
Who and How
A permanent commission with representatives from the other partners under the framework of CIIRC also inviting any administration level and interested stakeholders will be in charge of maintain “active “ the project and continue in the process of predicting the risk.
The Comitee will provide technical advice to ensure the implementation of iCoast in any interested UE region.
Project partners will monitor improvements in their respective areas.