The Adaptation AGORA project supports the EU Mission on Adaptation to Climate Change by promoting innovative methods, best practices, and participatory education to strengthen regional and community action. A central element of the project is the Agora Community Hub, a collaborative online platform that hosts the Adaptation AGORA Digital Academy – a structured educational resource designed to boost climate literacy and engagement.

The Digital Academy offers a series of interactive modules that help citizens and stakeholders access, understand, and use open-source climate data and tools to respond to adaptation challenges and combat misinformation. It integrates a wide range of international and national web-based climate data, risk and adaptation tools and platforms with tailored learning materials and guidelines to support users across different levels of climate knowledge.

The Academy is built around nine thematic modules that guide users through the fundamentals and complexities of climate adaptation:

• What is Climate? – Understanding climate basics and variability.
• How Can Climate Models Benefit You? – Exploring model types, uses, and limitations.
• How to Use and Visualize Climate Data? – Learning to navigate and exploit data sources, tools and platforms.
• Climate Threats and Hazards – Identifying physical impacts and environmental risks.
• Climate Risks – Linking hazards with vulnerability and exposure.
• Adaptation & Governance – Exploring policy, planning, and institutional responses.
• Investigate Options and Take Action! – Supporting decision-making for local adaptation.
• Food and Climate Change – Understanding climate impacts on food systems.
• New Frontiers – Introducing emerging tools and innovation in climate adaptation.

Each module is tailored to varying levels of expertise – base, intermediate and advanced – ensuring inclusive learning. Users are guided not only on how to access data, but how to critically assess, interpret, and apply it to real-world problems. The Digital Academy is co-developed through ongoing engagement at key events like ECCA 2023, the SISC Conference 2023, and targeted stakeholder and student workshops. These co-creation processes ensure the Academy reflects the needs of practitioners, researchers, educators, and the public. This dynamic learning environment enhances scientific inquiry, promotes critical thinking, and invites data providers, educators, and policymakers to collaborate. Ultimately, the Academy fosters trust, deepens understanding, and empowers communities across Europe to take informed action toward climate resilience.

How to cite: Adinolfi, M., Hoy, A., Milelli, M., Biondi, R., Loglisci, N., Mercogliano, P., Reder, A., Dansero, D., Brunley, E., Scolobig, A., and Buccolini, B.: Empowering climate adaptation through modular learning: The Adaptation AGORA digital academy, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7–12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-353, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-353, 2025.

Printed meteorological glossaries have been published in many European countries since the first edition of the British Meteorological Glossary in 1916. Although in recent decades most information has been transferred online, there are still only a few electronic meteorological glossaries. One of these is the Czech glossary, which was originally published in paper form in 1993; since 2018, its fully electronic version has been operating and continues to be maintained, updated and supplemented. The aim of the paper is to present experiences with this process and provide an overview of the possibilities that an electronic glossary provides compared to the printed version. Inspiration can also be drawn from meteorological glossaries of other countries. There are many advantages of electronic form of the glossary, simple search including full-term search capability as an example on the user side, possibility of classification and grouping of the terms and their allocation to the experts as well as simple and fast introducing of new terms by any (including new) authors on the maintanance side.

One of the possibilities offered by the conversion of printed glossaries into electronic documents is the linking of different national terminology databases. The creation of a multilingual meteorological glossary has already been attempted by our predecessors, but since the 1930s the development has been limited to bilingual glossaries. Linking the meteorological terminologies of different European countries into one system remains a challenge. This paper therefore also includes a discussion of the merits of creating a possible European dictionary, for which we are looking for collaborators across European countries.

How to cite: Müller, M.: Let's make it electronic! Lessons learned from the conversion of the Czech meteorological glossary and an initiative towards a European multilingual meteorological dictionary, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7–12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-713, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-713, 2025.

In the last ten years, the Slovenian Environment Agency, in cooperation with the Association of Slovenian Geographers and Ministries, has implemented an action: placing high-water marks on flooded areas near rivers, lakes, and the sea. The action aims to educate and inform the inhabitants about the natural phenomenon of high waters, improve their knowledge of the regular impoundments of karstic poljes, flooded areas near rivers, lakes, and sea, and raise awareness that, more or less frequently, the water needs its natural extended space —floodplains. The placement of high-water marks on flooded sites links various activities of public institutions, organizations, and local communities to manage water resources and improve flood safety responsibly. Besides the official institutions, local stakeholders are also included in the action because their role is crucial in the bottom-up approach.  The local population, schools, local government, and real estate owners are the first whose involvement in the action is needed for their knowledge of the water level situation during floods in the areas. Physical markings as a lasting reminder in space are a part of the process of raising awareness and educating about high waters. Visible and uniformed high-water marks on the field raise awareness of the locals and visitors. Informing, educating, and raising public awareness about water, are of great importance for the preparation of long-term and sustainable River basin management plans, and for Spatial plans on a regional level. Until now more than 70. high water marks were placed in Slovenia. All installed marks are also displayed online. The activity is well-recognized in Slovenia, and abroad. Uniformed marks were already placed in the partnership with countries in the Sava River Basin, on the Mura River in cooperation with Austria, and well accepted in the working groups of the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR), as well as in the European Union Strategy for the Adriatic-Ionian Regional Strategy (EUSAIR).

How to cite: Ulaga, F. and Frantar, P.: Educating and raising public awareness about floods with uniformed high-water marks, EMS Annual Meeting 2025, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 7–12 Sep 2025, EMS2025-48, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2025-48, 2025.