Outreach & Communication Award 2025
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2025 EMS Outreach and Communication Award:
The magazine “Segnali dal clima in Friuli Venezia Giulia”
Through compelling storytelling enriched with explanations, glossaries, and real-world examples, the magazine “Segnali dal clima in Friuli Venezia Giulia” guides non-experts along a clear narrative path — framing complex issues in a constructive way that informs, empowers, and helps ease anxiety.
The award will be presented during the Media and Communication Session of the EMS Annual Meeting in Ljubljana on Wednesday, 10 September 2025
About the magazine “Signals from the climate in FVG”
“Segnali dal clima in FVG” is an informative publication designed for the general public offering a regional and local perspective on climate change in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (north-eastern Italy). The magazine explores this complex theme from three perspectives: CHANGES, IMPACTS, ACTIONS.
The magazine is the result of the collective commitment to promote climate literacy by the Clima FVG Working Group, that was established by the Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia in 2022 and that brings together the region’s leading scientific and research institutions.
To bring the public closer to a topic that is still often perceived as distant, “Segnali dal clima in FVG” presents different aspects of climate change starting from the account of events and situations that have recently affected Friuli Venezia Giulia region, while also highlighting how the local dimension is connected to the global one.
The basic idea is to draw on the knowledge that the research institutions belonging to the Clima FVG WG constantly elaborate, translating it into accessible and engaging content for the general public. “Segnali dal clima in FVG” takes the form of a popular science magazine, published annually. The articles are collected on a voluntary basis from experts within the Clima FVG WG’s institutions. Each year different climate-related themes are explored and highlighted, providing locally relevant knowledge about weather and climate, cryosphere, freshwater, sea, lagoon, ecosystems, agriculture, forests, wildfires, buildings, urban areas, social and psychological issues, animal and human health etc.
The story telling of events and phenomena is accompanied by explanations, mini-glossaries, examples. The magazine’s structure and reading path helps non-expert readers to understand how changes, impacts and actions are connected, showing how climate changes affect the environment and human activities and what mitigation and adaptation actions we can put in place, both at a collective and at an individual level. This should help ease and manage the possible anxiety-inducing effect of part of the information by framing the messages into a constructive perspective.
Editorial coordination is managed by ARPA FVG. All the editorial, graphic design and production process is done “in-house” without additional funding.
- The magazine (in Italian) is published and freely available online
- Information about the Clima FVG Working Group
Members of the Clima FVG Working Group:
- Federica Flapp e Fulvio Stel (coordinator) – Regional Environmental Protection Agency of Friuli Venezia Giulia (ARPA FVG)
- Silvia Stefanelli – Autonomous Region Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Giovanni Bacaro – University of Trieste
- Renato R. Colucci – Institute of Polar Sciences, the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISP),
- Filippo Giorgi – Emeritus Scientist at International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
- Alessandro Peressotti – University of Udine
- Fabio Raicich – Institute of Marine Sciences, the Italian National Research Council (CNR-ISMAR)
- Cosimo Solidoro – National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS)
About the EMS Outreach & Communication Award
The EMS Outreach & Communication Award was launched in 2009. It is presented to projects that explore new ways to communicate the science of meteorology, climatology and related fields and its consequences to the general public. For more details and all the outstanding earlier recipients visit the Outreach & Communication Award website.
About the EMS Annual Meeting
The Annual Meetings of the EMS aim at fostering exchange and cross-fertilization of ideas in the meteorological, climatological and related communities, focusing particularly on strategic issues relevant to the future of meteorology in Europe. The session programme offers many opportunities for collaboration across the entire weather and climate enterprise (public, private, academic, users, and NGOs) to benefit societies in Europe and worldwide.
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