Start: 28 October 2025
End: 30 October 2025
09:00 - 17:00 Western European Summer Time zone (WEST, UTC+1).
Hybrid (link to be shared only with confirmed participants)
Agenda
Day 1 – 28 October 2025
Time | Agenda Item | Responsible |
9:00 - 9:45 | Opening and introduction
| Director General, Maroc Meteo A. Corina, VP SERCOM J. Stander J. Ijampy |
09:45 – 10:30 | Opening and introduction (continued) Overview of SERCOM, linkage – priorities, realities, key issues, challenges & looking ahead followed by discussion
| J. Stander |
10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 11:30 | SC-AGR objectives, expected outputs, composition and structure
| J. Ijampy |
11:30 – 12:30 | Expert Teams (ETs) updates – TORs, priorities, workplans and challenges Expert Team on GAMP Expert Team on Drought Expert Team on Agromet Standards and Regulations Task Team on Indigenous and Local Agroclimatic Knowledge Overview of other outputs
| N. Chattopadhyay A. Susnik D. Alexandru R. Stone / S. Grey S. Grey |
12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 - 15:30 | Work planning for SC-AGR Outputs
| All |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Work planning for SC-AGR Outputs
| All |
Day 2 – 29 October 2025
Time | Agenda Item | Responsible |
09:00 - 10:00 | Report back and discussion on Day 1 working sessions
| All |
10:00 – 10:30 | Market Place 1 – talks from experts on their work, recent agrometeorological events, latest developments in the field & strategic opportunities
| TBA (5 minutes per person) |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 - 12:00 | Interactions with other WMO bodies (status & opportunities) SC-HYD, INFCOM (including RRR issues), JWG-WEF Nexus approach to climate services Review of Technical Regulations Gender Issues
| R. Stefanski R. Stefanski A. Sitta |
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch Break | |
13:30 - 14:30 | Partnership and projects
| R. Stefanski R. Stefanski / S. Grey H. Kanamaru E. Isaev / S. Grey All |
14:30 - 15:30 | Update on regional activities on agrometeorology or regional Agromet strategy RA I – Africa, RA-II – Asia, RA-V – Pacific, RA III – South America, RA-IV – North America, Central America and the Caribbean RA-VI – Europe (including discussion on the agromet centre) Discussion
| Z. Shilenje E. Mateescu / D. Alexandru All |
15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | |
16:00 - 17:00 | Regional needs and priorities – working session on priorities, needs, gaps, opportunities and linkages with ongoing projects and programmes
| All (Split into small groups according to RAs – RA I, RA III & IV, RA VI, RA II & V) |
Day 3 – 30 October 2025
Time | Agenda Item | Responsible |
09:00 – 10:00 | Regional needs and priorities (continued) – Report back and discussion
| All |
10:00 – 10:30 | Market Place 2 – talks from experts on their work, recent agrometeorological events, latest developments in the field & strategic opportunities
| TBA (5 minutes per person) |
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
11:00 – 12:00 | Capacity building strategy Recent activities on capacity development opportunities, strategy and plans Agromet Community of Practice Discussion
| S. Grey |
12:00 – 12:30 | Secretariat Support for the SC-AGR
| R. Stefanski / J. Stander |
12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch Break | |
14:00 – 16:30 | Wrap up (including working Coffee/Tea break) Consolidate TORs, conclusions, and recommendations Agreement on key actions - Final presentation of key actions and outcomes from the meeting Consolidate inputs & issues for SERCOM MG
| All J. Ijampy |
16:30 – 17:00 | Closing Remarks
| TBA |
Documents
- Meeting report to be shared here
- Presentations to be added here
