Working Group 3

Chair: Dr. Lorenzo Cecchi MD

Impact assessment, user links and applications:

WP3 will deal with applications of existing systems, their correspondence to state-of-the-art knowledge (WP1 and WP2) and challenges of the impact assessment tasks, as well as to the needs and requirements of the user community, which will be identified and involved in the dialogue. A special attention will be paid to dissemination of pollen-related information to various users – in accordance with their needs and existing or planned functionalities of the pollen information services.

Specific objectives:

• to evaluate the main characteristics of pollen distribution in Europe – historical records, spring pollen seasons, current trends–and their impact on society;
• to strengthen the dialogue with end users, identify their requirements, needs and quality criteria for pollen information systems;
• to identify target users groups, their specific needs and to evaluate the existing or developing systems against these criteria