In October 2025, the final I-CISK workshop took place in Venice, marking a key milestone for the Italian Living Lab and the project as a whole. The event gathered around 15 participants, including researchers, practitioners, and representatives from public agencies in the water sector, to review the project’s progress and outcomes.
The workshop showcased operational climate-service prototypes for water management—developed, tested, and refined in close collaboration with users. These tools demonstrated high usability, with simple workflows and clear visualisations; strong interoperability, through data connectors and APIs; and clear scalability, allowing replication from pilot basins to regional applications.
Discussions focused on practical integration pathways within Emilia-Romagna’s evolving water-policy framework, exploring how I-CISK outputs can support real-world decision-making. Experts and water managers evaluated the system’s potential to improve drought readiness, reservoir operations, and water withdrawals, linking immediate operational adjustments to medium-term planning and long-term institutional embedding.
By “closing the loop” between science, practice, and policy, the Venice workshop illustrated how collaborative innovation can transform climate information into actionable water resilience strategies—a fitting conclusion to the I-CISK journey in Italy.