The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) will launch from the end of 2025 a series of three short Massive Open Online Courses (mini-MOOCs). The mini-MOOCs aim to enhance the accessibility, awareness, and utilization of climate data provided by C3S, ultimately to help address global climate challenges.

Target audience

The target audience of the mini-MOOCs includes a relatively broad spectrum of learners, worldwide, with the overarching learning objective to make sense of the climate data types provided by C3S (observations, reanalysis, seasonal predictions, projections, derived indicators). Targeted learners could be classified as “intermediaries”, who may have some technical skills, but not in the domain of climate data. The MOOCs address those who wish/need to better understand what climate data is, what it can/cannot be used for, and who uses it.

Example learner profiles include:

• Practitioners from organisations who need to implement EU directives. E.g. water basin authority.
• Employees of private companies responsible for reporting on climate risk.
• Met service or environmental agency staff developing national climate adaptation plans, or other public sector technical employees supporting policy-makers.
• Academics, university students, or engineers in research centers who work in non-climate domains and need/desire to develop skills in processing climate data.
• Data journalists responsible for collecting, analysing and presenting climate data and information.

Mini-MOOC titles and learning objectives

MOOC 1: Demystifying climate data

Learning objectives to be published shortly.

MOOC 2: Climate data applications

Learning objectives to be published shortly.

MOOC 3: Turning climate data into actionable knowledge

Learning objectives to be published shortly.

Timeline

The three mini-MOOCs will be developed and launched over the period from early 2025 to mid 2027. Two live runs of each mini-MOOC are foreseen.