CONFESS work has progressed well. It has accomplished major developments with promising prospects for being implemented in next generation of C3S, and partners are fully engaged with the evaluation of results.  However, due to a variety of factors we have experienced some delay, which due to the interconnected nature of the CONFESS workflow. Because a thorough evaluation is critical for the transition of research developments into operational services, we have added 5 months to extend the duration of CONFESS.

This  extra time means we have the opportunity to ensure wider uptake of CONFESS outputs and results. For example we are working to deliver additional runs to ensure project outputs are relevant for operational implementation. This contributes to us achieving the objective of CONFESS to improve next generation of C3S system.

We are also working to facilitate the usability of CONFESS developments to other Horizon Europe projects such as ASPECT and CERISE, and also potentially for other programmes.