As part of the Agricultural Risk Academy (ARA) programme on agricultural insurance and reinsurance, the Genillard&Co team (G&Co) organized an international symposium to discuss the risks of climate change for agriculture and its insurability. The first event of this kind took place on 6th & 7th of March in Freising Weihenstephan at the Life Science…
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We are pleased to announce that we are organizing a Symposium with the topic of “Agricultural Insurance in a changing climate with focus on Capacity building” at the Weihenstephan Campus in Freising, Bavaria on March 6th & 7th. The symposium focuses on CEE, CIS and SEE countries. Our partner Climate-KIC is partly funding the event.…
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We are pleased to inform you about the first publication within our H2020_Insurance project entitled “Simulation of Flood Hazard and Risk in the Danube Basin with the “Future Danube Model”. You can find the open access version here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cliser.2018.07.001 The article gives insight into the theoretical and practical approach of the end-user driven multi-hazard and…
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We are excited to announce that we have recently become part of an international project funded by the “German Federal Ministry of Education and Research”. Together with our Norwegian and German partners from the scientific and technology sector, we are working on the important issues of “Artificial Intelligence” and “Big Data”. The main goal is…
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As part of the international H2020_Insurance project consortium, we are working on innovative natural hazards modelling approaches for the insurance industry. Significant here is the implementation of climate modelling, because the goal is to enhance risk management against extreme weather events at all scales and to derive adaptation strategies for climate change. In one of…
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Our partner Oasis LMF is organizing its next workshop on model implementation and usage of the Oasis platform in September. Many fantastic presentations and tutorials by different stakeholders from the insurance industry and IT business will be held addressing current issues about cat modelling challenges, innovative modelling approaches to climate change and their opportunities to…
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The Company Day, which will be hosted by the Wageningen University (27 September 2018), provides an excellent occasion to stay up-to-date with recent technological developments and innovations in the field of agriculture and sustainability. Six highly relevant topics are presented and discussed: Big Data, Blockchain, Climate Smart and Circular Food Production, CRISPR-Cas, Photosynthesis and Precision…
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The XPrimm conference in Baku “Insurance in Azerbaijan: New perspectives” (20./21.6.2018) provided an excellent platform to discuss the opportunities and barriers of agricultural insurance in the region. With a holistic view on this subject, Christopher Genillard opened the agricultural conference section by pointing out the challenges agriculture is facing such as climate change, the existing…
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We are pleased to announce that our business area is expended to yet another country and from now on we will locally act as a reinsurance broker in Azerbaijan. Entering the exciting Azerbaijani insurance market is another important step in our strategic development and will enable us to cooperate even more closely with our cooperation…
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For the 10th time our annual experts workshop on the topic of best practice in risk management of natural hazards took place and led us to one of the most prestigious universities in Europe, the ETH in Zurich. In cooperation with Bruno Spicher (Allianz Suisse / SVV) and Thomas Hlatky (GRAWE / VVO) another day…
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