1. Competence and Assessment of Aeronautical Meteorologists Leena Neitiniemi-Upola Finnish Meteorological Institute FMI Member of WMO Task Team Et-Et

2. TOP competencies for AMF Analyse and monitor continuously the weather situation Forecast aeronautical weather phenomena and parameters Warn of hazardous phenomena Ensure the quality of meteorological information and services Communicate meteorological information to internal and external users 2013

3. What is defined and what is not: Top competencies define threshold competence not level of excellence Top competencies do not define qualifications for operational work.

4. Helping Hand how to prove competency Expert Team Education and Training Task Team Competence Assessment Toolkit

5. 2nd level competencies 2nd level competencies are a guidance. There are optional parts in it and regional or local variation are accepted.

6. What will be the future role of a meteorologist? Met. science expert - client expert? Production oriented forecaster will disapperar in 5-10 years because of automation. Client has in the future more versitile products than TAF’s that need interpretation, need of consultative meteorologist. More communication skills have to be developed in order to deliver the proper information to stakeholders

7. Assessment of competency – a new approach Competency based approach is based on showing -not only knowing. Task Team Competency Assessment Toolkit has developed a collection of methods for assessment and examples how to use them to assess competency.