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Every year river flooding affects millions of people in developing countries, due to large human exposure in the floodplains and the lack of adequate flood protection measures. Preparedness and monitoring is an effective way to reduce flood risk. State-of-the-art technologies relying on satellite remote sensing and numerical hydrological and weather predictions can detect and monitor severe flood events at global scale. This presentation describes the emerging role of the Global Flood Partnership (GFP, https://gfp. jrc. ec. europa. eu), a global network connecting scientists, users, private and public organizations active in global flood risk management. To date, a number of GFP member institutes regularly share results from their experimental products, developed to predict and monitor where and when flooding is taking place in near real-time. The goal of the GFP is to foster the dialogue between scientists and users …