ERA-NET Cofund for Climate Services
The ERA-NET Consortium “European Research Area for Climate Services”, so-called ERA4CS, has been designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services in Europe, by supporting research for developing better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate information to cope with current and future climate variability.
What are Climate Services?
We consider Climate Services as the user-driven development, translation and transfer of climate knowledge to researchers and decision¬makers in policy and business. This includes knowledge for understanding the climate, climate change and its impacts, as well as guidance in the use of climate knowledge.
ERA4CS is an initiative of
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (Grant 690462)
Recent news
| WIWAA 2020 awards go to ClimApp The ERA4CS project ClimApp has been awarded on 15th of December, 2020 by The WMO International Weather Apps Awards (WIWAA 2020) in two categories:
Category 1 - Awards for innovation and promotion of the use of weather and climate information for development and Honorable mention in Sub-category 2 - Award for Originality and Innovation
ClimApp project, Wednesday 16 December 2020 |
| CLIM2POWER project 2020 newsletter The Clim2Power consortium showcased project results through an Open Event on 9 of November. The final consortium meeting was held on 7 of December 2020 to close the work of the past three years. These and other news you can read in the Clim2Power newsletter. CLIM2POWER project, Tuesday 15 December 2020 |
| 2nd JPI Climate Scoping Forum Symposium The second JPI Climate Scoping Forum "Providing Knowledge for a climate neutral and resilient Europe" was organised as a virtual conference on 9-10 of December 2020. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Friday 11 December 2020 |
| CLIMALERT tools launched in 2020 The CLIMALERT Mobile App was presented to the general public in Portugal on September 25th 2020, at the Tibães Monastery, within the scope of the Greenfest, the largest Portuguese sustainability festival.
CLIMALERT project, Friday 11 December 2020 |
| ERA4SC projects Event The ERA4CS projects Event took place on 3rd December following up on a H2020 climate services final event. ERA4CS project Coordination team, Friday 4 December 2020 |
Recent documents
JPI Climate E-magazine We are happy to announce that the JPI Climate e-magazine is available now. This E-magazine is the result of the work developed by the JPI Climate project "Strengthening INternational Cooperation on climatE change REsearch" (SINCERE), in close collaboration with the coordinators from the research projects, and has the intention to increase the societal impact of these projects, by disseminating their results and achievements in ways that are understandable to lay audiences. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS Report on the retrospective evaluation of the call procedures The aim of this report (developed within WP 4, Task 4.2) is to provide an overview of the ERA4CS launched Joint Call, its scope and objectives, call topics, procedures and the results of the call. The analysis and evaluation of the call procedures are described and suggestions how to improve future calls developing better tools, methods and standards on how to launch and communicate the calls are compiled in the report. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| Report on mapping of ERA4CS member states’ national activities for climate services The aim of the report is to extend the mapping of climate services in all participating countries by collecting and labeling the various projects, programmes and agendas developed within each RFO and each RPO of the ERA4CS consortium to support identifying current strength and weaknesses of the European CS landscape and increase visibility of providers and their portfolios for
both users and providers. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS Additional Activities: Mapping of European and International Activities The process for this report was to first find relevant documents that describe strategies and plans of climate service actions from the ERA4CS partner network. In the next steps these documents or web resources were analysed for references to climate services or JPI Climate and how the initiative is being resourced. The editors finally drafted short summaries of this analysis into the texts of this report. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS leaflet JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |