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
Recent news
| New Coordinator for ERA4CS On 1 July 2017, Philippe Bougeault has taken over the coordination for ERA4CS from Patrick Monfray, who has held this position for the first two years of operations. JPI Climate Secretariat, Tuesday 4 July 2017 |
| JPI Climate welcomed ECCA 2017 visitors at the conference booth ECCA 2017 - the 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference. JPI Climate welcomed visitors at the conference booth. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Sunday 25 June 2017 |
| 13th of GB meeting of JPI Climate in Cambridge, day 2 13th of GB meeting of JPI Climate in Cambridge, 24 of May Wednesday 21 June 2017 |
| 13th of GB meeting of JPI Climate in Cambridge, day 1 The 13th Governing Board meeting of JPI Climate took place on 23-24 of May in Cambridge. JPI Climate Secretariat, Wednesday 21 June 2017 |
| A webinar for researchers and practitioners working in support of Disaster Risk Reduction Developing a vision for a common implementation strategy for research supporting climate services: A webinar for researchers and practitioners working in support of Disaster Risk Reduction JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Thursday 1 June 2017 |
Recent documents
Webinar report - ERA4CS Task 7.4 - 31 March 2017 Webinar report for researchers and practitionars working on the social, behavioural and communications aspects of climate services. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS leaflet JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| Programme Side event AF2016 At the occasion of the start of a large 72k M€ project dedicated to user-oriented climate services ERA4CS, JPI Climate, an intergovernmental initiative of major European research funding bodies cordially invites you to a workshop on the potential contribution of climate science to risk management strategies in the private sector. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS Joint Call text The overall objective of this call is to enhance user adoption of and satisfaction with Climate Services (incl. adaptation services). Improving the quality of Climate Services is also within the scope of this call. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| Pre-announcement of ERA4CS call This announcement is preliminary. Specific details might change JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |