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
| Climateurope Festival 2020 - 'Climate Information at Your Service' 3rd webstival Climateurope 3rd webstival 'Climate Information at Your Service' will be held on 15 of October to initiate talks on Climate Services and the European Green Deal, tools and services that help build resilience, and a citizen science project with involvement from school students. Climateurope project team, Wednesday 7 October 2020 |
| You're invited to Clim2Power results showcase Project Clim2Power invites to the project results showcase session on 9th of November 2020 to be held online. Members of the project consortium will present achievements and explore opportunities for future collaboration. Please save the date. Clim2Power project, Monday 28 September 2020 |
ERA4CS Report on Future research needs in support of Climate Services The full report of Scoping Workshop “Future research needs in support of Climate Services” held on 9-10 June 2020 is now available and it will constitute the main contribution of ERA4CS to the 2nd Scoping Forum of JPI Climate. Thursday 17 September 2020 |
| ClimApp welcomes to the virtual conference The ClimApp online conference will be held on 24 September, 2020 to disseminate and introduce ClimApp as a tool to stakeholders, end users, climate service providers, health authorities, academia, et al., and get feedback for fine-tuning the ClimApp according to user’s needs.
ClimApp project, Thursday 17 September 2020 |
| IS-ENES3 1st Virtual Autumn school on climate data use for impact assessments In November and December 2020 the IS-ENES3 consortium will organize an Autumn School ‘Climate data use for impact assessments’ to help researchers make better use of available climate data and knowledge, in order to produce higher quality research outputs and services. IS-ENES3, Tuesday 15 September 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, |