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
Results of the First JPI Climate Scoping Forum Process The produced report focuses on the results of the first JPI Climate Scoping Forum as a key element of the SRIA Strategic Mechanism and puts forward a set of recommendations to the development and update of JPI Climate Implementation Plan based on a range of internal and external inputs, analyses and new information.
JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 23 July 2018 |
| ERA4CS Summer School Climate Services from the users' perspective ERA4CS Summer School Climate Services from the users' perspective will be held from 10-14 of September 2018 in Pisa, Italy and focus on multidisplinary, up to date view of the lasted observations, models, projections, adaptation strategies, and services to mitigate climate change impacts with research and education. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Thursday 28 June 2018 |
| Short summary of the JPI Climate Side event at AF2018 Summary of the JPI Climate workshop "Exploring ways of International Cooperation in Climate Services FOR AFRICA" held on Monday 18 of June with more than 120 participants at the Adaptation Futures 2018 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa is available. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 19 June 2018 |
| JPI Climate booth 47 at the Adaptation Futures 2018 EXPO You are most welcome to vsit our booth 47 at the Adaptation Futures 2018 EXPO to MEET and GREET, MATCH and PROCEED Tuesday 19 June 2018 |
| Local newspaper Cape Times highlighted the JPI Climate workshop Local newspaper Cape Times has highlighted the JPI Climate organised workshop on 18 of June in Cape Town, South Africa in the article "1 000 scientists, delegates attend climate change summit in city". JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 19 June 2018 |
Recent documents
| 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, |
| The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects for printing purposes now is available. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS leaflet JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |