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
| The third call of “ERA4CS exchange action for officers” is open The ERA4CS project launches the sthird call on exchange action for officers to conduct a pilot experiment for the institutional alignment in the area of Climate Services. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Thursday 5 December 2019 |
| ERA4CS 5th General Assembly ERA4CS held its 5th General Assembly in Dublin on 28-29 November. The outcomes of the mid-term meeting of ERA4CS funded projects were analysed and new activities supported.
JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Thursday 5 December 2019 |
| Webinar training session on Ecological Niche Modelling On November 8th, CoCliME project participants gathered online for an internal webinar training session on Ecological Niche Modelling (a.k.a. habitat suitability modelling). A goal of CoCliME is to produce climate services related to harmful algal blooms by using existing data and knowledge about the blooms to predict their occurrences and bloom intensity in a changing climate. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Wednesday 4 December 2019 |
| Workshop on quantitative polymerase chain reaction From 21st - 25th October 2019, a training workshop organised by CoCliME project focused on an important climate service tool, QPCR (quantitative polymerase chain reaction) was held at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven, Germany. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Wednesday 4 December 2019 |
JPI Climate E-magazine We are happy to announce that the JPI Climate e-magazine is available now. Please help us to promote greater complementarity and integration of JPI Climate research activities with similar activities of international partners to address societal challenges more effectively and efficiently and facilitate the exchange of information and mutual learning with similar research initiatives in other regions of the world. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 3 December 2019 |
Recent documents
| JPI Climate E-magazine We are happy to announce that the JPI Climate e-magazine is available now. Please help us to promote greater complementarity and integration of JPI Climate research activities with similar activities of international partners to address societal challenges more effectively and efficiently and facilitate the exchange of information and mutual learning with similar research initiatives in other regions of the world. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |
| ERA4CS projects e-brochure E-brochure of ERA4CS and Horizon 2020 projects was developed for the Networking event on 30 of November, 2017. Based on this outreach material the updated e-brochure of ERA4CS projects can be found by following this link: http://bit.ly/ERA4CSProjectBrochure |
| 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, |