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
| 10 Years Joint programming – Achievements and the Way Forward JPI Urban Europe and the Austrian Research Promotion Agency – FFG organised an evening event to celebrate the 10 Years of JPIs on 19th September in Vienna, which was followed by a conference on 20th September hosted under The Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Friday 5 October 2018 |
| Climate adaptation for cities and regions The "European Week of Cities and Regions 2018” takes place in Brussels on 9th - 10th October. The side event Climate Adaptation for cities and regions will be held on 9th-10th of October. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 18 September 2018 |
| ERA4CS Summer School, Day 5 The last day of the Summer school started with a practical workshop on climate services blogging, followed by climate services ethical and institutional aspects and co-production efforts in multiagency, multi-stakeholder programmes. The next lectures were about the energy and tourism knowledge in a changing climate and sustainable mitigation actions in Georgia. In closing, the round table together with end-users was organised. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Sunday 16 September 2018 |
| ERA4CS Summer School, Day 4 The Day 4 was designed from global climate modelling,the importance of oceans and sea ice, Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service products to the cultural and arheological heritage and how to protect them from climate change and archaeological looting, excavation. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Friday 14 September 2018 |
| ERA4CS Summer School, Day 3 Themes throughout the third day of the Summer school were drought in Europe, role of climate change on vedetation productivity and on fire risks, European research and innovation Roadmap for climate services and climate services as supporting planning and decision-making. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Thursday 13 September 2018 |
Recent documents
ERA4CS Newsletter seventh issue - December 2017 Seventh edition of the ERA4CS Newsletter with information about ERA4CS General Assembly meeting, a networking event with the Horizon 2020 and ERA4CS projects, ERA4CS reports and the Executive Summary of the report on synergy and mismatch analysis, main domains of the 26 ERA4CS funded projects and other interesting activities. 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, |
| The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects for printing purposes now is available. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |