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
A short guide of ERA4CS projects The 2016 joint call on “Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development” has been funded by ERA4CS partners contributing either by cash funding or by in-kind resources plus co-funding on both topics from the European Union. This call resulted in the selection of 26 projects that will be active from the autumn 2017 to the spring 2021.
The present document is intended to provide an overview of the objectives, pilot users, main deliverables and input data of the 26 projects supported by ERA4CS. A summary of achievements of the 26 projects will be published in 2021, as part of the final report of ERA4CS. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 10 December 2018 |
| Free training on how to use the Climate Data Store platform and its content The Copernicus Climate Change Service contract on 'User Learning Services' aims to offer free training on how to use the Climate Data Store platform and its content. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 10 December 2018 |
| INNOVA presents the second Ezine on the Valencia Innovation Hub The second edition presents the climate and adaptation challenges the Valencia region is facing, its droughts and agricultural interests are the main themes. Wednesday 7 November 2018 |
| We have a new section in the ERA4CS webpage - Blogs Are you interested in writing or blogging your thoughts about the climate change? Send your posts and we will publish it on our webpage.
JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 29 October 2018 |
| Online survey on “Climate Services - User needs” is still open The survey has been developed under the framework of the ERA4CS research project ECLISEA, a project that aims to advance coastal and marine climate science and associated services through developing innovative research of sea surface dynamics.
Friday 26 October 2018 |
Recent documents
| 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, |
| The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects for printing purposes now is available. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, |