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
| FMI's Climate Bulletin Research Letters in Special Spring 2020 Issue with #ERA4CS focus The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) aims to promote visibility for ERA4CS projects (European Research Area for Climate Services) digitally in its Climate Bulletin Research Letters in Special Spring 2020 Issue with #ERA4CS focus to celebrate the Europe-wide ERA4CS projects and their results. Wednesday 1 July 2020 |
| SENSES webinar "Understanding climate change scenarios" Climate Change Scenario Services (SENSES) Webinar "Understanding climate change scenarios" will be held on 29 June 2020, 14-15:30 CET.to present the SENSES toolkit. senses project, Wednesday 24 June 2020 |
| TRANSLATE Climate Services Research Call Met Éireann launched its Research Call Programme. Its inaugural call for applications is in the area of climate services and is called TRANSLATE.The Call deadline: is Friday 10th July 2020 at 17:00.
Met Éireann, Wednesday 24 June 2020 |
| Climate Thursdays: new webinar series CLARA project in collaboration with Climateurope and other climate innovation projects funded by Horizon 2020, Copernicus Climate Change Service, Climate KIC and JPI Climate and ERA4CS have designed a webinar series on climate services and climate-related innovations CLARA project , Tuesday 23 June 2020 |
| Future research needs in support of climate services The ERA4CS workshop “Future research needs in support of climate services” was held on 9-10 June 2020 with the aim to take stock of recent achievements in the climate services, identify remaining knowledge gaps and research needs providing support to research and discuss possible new joint actions of JPI Climate.
JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 22 June 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, |