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
| INNOVA has released its 5th Emagazine INNOVA has released its 5th Emagazine: Taiwan megacity Kaohsiung: how to beat extreme climate events in a tropical metropole
University of Wageningen, Friday 21 February 2020 |
| AQUACLEW Workshop for students on climate services The University of Cordoba, a partner of the AQUACLEW project, gave a workshop for students from the University of Granada on climate services (CS) in December. This workshop is part of an experiment carried out across Europe (Germany, Austria, France and Spain), in which engineering students in bachelor and master programmes (agronomic, civil, forestry, geotechnical, hydraulic) act as potential CS users with a similar background knowledge. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Monday 27 January 2020 |
| Two additonal projects on ocean-climate interactions funded through JPI Oceans and JPI Climate Thanks to an increase in financial commitment by several national funding agencies, a further two proposals to the joint JPI Climate and JPI Oceans call were now awarded funding. These two research projects are in addition to another two that had already been selected earlier through the same competitive call process. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 14 January 2020 |
| The third call of “ERA4CS exchange action for officers” is open The ERA4CS project launches the third 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 2 January 2020 |
| COP25 Side Event “Connecting scientific knowledge to implement the Paris Agreement. The value of trust in international research cooperation” The JPI Climate side event held on 12 December in Italian Pavilion at 6-8 pm in Madrid, Spain gathered around 40 participants among the COP25 attendants. A welcome speech was given by Italian Minister of Research and Education, Sergio Costa, who emphasized the importance of reliable climate information and translated to specific needs for action. JPI Climate Central Secretariat, Tuesday 17 December 2019 |
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, |