Governance new – JPI Climate

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The principal JPI Climate governance bodies are:

Governing Board: All member countries are represented in the Governing Board (GB) by funding organisations relevant for JPI-related climate research. The role of the Governing Board is to guide overall strategic orientation. The Governing Board is supported by a Executive Committee that is responsible for overseeing the operational management of the JPI Action Groups.
Central Secretariat: The overall coordination and day-to-day management of the initiative is supported by a Central Secretariat (CS). The CS is instructed by the GB , works closely with the Executive Committee and the JPI Climate Chair and reports to the GB. The GB elects an Executive Committee for a period of 2 years, renewable once.
Action Groups: The Action Groups (AG) involve representatives of the JPI members and observers. They are appointed by the Governing Board and headed by up to two members and two additional countries that are interested in participating in the AG. Action Groups are in charge of the operational and programmatic activities of the JPI themes. They prepare working papers that are to be adopted by the Governing Board. Each Action Group has a spokesperson to the GB to represent the Action Group in the Executive Committee.
Transdisciplinary Advisory Board: This board, consisting of national and international members from academia and from relevant stakeholder groups, advises the Governing Board on specific issues on request. This Transdisciplinary Advisory Board is an important instrument to involve relevant stakeholder groups.
SRIA Scoping Forum: The SRIA Scoping Forum is organised every two years as a major exchange forum for researchers and stakeholders of different horizons, all invested in, relying on, or using climate change knowledge. The SRIA Scoping Forum is preceded by a series of scoping workshops and will build upon the outcomes of these workshops.

Read more about the JPI Climate Governance.

The governance structure of JPI Climate has been revised in line with its new Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda.

Governance Structure

Governance Principles Sustainability: Taking into account the challenges of climate change in the activities of JPI Climate, based on active reflection of operations (e.g. ‘green meetings’) and formulating the endeavour of constant improvement of the operations climate performance Stakeholder orientation: Integrating knowledge, values and objectives of stakeholders in the implementation and operation of the JPI through the active participation of stakeholder group representatives Adaptability: Responding to novel scientific insights and research requirements and to exigencies coming from societal and ecological transformations Transparency: Fostering information and experience sharing; collaboration on the notions of openness, mutual learning, mutual dependency and joint creativit Cost efficiency: Limiting superfluous duplication of scientific/technical and funding activities Read more about the Governance Principles.

Governing board

The Governing Board provides guidance in terms of the overall strategic orientation and structure of the initiative. All member countries will be represented by people who are mandated to take strategic decisions and to engage resources from various sources at national level for JPI-related climate change research.

The Governing Board is advised by the Transdisciplinary Advisory Board as well as by the Informal Group of AG Speakers. It receives strategic and operational support by the Executive Committee (ExCom) and the Central Secretariat (CS).

Karolina Begusch-Pfefferkorn (AT) – Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
Elisabeth Worliczek (AT) – Universität für Bodenkultur Wien
Frank Monteny (BE) – Belgian Science Policy – Belspo

The overall coordination and day-to-day management of the initiative will be supported by the Central Secretariat (CS) of the JPI. The CS is instructed by the Governing Board (GB) and works closely with the GB, Management Committee (MC) and Task Forces chairs and reports to the GB and MC.

The CS consists of 3 permanent staff members under the authority of the GB and can be extended by seconded or associated staff members, e.g. from JPI members. The composition is to be discussed and adopted by the GB.

The main CS tasks are:

to assist JPI bodies (GB, MC, WGs, TAB) by preparing meetings and inbetween meetings
to assist the chair and vice-chair of the GB in preparing the agenda for GB meetings
to ensure proper implementation of the GB decisions and to monitor follow-up of the action lists established by the GB and its WGs
to assure an efficient coordination between the various JPI bodies (GB, MC, WGs, TAB); and particularly support the exchange between the TAB and the GB as well as MC
to disseminate information and structure the collaboration with other initiatives
to assure institutional links through information provided by GB and expert board members
to ensure the communication and dissemination of information concerning this JPI to gain high visibility across Europe and beyond to facilitate the process of joint activities at large (e.g. joint strategic planning, joint calls, other co-alignment activities)

Governance

The principal JPI Climate governance bodies are:

Governance Structure

Governing board

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