
ERA4CS
European Research Area 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.
The overall objective of ERA4CS is to enhance user adoption of and satisfaction with Climate Services (incl. adaptation services).
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It implies the development of tools, methods and standardsto produce reliable information for various user needs to support smart stakeholder decisions and investment projects
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It aims to improve the scientific expertise on Climate Change risks and adaptation options,and to connect that knowledge with decision-making, e.g. by developing and assessing climate adaptation strategies and pathways at different scales (regions, cities, catchments, vulnerable sectors, etc.)
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It focuses on the development of a “climate information translation” layerincluding climate information production for CS as well as researching and advancing CS as such.

About
Within the European Research Area (ERA), the ERA4CS Consortium is aiming to boost, research for Climate Services (CS), including climate adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk management, allowing regions, cities and key economic sectors to develop opportunities and strengthen Europe’s leadership.
Climate Services are seen by our consortium as driven by user demands to provide knowledge to face impacts of climate variability and change, as well as guidance both to researchers and decision‐makers in policy and business. We will focus on the development of a “climate information translation” layer bridging “user communities” and “climate science system”. It implies the development of tools, methods, standards and quality control for reliable, qualified and tailored information required by the various field actors for smart decisions.
ERA4CS will boost the JPI Climate initiative by mobilizing more deeply, within EU Member States and Associated Countries, by involving both the research performing organizations (RPOs) and the research funding organizations (RFOs), the distinct national climate services and the various disciplines of academia, including Humanities and Social Sciences.
First activities start in 2016 with the launch of a large scale Joint Transnational Call for research proposals with cash and institutional funding from at least 16 countries and co-fund support of the European Commission (under Grant Agreement reference 690462).
Finally, ERA4CS additional activities will initiate a strong partnership between JPI Climate and others key European and international initiatives (as Copernicus, KIC-Climate, JPIs, WMO/GFCS, Future Earth, Belmont Forum…) in order to work towards a common vision and a multiyear implementation strategy, including better co-alignment of national programs and activities up to 2020 and beyond.
General information
Action title: European Research Area for Climate Services
Action acronym: ERA4CS
Starting date: 01/01/2016
Duration: 68 months (5 years and 8 months)
Action number: 690462
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union (Grant 690462)
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130
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projects
Other information
Background
The ERA-NET “European Research Area for Climate Services” (ERA4CS) is a network of 45 partner organisations: 15 public Research Funding Organisations (RFOs), and 30 Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) from 18 European countries designed to boost the development of efficient Climate Services (CS) in Europe. Most partners come from countries participating in the Joint Programming Initiative JPI Climate on “Connecting Climate Knowledge for Europe” (www.jpi-climate.eu), a collaboration of 16 European countries coordinating their climate research to inform and enable the transition to a low emission, climate resilient economy, society and environment in line with Europe’s long-term climate policy objectives.
ERA4CS is funded as an ERA-NET Co-fund action under the European Union´s Horizon 2020 Frame-work Program (Grant Agreement number 690462). Its partners intend to develop a durable collaboration in research funding policy and practices, thereby creating added value in high quality re-search contributing to the development of the European Research Area for CS. To improve user adoption of and satisfaction with CS, the overall aim is to research and advance CS development by supporting scientific 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 and change across national boundaries.
The present joint call on “Researching and Advancing Climate Services Development“ will be financed by ERA4CS partners contributing either by cash funding (RFOs, Topic A) or by in-kind re-sources (RPOs, Topic B) plus co-funding on both topics from the European Commission. A total budget of about 72 Mio € has been provisionally allocated for this call to support 3 years research projects.
What are Climate Services?
Easily accessible, timely, and decision-relevant scientific information can help society to cope with current and future climate variability and change in order to limit climate-related economic, social and ecological impacts and damages. This includes information about Climate Change (CC) mitiga-tion, adaptation and disaster risk management. Effective CS also allow society to take advantage of transformation opportunities, to build resilience to CC, to support a sustainable development and to contribute to a climate–resilient and climate-friendly society. CS could address wide timescales, i.e. month to century time-scale, going beyond current operational weather services.
There are different definitions of CS, which is a consequence of the wide variety of stakeholders and needs, as well differing functions of the organisations that deliver CS. ERA4CS uses the concept of CS in a broad sense, namely as user driven development, translation and transfer of climate knowledge, including knowledge for understanding the climate, CC and its impacts, as well as guid-ance in its use to researchers and to decision-makers in policy and business.
The aim is to respond to the increasing demand from stakeholders for usable information and solu-tions about CC impacts, vulnerability, risks and opportunities, their uncertainties and probabilities and options for actions. These stakeholders can include e.g. decision‐makers in enterprises, NGOs, policy makers from various levels (transnational, national, regional and local), as well as scientists using the data for impact and applied research, but also citizens and consumers.
This variety reflects a wide scope of “user needs” in which information requirements may differ significantly. CS should thus be tailored to meet specific needs of various sectors as well as cross-sectoral requirements. They are meant to communicate climate knowledge in a way that it is scien-tifically sound and easily understood, facilitating decision making, and integrating it into the broader context of societal, economic and environmental changes.
Climate Services therefore need to be developed in a solution-oriented approach working with stakeholders and practitioners. As a result, users should also influence the development of CS and the underpinning research by defining their needs and developing specific requests for CS (usually referred to as “co-development”). This feedback loop should improve the research for CS.
ERA4CS in the European Climate Services landscape
The CS landscape (in Europe) is shaped by a variety of fields and actors as shown in Figure 1 (adapted from the “Horizon 2020 Societal Challenge 5 Advisory Group Report 2014”). This schematic shows the interlinks and –dynamics of CS which range from societal needs (right side) to scientific information (left side). Fundamental information should be translated, from climate science, to analysis of CC impacts, and combined with socio-economic and demographic information, to identify vulnerabilities and risks. Further “translation” towards the end user communities can be facilitated by “knowledge brokers”. The added value can lead to market development from business and wider decision-making perspectives. This reinforces the “service demand” which represents a strong feedback to stimulate and support scientific knowledge development.
ERA4CS represents a significant contribution to the implementation of the European Roadmap for Climate Services. It is expected to both, contribute to benefit from and complement linked initiatives within the European landscape. These are e.g. the WP 2016/17 H2020 SC5 Actions on CS market research to exploit CS added value, to improve regional climate modelling or to access Earth observations, Actions resulting from the WP2014/15 calls for Climate Adaptation and Climate Ser-vices of H2020, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) focusing on essential climate variables, climate information provision, data access facilitation and operational climate service delivery primarily for policy makers and public authorities, or European and national CC adaptation knowledge platforms and portals, like e.g. Climate-ADAPT or Climate-KIC projects. The aspects which are addressed by this call within this landscape are displayed in green in the below figure.
Figure 1: Simplified Climate Service Landscape in Europe for the period 2015-2017.The main focus of the 2016 ERA4CS call is displayed in green, and is related to complementary roles of other main European initiatives (H2020 WP 2016-2017 SC5 Actions, the 2015 JPI Climate call on Climate pre-dictability and interregional linkages, Copernicus Climate Change Service, EIT/Climate-KIC).
ERA4CS is designed to support research that develops better tools, methods and standards on how to produce, transfer, communicate and use reliable climate and related information. This call mobilizes both the Research Funding Organisations (RFOs) and the Research Performing Organisations (RPOs) in EU Member States and Associated Countries. The aim is to enhance national CS activities and support the various disciplines to address research gaps that exist between the diverse needs of user communities and climate system science.
The call places an emphasis on integrated research that creates a bridge between observations, model development, operational products, information translation and user uptake. One of the main objectives of ERA4CS is to improve quality, satisfaction and user adoption of CS (incl. adaptation services). At the same time ERA4CS aims to improve the scientific expertise on CC risks and adaptation options, and to connect that knowledge with decision-making, e.g. by developing and assessing climate adaptation strategies and pathways for countries, regions, cities, catchments and vulnerable sectors.
The feedback loop from users to research development is crucial in this context during the project lifetime, from co-design of research priorities to co-development of tools, up to the co-production and co-evaluation of products and a subsequent refinement of the research strategy. Resulting products/instruments from ERA4CS will help to assess vulnerability, impacts, and adaptation responses to current and future climate variability and change including extremes for specific regions, sectors, over relevant time periods and spatial scales. They may for example be designed to provide insight into CC effects in urban and/or rural areas, in order to assist in determination of the appropriate risk reduction and adaption measures. They could also advance understanding of integrated management of small to large scale ecological and social systems (e.g. a city within a larger system) and how this can be optimized to face climate variability and change (e. g. for the prevention of droughts or flooding or the adverse effects of other extreme events). CS may also be designed to help e. g. shaping a climate adaption plan for an entire catchment area or river basin, shedding light on the integrated behaviour of water systems influenced by CC and dynamic user demands. The concept could include approaches to address multi-driver vulnerability, risk and economic analyses, e. g. arising from infrastructure investments, assessing aspects of adaptation measures, and guiding their implementation in planning processes and including dealing with conflicting interests, institutional issues and wider societal and environmental objectives.
By developing a “translation layer along the Climate Service chain” ERA4CS expects to stimulate advanced solutions for risk reduction and adaptation, including the management of uncertainties, possibly giving at the same time an impulse for the development of a CS market. The assessment of the potential of such advanced approaches in the field of CS (incl. demonstration of the added value) is part of this call. The operational deployment and building of the market itself as well as the routine provision of raw and generic climate information (observations, projections, etc.) is not included. As shown in Figure 1 these are part of complementary initiatives, such as Copernicus, Climate-KIC and Horizon 2020 (c.f. European research and innovation Roadmap for CS).
Call Topics
There are two distinct and coherent topics, with two separate target groups and funding modes:
- Topic A “Advanced co-development with users” is open to all applicants from the 13 countries with participating RFOs (see Annexes for Topic A), who comply with the national eligibility criteria (see National Annexes).
- Topic B “Institutional integration” is open only to applicants from the 30 mandated RPOs (Annexes for Topic B), subject to their specific eligibility criteria (see RPO Annexes). This means it is not open to external applicants outside of these organisations.
The ERA4CS consortium is based on solid, competent and internationally recognized RFOs and RPOs. Key RFOs, members of the JPI Climate Governing Board , have already established and agreed on a flexible model of joint calls and evaluation procedures whose efficiency is acknowledged by both recurrent calls in 2013 and in 2015 (the latter with the international Belmont Forum). This experience is of high added value to stimulate or evaluate activities made by RPOs in the field of climate-related research. Thus, the consortium was extended to key RPOs (incl. members of the JPI Climate) to constitute a highly visible initiative in Europe and beyond, with complementary co-funded topics and additional activities.
ERA4CS will complement other funding programmes and activities on climate services research at European level (such as e.g. H2020, Copernicus and KIC Climate) and at the international level (such as GFCS, Future Earth and Belmont Forum). It will focus its efforts on planning, implementing and monitoring a joint transnational call between Members States and Associated Countries, increasing their scope through top-up funding from the EC. ERA4CS is designed in close collaboration with JPI Climate and aims to include new partners and countries, to better coalign activities and reduce fragmentation of the research landscape to enable the relevant stakeholders to make better use of the available climate knowledge.
The main objectives of this action are divided in two parts:
Part A is dedicated to the activities related to the co-funded call
Part B is dedicated to additional activities
ERA4CS activities are based on the preparatory work already undertaken by JPI Climate during the last 5 years, including especially the Working Group 2 on “Climate Services” and the Strategic Research Agenda that was agreed upon, as well as the preparatory work undertaken by the ad-hoc Governing Board Task Force on “ERA-Net on Climate Services” established in Copenhagen, December 2013. The outcome of the “Demand driven Climate services in Europe” workshop, organized by JPI Climate in June 2015, provided valuable input by stakeholders for the call design as well.
The overall objective of ERA4CS is to enhance user adoption of and satisfaction with Climate Services (incl. adaptation services).
It implies the development of tools, methods and standards to produce reliable information (projections with impact and vulnerability assessments) for various user needs to support smart stakeholder decisions and investment projects, encompassing public, private and community sectors.
At the same time ERA4CS aims to improve the scientific expertise on Climate Change risks and adaptation options, and to connect that knowledge with decision-making, e.g. by developing and assessing climate adaptation strategies and pathways at different scales (regions, cities, catchments, vulnerable sectors, etc.).
It focuses on the development of a “climate information translation” layer including climate information production for CS as well as researching and advancing CS as such.
Improving the quality of Climate Services is also within the scope of ERA4CS Joint Transnational call.
Representation of the governance structures of ERACS and their connections
General Assembly (GA)
The General Assembly is composed of one representative from each partner organisation participating in the ERA4CS Consortium.
The General Assembly is chaired by the ERA4CS Coordinator, with vice-chairs identified and elected by the consortium each year at the first General Assembly meeting. The General Assembly is the decision-making body for matters related to the Additional Activities and the evolution of the consortium. The General Assembly meets at least once a year.
Executive Board (EB)
The Executive Board is composed of the Coordinator and the Work Package (WP) leaders. The Executive Board supervises the work made by the Coordinating Unit and reports to the GA. It helps the Coordinator supervise the WPs and tasks and ensure the coherence of the ERA-NET as a whole. The Executive Board meets at least four times a year, either physically or virtually depending on the needs.
Cash Management Board (CMB)
The CMB is composed of one representative from each partner organisation participating in the cash topic of the joint call (topic A). The CMB is the decision-making body for the cash topic of the joint call. Members of the CMB cannot apply to the joint call. The CMB will propose experts for the evaluation process of the joint call.
In-Kind Management Board (KMB)
The KMB is composed of one representative from each partner organisation participating in the in-kind topic of the joint call (topic B). The KMB is the decision-making body for the in-kind topic of the joint call. Full members of the KMB, involved in the build-up of the topic and the eligibility process, cannot apply to the in-kind topic of the joint call. Deputy members not involved in these particular processes can still apply.
The KMB will not take part in the evaluation process of the joint call, to avoid conflicts of interest.
General Assembly limited to the Funding Parties
The CMB and KMB together correspond to the General Assembly limited to the Funding Parties. Outside the prerogatives of either CMB or KMB, this Assembly is the decision-making body for matters related to the joint call.
Coordination unit (CU)
The Coordination Unit is based at ANR and composed of the coordinator, the executive manager, the Joint Call Secretariat (JCS) and the financial & administrative officer. The Coordination Unit continuously supports the General Assembly, the JCS, the WP leaders and all other partners of ERA4CS in fulfilling their duties according to the work plan. The Coordination Unit is supervised by the Executive Board.
Joint Call Secretariat (JCS)
The JCS, part of the Coordination Unit at ANR, is in charge of coordinating the preparation and evaluation of the joint call.
The coordinator monitors all actions taken by the JCS, within the Coordination Unit.
External Advisory Board
In addition to the above, the JPI Climate Transdisciplinary Advisory Board will be consulted as an external advisory board for ERA4CS.
For this purpose, the JPI Climate Transdisciplinary Advisory Board will invite representatives of Climate-KIC, Copernicus and the European Environment Agency. The board will bring an independent vision of stakeholders on developments and new challenges on climate services.
The people from this board consulted in the build-up of the joint call cannot apply to it.
Funding agencies
French National Research Agency
Irish Environmental Protection Agency
Belgian Federal Science Policy Office
The Research Council of Norway
Austrian Research Promotion Agency
Dutch Research Council
Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning
Agencia Estatal de Investigación
Programme consortium
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland
IRSTEA
Technical University of Dortmund
University of Innsbruck
University of Cordoba
University of Granada
Technical University of Denmark
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Stockholm Environment Institute
Smart Hydro Power GmbH
University of Bonn
West African Science Service Centre on Climate Change and Adapted Land Use
Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research
Deltares
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
University of Porto
German Aerospace Centre
The NOVA School of Science and Technology
Eletricidade de Portugal
Deutscher Wetterdienst
Institute for Sustainable Economic Development
Institute of Water Management, Hydrology and Hydraulic Engineering
Wien Energie
Centre Observation, Impacts, Energie de MINES ParisTech
Research Centre for Energy, Climate and Marine
Luleå University of Technology
Association for the Research and Development of Sciences
University of Minho
Catalan Institute for Water Research
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Instituto Português do Mar e da Atmosfera
Technical University of Denmark
University of Copenhagen
Lund University
The Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
The Regional Public Health Services Gelderland-Midden
Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
Wageningen Environmental Research
The Research Council of Norway
Centre for international climate research
Meteo-France
Institute for Climate Economics
Carbone 4
Climate Adaptation Services
University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Centre for Ecological Research and Forestry Applications
National Institute for Research and Development in Forestry Marin Dracea
Centre for international climate research
Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
Marine Institute
Stockholm Environment Institute
Daithi O’Murchu Marine Research Station
Alfred Wegener Institute
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
French Institute for Ocean Science
University of Nantes
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie
Institute of Marine Research
INCDM Grigore antipa
Utrecht University
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
University of Bergen
CEARC Research Center
University of Bremen
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Goethe University Frankfurt
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Le Mans Université
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Kisters AG
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory
The International Centre for Water Resources and Global Change
Quantis
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute
Larvik municipality, Norway
Värmland County Administrative Board
Province of North Brabant
Drents Overijselse Delta Waterboard
City of Flensburg, Germany
Swedish Geotechnical Institute
Deltares
Department of Geography at Christian-Albrechts University Kiel
Wageningen Environmental Research
German Climate Service Centre
Ecologic Institute
The Polytechnic University of Valencia
University of the French West Indies and Guiana
Utrecht University
French Geological Survey
CREOCEAN
LIENSs - UMR 7266
Global Climate Forum
University of the Balearic Islands
Centre for international climate research
Umeå University
Senckenberg Institute for Climate and Biodiversity
International Institute for Advanced System Analysis
Global Climate Forum
Goethe University Frankfurt
The Autonomous University of Barcelona
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l’Environment
University Pablo de Olavide
Utrecht University
Climate Analytics
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Umeå University
Wageningen University & Research
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Danish Meteorological Institute
The Norwegian College of Fishery Science
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Wageningen University & Research
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Potsdam University of Applied Sciences
Stockholm Environment Institute
Marine Institute
Catalan Institute for Water Research
University of Cantabria
Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research
Aarhus University
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Norwegian Institute for Water Research
Uppsala University
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Department of Earth systems science and environmental technologies
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The State Meteorological Agency
Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria
NCSR Demokritos
French Geological Survey
The Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Centre for Materials and Coastal Research
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Met Office UK
Met Éireann
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Meteo-France
French Geological Survey
Global Change Research Centre Czech Academy of Sciences
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
University of Reading
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Meteo Romania
The State Meteorological Agency
Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Instituto Pirenaico de Ecología
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
Meteo-France
The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
The Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
The State Meteorological Agency
National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment
Plan Blue
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
NCSR Demokritos
Department of Earth systems science and environmental technologies
French Geological Survey
Global Change Research Centre Czech Academy of Sciences
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Meteo-France
The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Meteo Romania
The National Institute of Geographic and Forest Information
Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change
University of Reading
Met Éireann
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute
Finnish Meteorological Institute
Meteorologisk Institutt
Institute of Environmental Hydraulics of Cantabria
NCSR Demokritos
Projects
Documents
In parallel with the call, ERA4CS additional activities are planned throughout the 5 years of the ERA4CS action. These activities are dedicated to assess and develop JPI Climate activities contributing to research for CS. It will take strong advantage on the complementarity between research funders (RFOs) and performers (RPOs) of the ERA4CS consortium. It is on line with the overall target of Joint Programming, i.e. towards better alignment between funders and performers in Europe. In practice, ERA4CS Additional Activities target both a “common vision” and a “pilot experiment” for co-alignment. It will contribute to develop a strong partnership between Member States as well as Associated Countries, key research organizations and key European initiatives up to 2020 and beyond, to contribute on sustainable development goal to face climate change. All documents developed by the projects are accessible.
The ERA4CS Monitoring tool was online tool for reporting, monitoring, and assessing the cofounded projects. This tool enabled the easy collection and management project data to ensure an efficient centralization of data handling and a small administrative burden. It is a platform only for exchanging information related to the reporting and reviewing process. The tool has been structured following these requirements:
Rapid implementation: the tool has been designed using Redmine, a flexible project management web application
Application of the JPI Climate governance principles
Guaranteed secured storage of data
Real-time monitoring and analysis of the projects
Upload of complementary documents (progress and review reports)
Sending automatic notifications to project holders combined with notifications to the administrator when new data appears in the system
An NDA to be confirmed by users has been included for confidentiality reasons.
The ERA4CS monitoring tool was hosted by Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.
- Brochure
ERA4CS Report on the retrospective evaluation of the call procedures
- Report
Report on mapping of ERA4CS member states’ national activities for climate services
- Report
Enhancing the value of climate data – translating risk and uncertainty and uncertainty utilizing a living labs approach
- Report
ERA4CS Tables of productions of the projects
- Document
EO based Operational applications for the fire management within the SERV_FORFIRE project
- Report
Report on ERA4CS Kick off meeting
- Report
ERA4CS Additional Activities – Mapping of European and International Activities
- Report
Webinar report – ERA4CS Task 7.4 – 1 June 2017
- Report
Webinar report – ERA4CS Task 7.4 – 31 March 2017
- Magazine & booklet
The booklet of ERA4CS funded projects
- Report
ERA4CS – Additional Activity Task 7.4 – Climate Services – Synergies, Gaps and Challenges
- Document
Joint Programming Initiatives JPIs
- Brochure
Joint Programming Initiatives general brochure
- Document
ERA4CS Joint Call Text
- Report
Report on Final Meeting to present ERA4CS projects results
- Report
2nd JPI Climate Scoping Forum Symposium 2020 report: Providing Knowledge for a climate neutral and resilient Europe
- Report
Pilot experiment for co-alignment of national research activities for Climate Services
- Article in journal
Predicted and user perceived heat strain using the ClimApp mobile tool for individualized alert and advice
- Article in journal
Summertime precipitation extremes in a EURO-CORDEX 0.11° ensemble at an hourly resolution.
- Article in journal
A comparison of hydrological climate services at different scales by users and scientists.
- Article in journal
How the performance of hydrological models relates to credibility of projections under climate change.
- Article in journal
Climate change: Sources of uncertainty in precipitation and temperature projections for Denmark.
- Article in journal
An information theory approach to identifying a representative subset of hydro-climatic simulations for impact modeling studies.
- Article in journal
Evolving Climate Services into Knowledge–Action Systems.
- Article in journal
Sea ice variability and maritime activity around Svalbard in the period 2012–2019
- Report
Enhancing the Saliency of climate services for marine mobility Sectors in European Arctic Seas
- Article in journal
Ocean Swells along the Global Coastlines and Their Climate Projections for the Twenty-First Century.
- Article in journal
Scaling up from regional case studies to a global harmful algal bloom observing system.
- Article in journal
Added Value of Large Ensemble Simulations for Assessing Extreme River Discharge in a 2 °C Warmer World
- Report
Co-production of Climate Services: A diversity of approaches and good practice from the ERA4CS projects
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 1st issue March 2016
- Report
Mid-term meeting of ERA4CS projects
- Report
Report of the joint JPI Climate & FACCE-JPI workshop “Land-based greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions/removals and analysis systems”
- Video
Video: ECCA2021 virtual session ‘At your Service’
- Report
Scoping Workshop “Future research needs in support of Climate Services” 9-10 June 2020 Full report
- Report
Initial report on Implementation Strategy for Climate Services research: Results of the First JPI-Climate Scoping Forum Process
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 2nd issue April 2016
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 4th issue September 2016
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 3rd issue May 2016
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 5th issue April 2017
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 6th issue August 2017
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 7th issue December 2017
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 8th issue April 2018
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 9th issue September 2018
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 10th issue December 2018
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 11th issue April 2019
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 12th issue August 2019
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 13th issue December 2019
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 14th issue April 2020
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 15th issue September 2020
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 16th issue January 2021
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 17th issue October 2021
- Newsletter
ERA4CS Newsletter 18th issue December 2021
- Document
A short guide of ERA4CS projects
- Report
Summary Report for the Climate Neutrality Forum: Sensitive Intervention Points for Achieving Climate Neutrality
- Report
Synthetic Report on ERA4CS Summer School
- Video
Video: ERA4CS projects results in Climate Services
- Video
What climate services can do for us – ERA4CS video
- Brochure
Climate services at work, ERA4CS projects exchange and networking
News
Contact
Patrick Monfray worked as Coordinator of ERA4CS, involving 45 research organizations from 18 countries which launched 26 projects for 63 M€ to enhance climate services efficiency and usefulness. Patrick Monfray has stepped down from this position on July 1st 2017. He moved from ANR (Agence Nationale de Recherche, France) to the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation as Deputy Director of the Research and Innovation Strategy Department, where he continues to represent France as a member of GPC (Groupe de Programmation Conjointe), a body of the Council of the European Union dealing with joint programming.
Philippe Bougeault has taken over the coordination for ERA4CS. Philippe Bougeault was a former representative of Météo-France within ERA4CS and an international senior in the field of climate change research. Philippe, who worked for ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche France) which was coordinating ERA4CS, led the next phase of this large scale ERA-NET with the launch of the 26 projects in September 2017 and their follow-up, as well as their link to JPI Climate activities, especially in the context of the JPI Climate Scoping Forums.
ERA4CS Coordination
ERA4CS Coordinator
Philippe Bougeault
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) – France
E-mail: Philippe.Bougeault@agencerecherche.fr
ERA4CS Vice-Chairs
Dr. Dagmar Bley
Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR) – Germany
E-mail: dagmar.bley@dlr.de
Dr. Antonio Navarra
Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici (CMCC) – Italy
E-mail: antonio.navarra@cmcc.it
ERA4CS Executive Manager
Inès Alterio
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) – France
E-mail: Ines.ALTERIO@agencerecherche.fr
Joint Call Secretariat
Dr. Johann Müller
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) – France
E-mail: Johann.MULLER@agencerecherche.fr
JPI Climate Central Secretariat
Web management
Petra Manderscheid
E-mail: petra.manderscheid@jpi-climate.belspo.be
Maija Malnaca
E-mail: maija.malnaca@jpi-climate.belspo.be

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