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Transformative Social Innovation Theory project (TRANSIT)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

The aim of TRANSIT (Transformative Social Innovation Theory) is to build a theory of social innovation that is useful not only to academics, but also to policy makers, social entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders. The starting point for TRANSIT is the need to understand transformative social innovations: social innovations that contribute to systemic changes that address urgent societal challenges ...
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High-End cLimate Impacts and eXtremes (HELIX)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2017,

"With the target of limiting global warming to 2ºC increasingly difficult to achieve, policymakers, businesses and other decision-makers need to plan to adapt to changes in climate under higher levels of global warming. This requires coherent information on the future climate conditions, and the consequences of different adaptation actions. International negotiations on limiting global warming a ...
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Advanced Model Development and Validation for Improved Analysis of Costs and Impacts of Mitigation Policies (ADVANCE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

Integrated assessment and energy-economy models have become central tools for informing long-term global and regional climate mitigation strategies. There is a large demand for improved representations of complex system interactions and thorough validation of model behaviour in order to increase user confidence in climate policy assessments. ADVANCE aims to respond to this demand by facilitating t ...
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MODelling vegetation response to EXTREMe Events (MODEXTREME)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2016,

The continuous supply of services provided by agricultural systems is increasingly threatened by climate change in association with an estimated increase in the frequency of extreme weather events such as droughts, heat waves or heavy precipitation events.MODEXTREME has the overarching goal to help the European and non-European agriculture face extreme climatic events by improving the capability o ...
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Economics of climate change adaptation in Europe (ECONADAPT)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2013, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

The aim of the ECONADAPT project is to provide user-orientated methodologies and evidence relating to economic appraisal criteria to inform the choice of adaptation actions using analysis that incorporates cross-scale governance under conditions of uncertainty. A critical theme of the proposal is therefore to support the application of adaptation economics in the period following the publication o ...
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Earth system Model Bias Reduction and assessing Abrupt Climate change (EMBRACE)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2011, Date de fin: 29 févr. 2016,

EMBRACE brings together the leading Earth System Models (ESMs) in Europe around a common set of objectives to improve our ability to (i) simulate the Earth System and (ii) make reliable projections of future global change. EMBRACE builds on the existing European collaboration network in Earth System Modelling and will be the main European input to international efforts in this field over the comin ...
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Integrated non-CO2 Greenhouse gas Observing System (INGOS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2015,

InGOS will support and integrate the observing capacity of Europe for non-CO2 greenhouse gases (NCGHG: CH4, N2O, SF6, H2 and halocarbons). The emissions of these gases are very uncertain and it is unknown how future climate change will feedback into the land use coupled emissions of CH4 and N2O. The NCGHG atmospheric abundances will increase further in the future and the emissions of these gases a ...
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Architecture and roadmap to manage multiple pressures on lagoons (ARCH)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2011, Date de fin: 31 août 2015,

The ARCH research project “Architecture and roadmap to manage multiple pressures on lagoons” aims to develop participative methodologies in collaboration with policy makers, local authorities and stakeholders to manage the multiple problems affecting lagoons (estuarine coastal areas). These areas represent ecosystems that are very vulnerable for climate change, increasing urbanisation and industri ...
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Atopic diseases in changing climate, land use and air quality (ATOPICA)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

There is an urgent need to understand how global and regional climate, land use and air quality changes will impact human health. Our consortium constitutes an innovative and multidisciplinary approach to explore the combined pan-European impact of changes in climate, land use and air pollution on allergen pollen-induced diseases through a chain of quantitative physical and statistical models. We ...
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Changes in carbon uptake and emissions by oceans in a changing climate (CARBOCHANGE)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2015,

CARBOCHANGE will provide the best possible process-based quantification of net ocean carbon uptake under changing climate conditions using past and present ocean carbon cycle changes for a better prediction of future ocean carbon uptake. We will improve the quantitative understanding of key biogeochemical and physical processes through a combination of observations and models. We will upscale new ...
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Operational Global Carbon Observing System (GEOCARBON)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

Today, countries use a wide variety of methods to monitor the carbon cycle and it is difficult to compare datafromcountry to country and to get a clear global picture. The current global observational and modelling capabilitiesallow us to produce estimates of carbon budget at different level (from local to global) but many uncertainties stillremain. Decision makers need now more than ever systemat ...
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Gliders for Research, Ocean Observation and Management (GROOM)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2014,

Underwater gliders are intelligent and affordable platforms, useful for long-term, multi parameter marine observations. Because of their remotely controlled navigational capabilities and the high spatial and temporal resolution of their measurements in real-time, gliders have been identified to fill gaps existing in the existing ocean observing systems. Along with there rapidly growing importance ...
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European Union Basin-scale Analysis, Synthesis and Integration (EURO-BASIN) (EURO-BASIN)

Date du début: 31 déc. 2010, Date de fin: 30 déc. 2014,

EURO-BASIN is designed to advance our understanding on the variability, potential impacts, and feedbacks of global change and anthropogenic forcing on the structure, function and dynamics of the North Atlantic and associated shelf sea ecosystems as well as the key species influencing carbon sequestering and ecosystem functioning. The ultimate goal of the program is to further our capacity to manag ...
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European Trans-disciplinary Assessment of Climate Engineering (EuTRACE)

Date du début: 1 juin 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,

Growing concern over the difficulty of efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions has recently led to an intense discussion of “Climate Engineering” (CE) - techniques for global-scale intervention to offset global warming. These have great potentials, but also entail serious risks and uncertainties. CE is rapidly gaining scientific, political, commercial, and public attention, and the firs ...
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(International) Socio-Technical Challenges for implementing geological disposal (INSOTEC)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 30 juin 2014,

InSOTEC aims at identifying the main socio-political challenges for implementing geological disposal and their interplay with technical challenges. It will furthermore provide the IGD-TP with concrete suggestions on how to address these entangled socio-technical challenges.The biggest challenge today lies in adapting the generic concept of geological disposal to the real world environment (both na ...
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EUropean Reanalysis and Observations for Monitoring (EURO4M)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2010, Date de fin: 31 mars 2014,

"EURO4M will develop the capacity for, and deliver the best possible and most complete (gridded) climate change time series and monitoring services covering all of Europe. These will describe the evolution of the Earth system components by seamlessly combining two different but complementary approaches: regional observation datasets of Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) on the one hand and model b ...
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Climate Local Information in the Mediterranean region: Responding to User Needs (CLIM-RUN)

Date du début: 1 mars 2011, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2014,

"CLIM-RUN aims at developing a protocol for applying new methodologies and improved modeling and downscaling tools for the provision of adequate climate information at regional to local scale that is relevant to and usable by different sectors of society (policymakers, industry, cities, etc.). Differently from current approaches, CLIM-RUN will develop a bottom-up protocol directly involving stakeh ...
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Enhancing Robustness and Model Integration for The Assessment of Global Environmental Change (ERMITAGE)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2010, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2013,

"The development of interdisciplinary modelling tools and platforms to address the interactions between natural and socio-economic systems is an active research area in Europe. Nevertheless, notable gaps still exist in modelling capabilities, in particular, very little progress has been made to date in the direct coupling of models that resolve the spatial distribution of climate change with secto ...
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Stratospheric ozone: Halogen Impacts in a Varying Atmosphere (Shiva)

Date du début: 1 juil. 2009, Date de fin: 30 juin 2013,

SHIVA aims to reduce uncertainties in present and future stratospheric halogen loading and ozone depletion resulting from climate feedbacks between emissions and transport of ozone depleting substances (ODS). Of particular relevance will be studies of short and very short-lived substances (VSLS) with climate-sensitive natural emissions. We will perform field studies of ODS production, emission and ...
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Amélioration de l'efficaité et de la biodisponibilité des médicaments (Improving Drugs Efficacy and Availability) (IDEA)

Date du début: 31 mai 2009, Date de fin: 29 juin 2013,

Partners of the IDEA project will develop an original research activity programme with technical applications, to design new solid state pharmaceuticals. The purpose is to enhance the bioavailability, efficacy, chemical and physical stability, safety and predictability of both new and existing drugs.The IDEA project aims to position the 2 Seas area as an international leader in the solid state pha ...
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European responses to climate change: deep emissions reductions and mainstreaming of mitigation and adaptation (RESPONSES)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2010, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2013,

EU action on climate change is now focused on accelerating mitigation efforts, while seeking to reduce risks associated with climate change impacts. To achieve the multiple goals of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, reducing vulnerability to climate impacts, and building mitigative and adaptive capacities, climate action needs to be mainstreamed across all EU policy sectors. As the scale of Europe ...
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Coordination Action Carbon Observation System (COCOS)

Date du début: 1 mai 2008, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2011,

"COCOS will assess the status of harmonization of key carbon cycle variables with international partners. It will improve the interoperability of data sets that are used in global scale carbon cycle studies through joint activities between ecosystem, atmospheric and ocean bottom-up and top down observation communities. COCOS will also perform integrated regional-scale multiple constraint assessmen ...
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Climate Change and Marine Ecosystem Research Results (CLAMER)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2010, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2011,

"Although there is no certainty regarding the precise nature and rate of future climate change, even the most moderate scenarios predict a continuing change of the marine environment, with associated major environmental and social impacts. To prepare society for the necessary mitigation and adaptation measures, the awareness of citizens to research results, both certainties and uncertainties, in t ...
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Full Costs of Climate Change (ClimateCost)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2008, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2011,

There is increasing interest in the economics of climate change to inform policy on a) long-term targets, b) the costs of inaction (the economic effects of climate change), and c) the costs and benefits of adaptation. The objectives of this study are to advance knowledge across all three areas, i.e. the full economic costs of climate change, through the following tasks: 1. To identify and develop ...
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