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The European network for observing our changing planet (ERA-PLANET)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2021,

In the last decade a significant number of projects and programmes in different domains of environmental monitoring and Earth observation have generated a substantial amount of data and knowledge on different aspects related to environmental quality and sustainability. Big data generated by in-situ or satellite platforms are being collected and archived with a plethora of systems and instruments m ...
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Coordinated Research in Earth Systems and Climate: Experiments, kNowledge, Dissemination and Outreach (CRESCENDO)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2015, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2020,

CRESCENDO brings together seven Earth System Modelling (ESM) groups with three Integrated Assessment Modelling teams, as well as experts in ESM evaluation, ESM projection and feedback analysis, climate impacts and science communication to address the following goals; (i) improve the process-realism and simulation-quality of European ESMs in order to increase the reliability of future Earth system ...
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Alternative models and robust decision-making for future forest management (ALTERFOR)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2016, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2020,

European forests are expected to provide a broad range of ecosystem services (ES). This capacity is however threatened by the uncertainties of climate change, the complex dynamics of evolving global markets and the pressures for increased use of bioenergy. Such challenges cannot be effectively addressed with an uncritical regional or national commitment to traditional forest management models (FMM ...
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A Citizen Observatory and Innovation Marketplace for Land Use and Land Cover Monitoring (LANDSENSE)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2016, Date de fin: 31 août 2020,

Currently within the EU’s Earth Observation (EO) monitoring framework, there is a need for low-cost methods for acquiring high quality in-situ data to create accurate and well-validated environmental monitoring products. The aim of the LandSense project is to build a far reaching citizen observatory for Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) monitoring that will also function as a technology innovation ma ...
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Effects of phosphorus limitations on Life, Earth system and Society (IMBALANCE-P)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 août 2020,

P is an earthbound and finite element and the prospect of constrained access to mineable P resources has already triggered geopolitical disputes. In contrast to P, availabilities of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) to ecosystems are rapidly increasing in most areas of the globe. The resulting imminent change in the stoichiometry of available elements will have no equivalent in the Earth’s history and w ...
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Ageing Trajectories of Health: Longitudinal Opportunities and Synergies (ATHLOS)

Date du début: 1 mai 2015, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2020,

The objective of the ATHLOS Project is to achieve a better understanding of ageing by identifying patterns of healthy ageing pathways or trajectories, the determinants of those patterns, the critical points in time when changes in trajectories are produced, and to propose timely clinical and public health interventions to optimise healthy ageing. Moreover, a new definition of ‘old age’ based on ma ...
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Guiding European Policy toward a low-carbon economy. Modelling Energy system Development under Environmental And Socioeconomic constraints (MEDEAS)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2016, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2019,

The transition to a low carbon economy needs to achieve multiple aims: competitiveness, protection of the environment, creation of quality jobs, and social welfare. Thus policy-makers and other key stakeholders require tools that need to focus beyond the energy sector by including these other domains of economy, society and the environment. Currently, most available tools lack integration of these ...
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GROW Observatory (GROW)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2016, Date de fin: 31 oct. 2019,

The GROW Observatory (GROW) will create a sustainable citizen platform and community to generate, share and utilise information on land, soil and water resource at a resolution hitherto not previously considered. The vision is to underpin smart and sustainable custodianship of land and soil, whilst meeting the demands of food production, and to answer a long-standing challenge for space science, n ...
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Linking Climate and Development Policies - Leveraging International Networks and Knowledge Sharing (CD-LINKS)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2015, Date de fin: 31 août 2019,

An important question for policy makers, in the G20 and beyond, is how to bring climate action into the broader sustainable development agenda. Objectives like energy poverty eradication, increased well-being and welfare, air quality improvement, energy security enhancement, and food and water availability will continue to remain important over the next several decades. There have been relatively ...
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Navigating the Roadmap for Clean, Secure and Efficient Energy Innovation (SET-Nav)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2016, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

SET-Nav will support strategic decision making in Europe’s energy sector, enhancing innovation towards a clean, secure and efficient energy system. Our research will enable the EC, national governments and regulators to facilitate the development of optimal technology portfolios by market actors. We will comprehensively address critical uncertainties and derive appropriate policy and market respon ...
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Harnessing the power of crowdsourcing to improve land cover and land-use information (CrowdLand)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

Information about land cover, land use and the change over time is used for a wide range of applications such as nature protection and biodiversity, forest and water management, urban and transport planning, natural hazard prevention and mitigation, agricultural policies and monitoring climate change. Furthermore, high quality spatially explicit information on land cover change is an essential inp ...
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Metrics, Models and Foresight for European Sustainable Food and Nutrition Security (SUSFANS)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2015, Date de fin: 31 mars 2019,

Strengthening food and nutrition security (FNS) in the EU requires a move towards a diet that supports sustainable food consumption and production. To gauge the policy reforms needed for this major societal challenge, the SUSFANS-consortium will identify how food production and nutritional health in the EU can be aligned. The multidisciplinary research agenda of SUSFANS will build the conceptual f ...
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Distributed, integrated and harmonised forest information for bioeconomy outlooks (DIABOLO)

Date du début: 1 mars 2015, Date de fin: 28 févr. 2019,

Europe’s bioeconomy is expected to foster economic growth and to tackle significant societal challenges with less harmful environmental effects through innovative, sustainable and inclusive use of European forest resources. Increasing demand for biomass and other ecosystem goods and services calls for changes in forest-related policies at different levels and across different sectors. Accordingly, ...
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Energy and emissions thresholds for providing decent living standards to all (DecentLivingEnergy)

Date du début: 1 juin 2015, Date de fin: 31 mai 2018,

There is confusion surrounding how poverty eradication will contribute to climate change. This is due to knowledge gaps related to the material basis of poverty, and the relationship between energy and human development. Addressing this issue rigorously requires bridging gaps between global justice, economics, energy systems analysis, and industrial ecology, and applying this knowledge to project ...
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Reassessing Ageing from a Population Perspective (Re-Ageing)

Date du début: 1 avr. 2013, Date de fin: 31 mars 2018,

Life expectancies in the EU have increased significantly over the past decades and are expected to continue increasing. Age-specific health statuses have also generally been improving. In contrast to these profound changes, the concepts that demographers have used to analyze ageing on a population level have remained largely static. The substantial changes in life expectancy and health status have ...
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Assessment of the impact of drivers of change on Europe's food and nutrition security (TRANSMANGO)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2014, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2018,

TRANSMANGO aims to obtain a comprehensive picture of the effects of the global drivers of change (climate, economic concentration and market structure, financial power, resource competition, marginalization, property rules, geo-political shifts, consumer preferences, consumption patterns and nutritional transition) on European and global food demand and on raw material production (and, consequent ...
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Social challenges of trans-Mediterranean renewable power cooperation (DESERTECTION)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2013, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2017,

Developed countries must completely decarbonize their power systems by mid-century if the world is to avoid dangerous climate change, and developing countries will have to follow soon thereafter. This will almost certainly include heavy reliance on renewable energy sources, and could include complete reliance. In the context of such a transition, both sound technical and economic analysis and curr ...
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Stimulating Innovation for Global Monitoring of Agriculture and its Impact on the Environment in support of GEOGLAM (SIGMA) (SIGMA)

Date du début: 1 nov. 2013, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2017,

By 2050, global agricultural productivity will need to increase with at least 70%. In order to guarantee food production for future generations, agricultural production will need to be based on sustainable land management practises. At present, earth observation based (global) crop monitoring systems focus mostly on short-term agricultural forecasts, thereby neglecting longer term environmental ef ...
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Coordinating an Observation Network of Networks EnCompassing saTellite and IN-situ to fill the Gaps in European Observations (ConnectinGEO)

Date du début: 1 févr. 2015, Date de fin: 31 janv. 2017,

ConnectinGEO’s primary goal is to link existing coordinated Earth Observation networks with science and technology (S&T) communities, the industry sector and the GEOSS and Copernicus stakeholders. The aim is to facilitate a broader and more accessible knowledge base to support the needs of the GEO Societal Benefit Areas (SBAs) and their users. A broad range of subjects from climate, natural resour ...
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Exploring the potential for agricultural and biomass trade in the Commonwealth of Independent States (AGRICISTRADE)

Date du début: 1 janv. 2014, Date de fin: 31 déc. 2016,

"The on-going negotiations on Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreements between the EU, Armenia, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine, the accession of Russia to the World Trade Organisation in 2012 and the establishment of a Customs Union between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2011 are expected to boost trade relations between the European Union and its Eastern Neighbours. The aim of AGRICISTRADE i ...
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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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Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a “resource-efficient” Bioeconomy in Europe (S2BIOM)

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

The main aim of this project is to support the sustainable delivery of non-food biomass feedstock at local, regional and pan European level through developing strategies, and roadmaps that will be informed by a “computerized and easy to use” toolset (and respective databases) with update harmonized datasets at local, regional, national and pan European level for EU27, western Balkans, Turkey and U ...
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Enhancing risk management partnerships for catastrophic natural disasters in Europe (ENHANCE)

Date du début: 1 déc. 2012, Date de fin: 30 nov. 2016,

The main goal of the ENHANCE project is to develop and analyse new ways to enhance society’s resilience to catastrophic natural hazard impacts, by providing new scenarios and information in selected hazard cases in close collaboration with stakeholders, and by contributing to the development of new multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) to reduce or redistribute risk. Innovation in MSPs is essential, a ...
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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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Knowledge Based Climate Mitigation Systems for a Low Carbon Economy (COMPLEX)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2016,

The science of complex systems distinguishes linear from non-linear dynamics. Simpler systems can often be satisfactory described by linear models, but complex systems require non-linear models that can capture more of the characteristics of such systems, such as thresholds, feedback loops, avalanche effects, and irreversibility. Linear systems can be validated by aligning models to the past and u ...
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Spatially integrated forest carbon accounting system (SIFCAS)

Date du début: 1 sept. 2014, Date de fin: 31 août 2016,

"This project contributes to advancing the state-of-the-art in environmental science and the geosciences in the specific area of applied system analysis and integrating modeling of spatially explicit verified greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory with a focus on forest carbon accounting. GHG (mainly carbon dioxide) emissions and removals in forests considerably vary from one region to another due to the ...
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Socio-economic implications for individual responses to Air Pollution Policies in EU +27 (SEFIRA)

Date du début: 1 juin 2013, Date de fin: 31 mai 2016,

SEFIRA has the objective of creating a European coordination of transdisciplinary scientific and socio-economic resources in order to support the review and implementation of air quality legislation by the European Commission (EC) led by DG Environment. The EC has now given increased attention to the socio-economic dimension of air quality policies in order to improve their effectiveness and accep ...
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Multi-Objective Decision Making Tools through Citizen Engagement (Consensus)

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

Every real-world planning problem, especially in governance and policy-making, possesses several objectives that are typically subject to inherent conflicts with underlying tradeoffs to be discovered. Policy makers are in need of proper tools that will utilize an overall analytical process, that is, assist in modelling the real-world planning process, automatically obtain the best attainable trade ...
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Effects of Climate Change on Air Pollution Impacts and Response Strategies for European Ecosystems (ECLAIRE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

ÉCLAIRE investigates the ways in which climate change alters the threat of air pollution on European land ecosystems including soils. Based on field observations, experimental data and models, it establishes new flux, concentration and dose-response relationships, as a basis to inform future European policies.Starting with biosphere-atmosphere exchange measurements, ÉCLAIRE quantifies how global w ...
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Quantifying projected impacts under 2°C warming (IMPACT2C)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2015,

Political discussions on the European goal to limit global warming to 2°C demands that discussions are informed by the best available science on projected impacts and possible benefits. IMPACT2C enhances knowledge, quantifies climate change impacts, and adopts a clear and logical structure, with climate and impacts modelling, vulnerabilities, risks and economic costs, as well as potential respons ...
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International Foresight Academy (IFA)

Date du début: 1 mai 2012, Date de fin: 30 avr. 2015,

"The proposed International Foresight Academy is the first organization to bind together Foresight activities around the globe and from contrasting cultural and political contexts. As the Mapping Report of the European Foresight Monitoring Network (2009) has documented, Foresight is used differently in various regions of the world. Foresight activities vary according to sponsors and customers, met ...
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The demography of skills and beliefs in Europe with a focus on cohort change (COHORT)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2009, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

The central research theme of this proposal is the study of social change (skills, productivity, attitudes and beliefs) in Europe along cohort lines and as a function of changing age composition. Using demographic methods, age-specific and cohort-specific changes shall be quantitatively disentangled. The impact of migration flows as well as fertility differentials combined with intergenerational t ...
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Systems Analysis Tools Framework for the EU Bio-Based Economy Strategy (SAT-BBE)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2012, Date de fin: 31 mars 2015,

One of the biggest challenges facing global society today is the provision of food, water, energy, healthcare and other resources and services to a world that will see its population increase by a third in the face of mounting environmental stresses over the next 20 years. SAT-BBE studies the contribution of a bioeconomy in many of these areas to ensure long term economic and environmental sustain ...
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Evaluating the Climate and Air Quality Impacts of Short-Lived Pollutants (ECLIPSE)

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

ECLIPSE aims to develop and assess effective emission abatement strategies for short-lived climate agents in order to provide sound scientific advice on how to mitigate climate change while improving the quality of air. Current climate policy does not consider a range of short-lived gases and aerosols, and their precursors (including nitrogen oxides, volatile organic compounds, sulphate, and black ...
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AN Integration of Mitigation and Adaptation options for sustainable Livestock production under climate CHANGE (ANIMALCHANGE)

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

ANIMALCHANGE will provide scientific guidance on the integration of adaptation and mitigation objectives and design sustainable development pathways for livestock production in Europe, in Northern and Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. ANIMALCHANGE will inform public policy development in EU27 and propose cooperation programs addressing smallholder livestock farming in selected developing count ...
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Changing Hydro-Meteorological Risks- As Analyzed by A New Generation of European Scientists (CHANGES)

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

The CHANGES network (Changing Hydro-meteorological Risks – as Analyzed by a New Generation of European Scientists) will develop an advanced understanding of how global changes (related to environmental ánd climate change as well as socio-economical change) will affect the temporal and spatial patterns of hydro-meteorological hazards and associated risks in Europe; how these changes can be assessed ...
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Pan-European Gas-AeroSol-climate interaction Study (PEGASOS)

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

The Pan-European Gas-AeroSOls-climate interaction Study (PEGASOS) European large scale integrating project brings together most of the leading European research groups, with state-of the-art observational and modeling facilities to:(1) Quantify the magnitude of regional to global feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and a changing climate and to reduce the corresponding uncertainty of the major ...
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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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Low climate IMpact scenarios and the Implications of required Tight emission control Strategies (LIMITS)

Date du début: 1 oct. 2011, Date de fin: 30 sept. 2014,

"Now and in the foreseeable future, action on climate mitigation and adaptation doesn’t seem to be sufficient to manage greenhouse gases and their impact at the scale required to achieve stringent objectives such as those compatible with the 2°C target. This project aims at carrying out a rigorous assessment of what a stringent climate policy entails, and what is needed to overcome major impedimen ...
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Assessment and Monitoring of Forest Resources in the Framework of the EU-Russia Space Dialogue (ZAPÁS)

Date du début: 1 août 2011, Date de fin: 31 juil. 2014,

"ZAPÁS delivers a set of procedures and products for forest resource assessment and monitoring. The team consists of a balanced contribution of leading experts from Europe and Russia in the field of Earth observation for forestry and includes a Russian Forest Research Institute which also apply remote sensing techniques. ZAPÁS investigates and cross validates methodologies using both Russian and E ...
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