Global Change Research Institute CAS – CzechGlobe is proud to be a partner in IRISCC (Integrated Research Infrastructure Services for Climate Change risks), an EU-funded project that empowers interdisciplinary climate risk research by providing sponsored access to Europe’s leading research infrastructures.
Through IRISCC, CzechGlobe contributes services to the IRISCC Service Catalogue<https://www.iriscc.eu/catalogue-of-services>, which offers eligible researchers, policymakers, and industry professionals sponsored access to our facilities and tools via the Second Open Call<https://www.iriscc.eu/open-calls>. Access can be physical, remote, hybrid, or virtual, depending on the service.
Our Contribution
CzechGlobe offers services from the following facilities:
Experimental ecological workplace Bílý Kříž
The platforms provide access to cultivation domes, where cultivation of young Norway spruce, European beech saplings (up to age 10 years) under conditions of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration, reduced water availability and simulated N deposition teke place.
In addition, the grassland drought and warming experiment provide access to a manipulation experiment with automatic rain-out shelters in mountainous grassland combining the effect of drought, passive warming, and management.
An Ecosystem station provides continuous measurements of matter and energy fluxes using eddy covariance method and micrometeorological variables. A set of various additional auxiliary variables are collected according to ICOS rules. Data are made public with the possibility of additional sampling by the visiting teams within the mountainous Norway spruce ecosystem.
Services currently offered by the infrastructure: Bily Kriz station is a key CzechGlobe infrastructure and supports research across various topics. The infrastructure offers access by users in two ways: physical access and remote access. Examples of remote access are large-scale (continental) modelling of CO2 fluxes based on flux measurements under ICOS or FluxNet consortia and/or pan-European studies along wide environmental gradients investigating acclimation mechanisms to elevated CO2 concentration, drought, temperature, nutrient availability etc. supervised by AnaEE community. On the other hand, physical access offers to individual applicants or research groups using the Bily Kriz manipulation eperiments for non-invasive measurements, leaf or soil sampling and analyses.
These services support research across environmental, climate, and socio-ecological domains, helping users address hazards, exposure, and vulnerability while promoting scientific collaboration and innovative solutions for adaptation, mitigation, and societal resilience.
Apply Now
The Second Open Call for Transnational Access is now open:
- Opening: 29 September 2025
- Deadline: 28 November 2025
- Sponsored access covers access to services, installations, platforms and support; travel & subsistence up to €2000 per proposal. Salaries are not covered.
For more details about available services and how to apply, visit: www.iriscc.eu
For further information about CzechGlobe’s role in IRISCC, contact:
Dr. Ladislav Šigut (sigut.l@czechglobe.cz) or Dr. Karel Klem klem.k@czechglobe.cz