Provider: Grantová agentura České republiky
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: drought;validation; drought event trajectories;agricultural drought;hydrological drought; drought typlogy; global drought event catalogue;accumulated impacts;soil moisture
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Drought represents one of the costliest natural extreme facing society and a fundamental shift
in the study methods is needed. The team will apply validated SoilClim soil moisture and mHM
hydrological models on the global scale. The team will: i) create a global catalog of dry episodes
between 1951 and 2022 with time/space resolution of 1day/0.1 °; ii) analyze individual dry
episodes and their dynamics; iii) develop a drought typology based on dynamic characteristics
(e.g. genesis, intensification etc.); iv) evaluate the relationship between type of drought and
range of impacts; v) develop methods for examining trajectories of dry events and/or their
expansion/reduction, and vi) evaluate the relationship between atmospheric circulation and
drought types. DynamicDrought will examine drought as a series of distinctive events and
categorize them through their origin and dynamics across the World. Such comprehensive
approach will enhance our knowledge regarding the causes of droughts, their internal
dynamics, interrelationships and the accumulation of impacts.
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Central European HYDRoclimate from Oak stable isotopes over the past 8000 years – HYDRO8
Provider: Grantová agentura České republiky
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: archaeology; central Europe; climate reconstructions; dendroclimatology; drought; ecophysiology; Holocene; hydroclimate; oaks; paleoclimate; proxy archives; stable isotopes; tree rings
Annotation of project:
We propose to extend our recently published 2000-year-long Czech drought reconstruction by another six millennia back in time. To reconstruct hydroclimate over much of the Holocene, we will use advanced accelerated mass spectrometry to measure stable carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios (δ13C & δ18O) in precisely dated annual tree rings from more than 500 archaeological and subfossil oaks from the Czech Republic and southeastern Bavaria. Our new reconstruction will i) fill a spatiotemporal gap in the landscape of climate proxy archives, ii) contribute to a better understanding of central European drought variability during the past 8000 years, iii) play a role in resolving the so-called ‘Holocene Conundrum’, iv) help disentangling the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing factors, v) offer realistic targets and uncertainties for coupled climate and eco-physiological model simulations, and vi) provide an environmental benchmark for archaeological investigations into the Early Neolithic Revolution and many other periods of societal transformation thereafter.
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: archaeology; central Europe; climate reconstructions; dendroclimatology; drought; ecophysiology; Holocene; hydroclimate; oaks; paleoclimate; proxy archives; stable isotopes; tree rings
Annotation of project:
We propose to extend our recently published 2000-year-long Czech drought reconstruction by another six millennia back in time. To reconstruct hydroclimate over much of the Holocene, we will use advanced accelerated mass spectrometry to measure stable carbon and oxygen isotopic ratios (δ13C & δ18O) in precisely dated annual tree rings from more than 500 archaeological and subfossil oaks from the Czech Republic and southeastern Bavaria. Our new reconstruction will i) fill a spatiotemporal gap in the landscape of climate proxy archives, ii) contribute to a better understanding of central European drought variability during the past 8000 years, iii) play a role in resolving the so-called ‘Holocene Conundrum’, iv) help disentangling the relative contributions of natural and anthropogenic climate forcing factors, v) offer realistic targets and uncertainties for coupled climate and eco-physiological model simulations, and vi) provide an environmental benchmark for archaeological investigations into the Early Neolithic Revolution and many other periods of societal transformation thereafter.
Central European Alliance for Increasing Climate Change Resilience to Combined Consequences of Drought, Heatwave, and Fire Weather through Regionally-Tuned Forecasting - Clim4Cast
Provider: Interreg Central Europe
Recipient: Masarykova Univerzita
Recipient: Technische Universität Wien
Recipient: Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute
Recipient: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Recipient: Slovenian Environment Agency
Recipient: Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service
Recipient: Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: drought, heatwaves, fire weather
Annotation of project:
The frequency, duration, and severity of drought, heatwaves, and fire weather (DHF) in the Central European (CE) region is expected to increase as a result of ongoing climate change. Water scarcity and drought represent challenges that are often incorporated in legal frameworks of CE countries especially after recent series of droughts. However, heatwaves and fire weather have not yet been properly addressed in legislation documents and together with drought have often not been implemented into strategies and efforts aiming to increase resilience. The direct threat posed by DHF events to human wellbeing and environment urgently requires attention. That has been prevented partially due to an absence of tools that monitor, predict, and spread awareness of DHF on an operational basis. This leads to an unpreparedness to DHF events on regional, national, and crossborder levels. The Clim4Cast project will create a STEP-CHANGE (change much bigger than usual) as the project partners will jointly develop and establish a multi-temporal DHF forecast which will be integrated into existing national drought monitoring platforms of the 7 participating countries. The project will also estimate the effect of climate change on the occurrence and characteristics of DHF events. The results will be a base for a strategy to increase climate change and DHF awareness. A special action plan that sets up proper response mechanisms will be developed was well. The uniqueness of Clim4Cast lies firstly in sharing and jointly utilising existing partner knowledge of (1) extreme weather and climate events, (2) diverse strategies of communication, and (3) established networks of stakeholders and users of the newly-developed tool. Secondly, the project will develop and implement multi-temporal forecast that is currently missing in existing tools. The project output will serve as an early warning system that can be utilised by diverse stakeholders and implemented into national legislative frameworks.
Recipient: Masarykova Univerzita
Recipient: Technische Universität Wien
Recipient: Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation - State Research Institute
Recipient: Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research
Recipient: Slovenian Environment Agency
Recipient: Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service
Recipient: Slovak Hydrometeorological Institute
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: drought, heatwaves, fire weather
Annotation of project:
The frequency, duration, and severity of drought, heatwaves, and fire weather (DHF) in the Central European (CE) region is expected to increase as a result of ongoing climate change. Water scarcity and drought represent challenges that are often incorporated in legal frameworks of CE countries especially after recent series of droughts. However, heatwaves and fire weather have not yet been properly addressed in legislation documents and together with drought have often not been implemented into strategies and efforts aiming to increase resilience. The direct threat posed by DHF events to human wellbeing and environment urgently requires attention. That has been prevented partially due to an absence of tools that monitor, predict, and spread awareness of DHF on an operational basis. This leads to an unpreparedness to DHF events on regional, national, and crossborder levels. The Clim4Cast project will create a STEP-CHANGE (change much bigger than usual) as the project partners will jointly develop and establish a multi-temporal DHF forecast which will be integrated into existing national drought monitoring platforms of the 7 participating countries. The project will also estimate the effect of climate change on the occurrence and characteristics of DHF events. The results will be a base for a strategy to increase climate change and DHF awareness. A special action plan that sets up proper response mechanisms will be developed was well. The uniqueness of Clim4Cast lies firstly in sharing and jointly utilising existing partner knowledge of (1) extreme weather and climate events, (2) diverse strategies of communication, and (3) established networks of stakeholders and users of the newly-developed tool. Secondly, the project will develop and implement multi-temporal forecast that is currently missing in existing tools. The project output will serve as an early warning system that can be utilised by diverse stakeholders and implemented into national legislative frameworks.
PLUS Change - Planning Land Use Strategies: Meeting biodiversity, climate and social objectives in a Changing world.
Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Climatic research, Transformations; Systems Change; Behaviour Change; Governance; Land Use Modelling; Interventions; Planning and Policy
Annotation of project:
PLUS Change brings together 23 institutions from across Europe including 5 Universities, 5 research institutes, 3 stakeholder network organisations, 1 performing arts collective, and 9 practice partners representing regional planning and land management authorities and organisations. The objectives directly address the call with an aim to create land use strategies and decision-making processes that meet climate, biodiversity and human well-being objectives of sustainability, and to develop interventions that leverage political, economic, societal, material and cultural contexts to achieve these strategies, by involving actors at multiple decision-making levels (individual, land management, planning, policy). Activities include land use modelling (including historical and future trajectories of change), systems mapping, causal loop diagrams, performing arts approaches, randomized controlled trials of behaviour change, sociological surveys, and policy and governance reviews. All activities brought together in an integrated research design that draws on their different contributions to a holistic approach to understand multi-scale land use systems across a diversity of socioeconomic and biogeographical contexts, and create usable tools for land managers, users, planners and policy makers. The project is anchored in, and integrated through, 11 location-based cases for co-creation, and in a high-level multiplier cluster to identify challenges and impacts at EU and Global levels. Outputs include recommendations of co-designed and tested interventions to unlock behavioural, structural and procedural changes to achieve identified land use strategies; and a toolkit to support land use planners in enacting these interventions, including knowledge training, a planning dashboard and simulation tools, and methods for engaging citizens and land managers in behaviour change.
Coordinating recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Climatic research, Transformations; Systems Change; Behaviour Change; Governance; Land Use Modelling; Interventions; Planning and Policy
Annotation of project:
PLUS Change brings together 23 institutions from across Europe including 5 Universities, 5 research institutes, 3 stakeholder network organisations, 1 performing arts collective, and 9 practice partners representing regional planning and land management authorities and organisations. The objectives directly address the call with an aim to create land use strategies and decision-making processes that meet climate, biodiversity and human well-being objectives of sustainability, and to develop interventions that leverage political, economic, societal, material and cultural contexts to achieve these strategies, by involving actors at multiple decision-making levels (individual, land management, planning, policy). Activities include land use modelling (including historical and future trajectories of change), systems mapping, causal loop diagrams, performing arts approaches, randomized controlled trials of behaviour change, sociological surveys, and policy and governance reviews. All activities brought together in an integrated research design that draws on their different contributions to a holistic approach to understand multi-scale land use systems across a diversity of socioeconomic and biogeographical contexts, and create usable tools for land managers, users, planners and policy makers. The project is anchored in, and integrated through, 11 location-based cases for co-creation, and in a high-level multiplier cluster to identify challenges and impacts at EU and Global levels. Outputs include recommendations of co-designed and tested interventions to unlock behavioural, structural and procedural changes to achieve identified land use strategies; and a toolkit to support land use planners in enacting these interventions, including knowledge training, a planning dashboard and simulation tools, and methods for engaging citizens and land managers in behaviour change.
ACTRIS – participation of the Czech Republic
Provider: Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: ACTRIS, long-term air quality monitoring and research, atmospheric aerosols, global climate change
Annotation of project:
A goal of this project is development of the ACTRIS-CZ research infrastructure as a unique platform for research and monitoring of the background air quality in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. ACTRIS-CZ will contribute to essential improvement of knowledge level in problems of air quality and climate change. The RI represents a national node of the existing ACTRIS RI established within EU 7th Framework Programme INFRA-2010-1-1.1.16 and currently followed-up within ACTRIS-2 under Horizon 2020. Moreover, the ACTRIS RI has been selected on the ESFRI roadmap 2016. Essential is the coordination with the ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) activities. Actually, the Czech Republic is one of the first European countries where the ACTRIS and ICOS activities are coordinated at the same site. The RI is closely connected to capacities of the accredited laboratories of two partners (CHMI and RECETOX). The RI provides an access to the RI equipment. The user community is also entitled to an access to various data sets and products including standard operation procedures, calibration results, data protocols, and support to environmental policies. ACTRIS-CZ users include the individual researchers or students, organizations and institutions as well as general public. The development is planned both in line with the long-term goals of international ACTRIS and within the national consortium. A significant enhancement is planned in research of the surface-atmosphere exchanges of aerosols and associated chemicals. More attention will be paid to the monitoring and research on the aerosol optical properties having influence on the climate issues. The long-term development of aerosol measurements within 10 years will continue with on-line monitoring and chemical analysis of aerosol source tracers and precursors of secondary aerosols.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: ACTRIS, long-term air quality monitoring and research, atmospheric aerosols, global climate change
Annotation of project:
A goal of this project is development of the ACTRIS-CZ research infrastructure as a unique platform for research and monitoring of the background air quality in the Czech Republic and Central Europe. ACTRIS-CZ will contribute to essential improvement of knowledge level in problems of air quality and climate change. The RI represents a national node of the existing ACTRIS RI established within EU 7th Framework Programme INFRA-2010-1-1.1.16 and currently followed-up within ACTRIS-2 under Horizon 2020. Moreover, the ACTRIS RI has been selected on the ESFRI roadmap 2016. Essential is the coordination with the ICOS (Integrated Carbon Observation System) activities. Actually, the Czech Republic is one of the first European countries where the ACTRIS and ICOS activities are coordinated at the same site. The RI is closely connected to capacities of the accredited laboratories of two partners (CHMI and RECETOX). The RI provides an access to the RI equipment. The user community is also entitled to an access to various data sets and products including standard operation procedures, calibration results, data protocols, and support to environmental policies. ACTRIS-CZ users include the individual researchers or students, organizations and institutions as well as general public. The development is planned both in line with the long-term goals of international ACTRIS and within the national consortium. A significant enhancement is planned in research of the surface-atmosphere exchanges of aerosols and associated chemicals. More attention will be paid to the monitoring and research on the aerosol optical properties having influence on the climate issues. The long-term development of aerosol measurements within 10 years will continue with on-line monitoring and chemical analysis of aerosol source tracers and precursors of secondary aerosols.
Czech Carbon Observation System
Provider: Ministerstvo školství mládeže a tělovýchovy
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: climate change and modelling; ecological physiology and metabolomics; green house gases; remote sensing
Annotation of project:
The main goal of the research infrastructure (RI) CzeCOS is to enable open access to the entire scientific community, to provide research services to external users, and to facilitate knowledge transfer (training and education of students, PhD students, postdocs, researchers and other experts) in the field of long-term sophisticated research on global change (GC) impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in the Czech Republic (CZ) and Central Europe. Particular aims are (1) to form a national complement to the existing ESFRI infrastructures ICOS, AnaEE, and EUFAR, (2) to provide unique facilities for (i) long-term impact studies on effects of environmental factors on plants/ecosystems, (ii) operation of atmospheric and ecosystem stations for observational research and quantification of greenhouse gas fluxes, (iii) physiological research, (iv) metabolomic and isotope investigation and (v) flying laboratory of process imaging; (3) to significantly contribute to the global network of GC research; (4) to represent a unique platform for a broad national and international interdisciplinary collaboration. RI comprises a unique set of facilities for the research of GC impacts on ecosystems, study of adaptation mechanisms and the development of mitigation measures. Expected innovations are prediction of future stability of different ecosystems, identification of potential risks and producing the adaptation measures, identification of crop cultivars with increased tolerance to stressors, preparation of vegetation indices and thematic maps applicable in landscape planning, etc. The aim of the RI is fully in compliance with the National priorities for oriented research, experimental development and innovations (R&D&I) determined as a certain and concrete object of the state and public interest, which combines a long-term goals and multi-field focus, is applicable in the whole society and desirable (a climatic change is specified explicitly as a priority area).
Recipient: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: climate change and modelling; ecological physiology and metabolomics; green house gases; remote sensing
Annotation of project:
The main goal of the research infrastructure (RI) CzeCOS is to enable open access to the entire scientific community, to provide research services to external users, and to facilitate knowledge transfer (training and education of students, PhD students, postdocs, researchers and other experts) in the field of long-term sophisticated research on global change (GC) impacts on terrestrial ecosystems in the Czech Republic (CZ) and Central Europe. Particular aims are (1) to form a national complement to the existing ESFRI infrastructures ICOS, AnaEE, and EUFAR, (2) to provide unique facilities for (i) long-term impact studies on effects of environmental factors on plants/ecosystems, (ii) operation of atmospheric and ecosystem stations for observational research and quantification of greenhouse gas fluxes, (iii) physiological research, (iv) metabolomic and isotope investigation and (v) flying laboratory of process imaging; (3) to significantly contribute to the global network of GC research; (4) to represent a unique platform for a broad national and international interdisciplinary collaboration. RI comprises a unique set of facilities for the research of GC impacts on ecosystems, study of adaptation mechanisms and the development of mitigation measures. Expected innovations are prediction of future stability of different ecosystems, identification of potential risks and producing the adaptation measures, identification of crop cultivars with increased tolerance to stressors, preparation of vegetation indices and thematic maps applicable in landscape planning, etc. The aim of the RI is fully in compliance with the National priorities for oriented research, experimental development and innovations (R&D&I) determined as a certain and concrete object of the state and public interest, which combines a long-term goals and multi-field focus, is applicable in the whole society and desirable (a climatic change is specified explicitly as a priority area).
NCE II
Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
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Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
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Biorefining and circular economy for sustainability
Provider: Technologická agentura ČR
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Waste utilization; Circular economy; Biomass energy processing; Sustainable use of resources; Environmentally friendly technologies; Sustainable energy; Bioplastics, Bioactive substances; Reuse of discarded solar panels, Agriculture reclamation of dumps
Annotation of project:
The goals are new products from renewable sources related to the Circular Economy employed environmentally friendly technologies addressing individual elements of EGD concerning current social and environmental issues. The effective utilization of waste originated in agriculture, animal production or forestry, various discarded constructions, electrical facilities and plastic materials to obtain biostimulants from green hydrolyzate from animal wastes, agriculture reclamation of dumps by mixed biochar with biostimulants for fast-growing trees, new biopesticides for chemical pesticides replacement; catalysts for synthesis of petrochemicals from ethanol based on lignocellulosic materials, oil products from the complete recycling of plastics, green energy by reuse of discarded solar panels.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Waste utilization; Circular economy; Biomass energy processing; Sustainable use of resources; Environmentally friendly technologies; Sustainable energy; Bioplastics, Bioactive substances; Reuse of discarded solar panels, Agriculture reclamation of dumps
Annotation of project:
The goals are new products from renewable sources related to the Circular Economy employed environmentally friendly technologies addressing individual elements of EGD concerning current social and environmental issues. The effective utilization of waste originated in agriculture, animal production or forestry, various discarded constructions, electrical facilities and plastic materials to obtain biostimulants from green hydrolyzate from animal wastes, agriculture reclamation of dumps by mixed biochar with biostimulants for fast-growing trees, new biopesticides for chemical pesticides replacement; catalysts for synthesis of petrochemicals from ethanol based on lignocellulosic materials, oil products from the complete recycling of plastics, green energy by reuse of discarded solar panels.
Building a European Network for the Characterisation and Harmonisation of Monitoring Approaches for Research and Knowledge on Soils
Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Soil health; European benchmark indicator framework; forestry, urban and agricultural land-use systems; sample, space and statistical measurements; local, landscape, regional and European scale.
Annotation of project:
Soil health is crucial for challenges related to climate, environment and society. As such, this Soil Health and Food Mission proposal directly links in to the other HE missions, as well as to the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategies. Both public and private sectors are proposing a sustainable vision, that depends on a reliable assessment of the effects of management and policy innovations on soil health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to ensure that the EU sets the benchmark of a reliable cost-effective framework for measuring soil health. In alignment with existing initiatives such as EU Soil Observatory, EJP Soil and the LUCAS Topsoil survey, and using open science approaches, the BENCHMARKS consortium will co-design an Integrated Soil Health Monitoring Framework. This framework will build upon the assessment of soil-based ecosystem functions to co-develop an interactive soil health dashboard for (1) the selection of appropriate soil health indicators, (2) soil health assessment and indexation, and (3) recommendation of management practices to support soil health. The dashboard will be suitable at local, landscape, regional and European scales for a variety of stakeholders in urban, agricultural and forestry land use systems. BENCHMARKS indicators will be relevant to the stakeholder’s objectives, applicable to the different land use systems and pedo-climatic zone and appropriate in terms of logistical, financial and sensitivity requirements. To inform on the appropriate spatial resolution of indicators, the Soil Health Mission and BENCHMARKS proposed indicators (samplebased measurements, stats (data and model derived measurements), space (earth observation techniques)) and citizen science observations will be tested in 24 Living Labs across Europe. Finally, BENCHMARKS will support policy development and value-chain innovation through increased evidence on the links between soil health, functions and ecosystem services.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: Soil health; European benchmark indicator framework; forestry, urban and agricultural land-use systems; sample, space and statistical measurements; local, landscape, regional and European scale.
Annotation of project:
Soil health is crucial for challenges related to climate, environment and society. As such, this Soil Health and Food Mission proposal directly links in to the other HE missions, as well as to the European Green Deal and Farm to Fork strategies. Both public and private sectors are proposing a sustainable vision, that depends on a reliable assessment of the effects of management and policy innovations on soil health. Therefore, there is an urgent need to ensure that the EU sets the benchmark of a reliable cost-effective framework for measuring soil health. In alignment with existing initiatives such as EU Soil Observatory, EJP Soil and the LUCAS Topsoil survey, and using open science approaches, the BENCHMARKS consortium will co-design an Integrated Soil Health Monitoring Framework. This framework will build upon the assessment of soil-based ecosystem functions to co-develop an interactive soil health dashboard for (1) the selection of appropriate soil health indicators, (2) soil health assessment and indexation, and (3) recommendation of management practices to support soil health. The dashboard will be suitable at local, landscape, regional and European scales for a variety of stakeholders in urban, agricultural and forestry land use systems. BENCHMARKS indicators will be relevant to the stakeholder’s objectives, applicable to the different land use systems and pedo-climatic zone and appropriate in terms of logistical, financial and sensitivity requirements. To inform on the appropriate spatial resolution of indicators, the Soil Health Mission and BENCHMARKS proposed indicators (samplebased measurements, stats (data and model derived measurements), space (earth observation techniques)) and citizen science observations will be tested in 24 Living Labs across Europe. Finally, BENCHMARKS will support policy development and value-chain innovation through increased evidence on the links between soil health, functions and ecosystem services.
DANUBIUS Implementation Phase Project - DANUBIUS-IP
Provider: HORIZON EUROPE
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
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DANUBIUS-IP is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action to support the ongoing development of DANUBIUS-RI – an environmental research infrastructure linking rivers and seas – as it proceeds towards its Operational Phase. The project proposes 7 work packages, in two parallel workstreams, that together will: • deliver a new governance structure for the RI as it transitions to DANUBIUS-ERIC; • enhance the ICT potential of the RI to enable virtual delivery of key services; • implement the Science and Innovation Agenda supported by agile and quality assured scientific services; • demonstrate the value of the RI through examples of the unique services that the RI can offer to end-users across Europe and internationally; • expand the DANUBIUS-RI community and enhance its standing in the wider European and International environmental RI landscape; and • ensure that the potential of DANUBIUS-RI to have significant social and economic impact is widely communicated. DANUBIUS-IP is coordinated by GeoEcoMar (Romania) and brings together 25 experienced partners from 14 countries from across Europe in a consortium with complimentary areas of multi-disciplinary expertise across the freshwater and marine research fields. The project specifically seeks to address recommendations from the recent ESFRI and High-Level Expert Group reports (on DANUBIUS-RI) and make a significant contribution to the expected outcomes and wider impacts of the Horizon Europe Programme. As such the project considers the importance of sustainability of financial commitments, the need to test the funding model and to enhance the visibility of the RI. DANUBIUS-IP will further demonstrate the efficacy of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach embracing a 'river-sea continuum' perspective to fill current gaps in the Research and Innovation landscape to address key societal challenges in these environments impacted by anthropogenic pressures and climate change.
Another participant in the project: Ústav výzkumu globální změny AV ČR, v. v. i.
Keywords: xxx
Annotation of project:
DANUBIUS-IP is a 36-month Coordination and Support Action to support the ongoing development of DANUBIUS-RI – an environmental research infrastructure linking rivers and seas – as it proceeds towards its Operational Phase. The project proposes 7 work packages, in two parallel workstreams, that together will: • deliver a new governance structure for the RI as it transitions to DANUBIUS-ERIC; • enhance the ICT potential of the RI to enable virtual delivery of key services; • implement the Science and Innovation Agenda supported by agile and quality assured scientific services; • demonstrate the value of the RI through examples of the unique services that the RI can offer to end-users across Europe and internationally; • expand the DANUBIUS-RI community and enhance its standing in the wider European and International environmental RI landscape; and • ensure that the potential of DANUBIUS-RI to have significant social and economic impact is widely communicated. DANUBIUS-IP is coordinated by GeoEcoMar (Romania) and brings together 25 experienced partners from 14 countries from across Europe in a consortium with complimentary areas of multi-disciplinary expertise across the freshwater and marine research fields. The project specifically seeks to address recommendations from the recent ESFRI and High-Level Expert Group reports (on DANUBIUS-RI) and make a significant contribution to the expected outcomes and wider impacts of the Horizon Europe Programme. As such the project considers the importance of sustainability of financial commitments, the need to test the funding model and to enhance the visibility of the RI. DANUBIUS-IP will further demonstrate the efficacy of an integrated and interdisciplinary approach embracing a 'river-sea continuum' perspective to fill current gaps in the Research and Innovation landscape to address key societal challenges in these environments impacted by anthropogenic pressures and climate change.
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The Clim4Cast forecasting tool was presented at the EGU General Assembly 2026 in Vienna by Lukáš Dolák. The original contribution was also chosen to be presented at a press conference for journalists, along with 17 other contributions out of a total of 20,000. Within the Press conference (https://www.egu.eu/gamedia/2026/press-conferences/#PC1), the most outstanding Clim4Cast outputs were introduced, including the forecasting tool. The attending journalists appreciated both the web platform and the tool. We honestly hope that this event contributed to spreading the word not only among journalists but also to the wider public and researchers.
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The expert jury of the Czech Cartographic Society has announced the results of the prestigious Map of the Year 2025 competition across six categories. The Clim4Cast project team, from the Global Change Research Institute CAS and Masaryk University, also participated. In the category Digital Cartographic Products and Online Applications, the team received an award among 14 competing entries for the Clim4Cast map portal – drought, heatwaves, wildfires.
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3 May 1943 – 1 February 2026
With deep sorrow, we announce that on 1 February 2026, Sune Linder, Emeritus Professor at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala and at the Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre in Alnarp (Sweden), passed away.
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ICOS Science Conference, organised every second year by the ICOS community, is a global event open to scientists and other experts working in greenhouse gases and biogeochemical cycles. ICOS Science Conference 2026 will be organised on 15-17 September 2026 in Lund, Sweden and online. The themes reflect ICOS’s three domains – Atmosphere, Ecosystem and Ocean – and incorporate broader themes such as climate services, science communication and cooperation between Research Infrastructures.
The abstract submission deadline is 6th March 2026, 15:00 CET. More here
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We are excited to announce that registration is now open for the 2nd International AnaEE Science Conference (ANAEESC26), the flagship biennial event of AnaEE-ERIC (Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems), Europe’s largest network for experimental ecology and climate change research. Taking place September 29 – October 1, 2026, at the Palais de l’Europe in Menton, France, this essential gathering brings together leading researchers and policymakers to address critical challenges facing global ecosystems through seven scientific sessions, featuring distinguished keynote speakers including Prof. Marie-Hélène Jeuffroy – INRAE, Prof. Bart Muys – KU Leuven and Dr. Nathalie Hilmi – The Scientific Centre of Monaco.
We strongly encourage you to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. Early career researchers can compete for our inaugural Environmental Rising Star Award, which includes up to €2000 for a research visit to an AnaEE facility abroad. The conference also features workshops on Open Science practices, policy dialogues, and valuable networking opportunities. Visit anaee.eu to register and submit your abstract.
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