2023

ACTRIS is a pan-European research infrastructure producing high-quality data and information on short-lived atmospheric constituents and on the processes leading to the variability of these constituents in natural and controlled atmospheres. ACTRIS serves a vast community of users in answering to many societal and environmental challenges, such as air quality, health, sustainability and climate change.

The ambition of ATMO-ACCESS is to address the needs for developing sustainable solutions based on the principles of open access and to develop recommendations for management and funding for efficient and effective access provision suited to distributed atmospheric RIs.

Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union’s space programme. The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has been appointed by the European Commission with funding from the EU to operate the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service and the Copernicus Climate Change Service on its behalf. Institute of Methodologies for Environmental Analysis (IMAA) of the National Research Council (CNR) has been contracted by ECMWF to implement the C3S2 311 Lot2 “Comprehensive Upper-Air, Baseline and Reference in situ observations”, which valorises the effort spent in Cop1 within the C3S 311a Lot3 (“Access to observations from baseline and reference networks”) and C3S 311c Lot2 (“Historic In Situ Upper Air Database”) contracts.

The project is a pilot for the implementation of provision in NRT of profiles processed in a centralized, traceable way and with data quality control (Level2 -6months delay).

A support action for national and regional authorities to advance their governance structures and strengthen dedicated support for cities to achieve the climate-neutral Cities Mission. CapaCITIES coordinates actions across climate neutral city initiatives in Europe in order to exploit synergies between them and align efforts towards the goals of the mission including city networks, the UAEU partnerships, the CoR, and others.

Sand and dust storms (SDS) are an important threat to health, environment and economy in many countries. DustClim project makes a major step forward in the way SDS affects society by producing an advanced dust regional model reanalysis for Northern Africa, Middle East and Europe and by developing dust-related services tailored to specific socio-economic sectors.

e-shape is a unique initiative that brings together decades of public investment in EO; empowering services for decision-makers, citizens industry, and researchers. 27 cloud-based pilot applications under 7 thematic areas address societal challenges, foster entrepreneurship and support sustainable development.

With the signing of the UNEP Minamata Convention in 2013 and its ratification in 2017, the world’s governments have accepted that mercury (Hg) is toxic and of global relevance; scientific needs will therefore shift towards best implementation practices of the Convention.

I-Seed aims at developing a new generation of self-deployable and biodegradable soft robots, inspired by the morphology and dispersion abilities of plant seeds, to perform low-cost, environmentally responsible, in-situ detection of key environmental parameters in air and topsoil.