ETC-CCA – European Topic Centre on: Climate Change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation 2011-2013
The ETC/CCA is a center of thematic expertise contracted by the EEA to carry out specific tasks identified in the EEA strategy in the area of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation across Europe.
ETC-ICM – European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters
The intention of the project is to establish a seamless environmental information system to assist the Commission and EEA member countries in their attempts to improve the environment, move towards sustainability and integrate environmental policies with other sectors such as economic, social, transport, industry, energy and agriculture.
ETC-ICM – European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters
The European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM) is an international consortium brought together to support the European Environment Agency (EEA) in its mission to deliver timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information to policy-makers and the public for the development and implementation of sound environmental policies in the European Union and other EEA member countries.
ETC/CCA – European Topic Centre on Climate Change impacts, vulnerability and Adaptation
The ETC/CCA is a Consortium of European Organizations contracted by the European Environment Agency (EEA) to carry out specific tasks consistently with the EEA 2014-2018 five-year strategy and Multiannual Work Programme and the specific EEA Annual Work Programmes in the area of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (CCIVA) across Europe.
ETC/CCA – European Topic Centre on Climate Change impacts, vulnerability and Adaptation (2019-2021)
The ETC/CCA is a Consortium of European institutions that supply thematic expertise to the European Environment Agency (EEA) working at the interface between science and policy, in support to policy development and implementation in the area of climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation across Europe.
EU CISE 2020 – EUropean test bed for the maritime Common Information Sharing Environment in the 2020 perspective
EU CISE 2020 is a Security Research project of the European Seventh Framework Program; it aims at achieving the pre-operational Information Sharing between the maritime authorities of the European States.
EUBrazilCC – EUBrazil Cloud Connect
The objective of this project is to drive cooperation between Europe and Brazil by strengthening the scientific and knowledge-based society as key to sustainable and equitable socioeconomic development.
EUCP – European Climate Prediction system
The project aims to develop an innovative European climate prediction system for the European climate forecasting system (EUCP)
EUCRA – The European Climate Risk Assessment
This contract will aim at carrying out the European Climate Risk Assessment (EUCRA). EUCRA will address the climate risks in Europe and will establish a European baseline of climate risks on which countries can build on their national assessments.
EuroSea – Improving and integrating the European Ocean Observing and Forecasting Systems
Although the Ocean is a fundamental part of the global system providing a wealth of resources, there are fundamental gaps in ocean observing and forecasting system, limiting our capacity in Europe to sustainably manage the ocean and its resources. EuroSea works to improve the European ocean observing and forecasting system in a global context, delivering ocean observations and forecasts to advance scientific knowledge about ocean climate, marine ecosystems and their vulnerability to human impacts and to demonstrate the importance of the ocean to an economically viable and healthy society. The EuroSea vision is to advance research and innovation towards a user-focused, truly interdisciplinary, and responsive European ocean observing and forecasting system, that delivers the essential information needed for human wellbeing and safety, sustainable development and blue economy in a changing world. The EuroSea mission is co-designing European ocean observing and forecasting services and products that deliver information and support decision-making in the areas of climate, coastal and maritime activities, and ocean health.
EXDCI-2 – European eXtreme Data and Computing Initiative – 2
The project EXDCI-2 builds upon the success of EXDCI and will continue the coordination of the HPC ecosystem with important enhancements to better address the convergence of big data, cloud and HPC.
FEAMP – Ecosystem approach to support the protection and management of Natura 2000 sites in heavily anthropized areas
Previous data and in-situ data will be collected within specific sampling campaigns and with the use of the monitoring stations of the C-CEMS observation system and particular numerical models, will be analyzed the physical environment and the variation over time of the state of health of the P. oceanica, thus quantifying the economic value of the P. oceanica meadows present in the two SCIs and the entity and effect of the different stressors.
FEVERSEA – Framework for marine heat waves EVEnts integrating Remote SEnsing and numericAl simulations
The Agency has an interest in supporting young scientists in ESA Member States, covering leading edge research activities contributing to the achievement of the CCI (Climate Change Initiative) Programme by maximising the use of ESA data and EO assets. With this Partnership Agreement referred as “the Post-doctoral Scholar”, the CMCC has undertaken to carry out research work regarding FEVERSEA: Framework for marine heat waves (MHWs) EVEnts integrating Remote SEnsing and numericAl simulations. “Marine Heat Waves (MHWs) induce significant impacts on marine ecosystems. There is a growing need for knowledge about extreme climate events to better inform decision-makers on future climate-related risks. MHWs research is still in its infancy: the extreme temperature anomalies are usually examined individually in terms of their definition, physical and climate drivers and ecological impacts, and the prediction of these extreme events is very challenging. In this context, FEVERSEA aims to provide a global assessment of MHWs under a consistent framework by combining data sets generated within the ESA SST_CCI, SSS_CCI, SeaLevel_CCI and OceanColour_CCI activities, European EO datasets (e.g. GLOBCURRENT, ERS1-2, ASCAT), non-European EO datasets (QUIKSCAT) and model simulations (ocean reanalyses, atmospheric reanalyses and CIMP6 coupled models). The main goals of FEVERSEA project are: 1) to study and to document MHWs extreme events: surface and sub-surface observed characteristics and ecological impacts, 2) to detect the local and large-scale climate precursors and 3) to exploit the potential of novel deep machine learning method in a prediction framework.”
fish RISE – Remote Intelligent Sustainable aquaculturE system for Fish
The sector of aquaculture has been recording constant growth trends at global level triggered by the progressive increase in world population and the resulting growing demand for food. The consumption of fish products has grown by 27% over the last ten years, and FAO estimates that aquaculture will meet 62% of global food demand in 2030. fish RISE project aims to develop innovative systems allowing fish farmers to increase productivity, through the design and implementation of a wide methodology and technology framework for land-based and offshore aquaculture, to be sustainable both economically and, above all, environmentally.
FIUMICINO Project: Morphodynamic and Sediment Transport, Hydrodynamic, and Ecological Characterization of the Physiographic Unit from Capo Linaro to Capo d’Anzio
The project fits into a broad system of observation, monitoring, and analysis of the marine environment that addresses the need to harmonize the protection of marine ecosystems with the proper management and development of coastal area uses. The response of natural systems to variations generated by specific coastal interventions overlaps with the variations induced by climate trends and territorial changes (land use, riverbed interventions, industries) occurring in the relevant basins, generating an overlap of effects that modulate the evolution of the receiving sea area and coasts on different spatial and temporal scales. The study area is dominated by the presence of the Tiber River, which, being the main watercourse of central Italy, significantly influences the sediment balance in the area and the distribution of biocoenoses. The same area will be affected by a series of activities related to the construction of new port infrastructures. To analyze such a complex system and to separate as accurately as possible the variations induced by a project from the evolution of the system itself, it is therefore essential to know the physical and dynamic characteristics of the study area and the current environmental state, through an in-depth analysis of the main impacts and pressures affecting the entire area and its habitats. This project aims to study the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of the area between Capo Linaro and Capo d’Anzio through a multidisciplinary study that involves the integration of observational data and numerical modeling and to support the development of the works and
FOCCUS – Forecasting and observing the open-to-coastal ocean for Copernicus users
FOCCUS enhances CMEMS (Copernicus Marine Environment Monitoring Service), for effective uptakes from the EU Member states to ensure a more sustainable Blue Economy and coastal resilience to climate change
FRAMESPORT – Framework initiative fostering the sustainable development of Adriatic small ports
FRAMESPORT project will perform a coordinated initiative supporting an integrated and sustainable development of small ports in a strategic perspective, thus allowing them to be pro-active socio-economic drivers of the development in the Adriatic coasts. Such a strategic objective calls for a multifaceted approach, including both the adoption of concrete pilot actions as well as identification of priority themes to be promoted within the overall strategy. Priorities will be individuated by means of a bottom-up approach, involving local and national stakeholders since the project inception phase. Partners, which has been chosen in order to guarantee a wide territorial approach, will address planning and management topics, business models implementation, enhancement of training and competence, as well as develop ICT tools and services, thus supporting an effective development of small ports in the whole ITHR area. Furthermore, a tailor-made ICT platform will collect and systematize relevant key data on small ports to be shared as starting point of any further development. FRAMESPORT will build on existing knowledge and capitalize results of pilot initiatives by integrating them in a new strategic framework boosting small-scale maritime nodes performances along the Adriatic coasts.
Frontex – Oceanographic Data and Visualisation
Frontex is operating in a very dynamic operational environment conducting monitoring and surveillance missions to accomplishing her multi-responsibilities such as detecting illegal migration and cross border crime activities as well as carrying out risk analysis. This offer will provide the requested service of ocean data delivery and visualisation to Frontex as foreseen in Lot 2 – Oceanographic Data and Visualisation of the tender Frontex/OP/234/2021/RS.
FUME – Forest fires under climate, social and economic changes in Europe, the Mediterranean and other fire-affected areas of the world
A project that aims at documenting and evaluating which changes in the land or in other factors occurred in the last decades that affected forest fires in Europe and other fire-affected areas of the world to foresee future risks and impacts on the vegetation and landscapes, and on fire regimes.
FUTURA: Future of Climate Change Scenarios of the Earth System, Impacts and Socio-Economic Outcomes for Assessment and AND Society
For the first time, all major European modelling and infrastructure efforts are coordinated within a dedicated project to develop and deploy a sustainable and unified system for delivering future emissions and land-use scenarios, and climate and impact projections. This system is referred to hereafter as the’climate pathways system’. It is designed to support climate research, international assessments, and climate policy for the coming decades. FUTURA explores how to design a new cyclical scenario generation protocol built from process-resolving models complemented by emulator and AI approaches. It shifts from causal-chain modelling workflows to a unified system that unifies multi-annual process-driven iterations complemented by the ability to run fast annual iterations. We address how to best align this system with policy timeframes, and how to effectively leverage the model and data multiverse to advance understanding while supporting researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. The FUTURA climate pathways system represents a significant step towards the sustained and responsive delivery of climate projections in support of climate assessment and policy.
FutureMARES – Climate Change and Future Marine Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity
FutureMARES provides socially and economically viable nature-based solutions (NBS) for climate change (CC) adaptation and mitigation to safeguard these ecosystems’ natural capital, biodiversity and services. The program advances understanding of the links between species and community traits, ecological functions and ecosystem services as impacted by CC by analysing the best available data from monitoring programs and conducting targeted experiments and beyond state-of-the-art modelling. Ensemble physical-biogeochemical projections will identify CC hotspots and refugia. Shifts in the distribution and productivity of keystone, structural and endangered species and the consequences for biodiversity will be projected within different CC-NBS scenarios to reveal potential ecological benefits, feedbacks and trade-offs. Novel, social-ecological vulnerability assessments will rank the severity of CC impacts on various ecosystem services and dependent human communities. Complementary analyses at real- world demonstration sites will inform managers and policy-makers on the economic costs and tradeoffs of NBS.
GEOCARBON – Operational Global Carbon Observing System
The main objective of this project is to coordinate the contribution of European and international leading research institutes toward the development of an Operational Global Integrated Carbon Observation and Analysis System.
Global Physical Reanalysis Lot 2
The Monitoring and Forecasting Centre for the global Ocean (GLO MFC), coordinated by Mercator Ocean International is part of the seven Monitoring and Forecasting Centres (MFCs), and generates model-based products, providing operational analysis and forecasts together with long-term physical and biogeochemical Reanalyses covering the satellite altimetry era. The Reanalysis component shall produce an ensemble of Reanalyses generated by state-of-the-art ocean modeling and data assimilation components, extensively validated, and disseminated at high temporal and spatial resolutions. These global ocean Reanalysis products will be compiled in order to quantify the state of the ocean and its uncertainty using an ensemble approach.
GLORAN – COPERNICUS MARINE – PRODUCTION PROVISION AND ANALYSIS OF REANALYSIS PRODUCTS FOR THE GLOBAL OCEAN
This is a supply of oceanic reanalysis products that will be integrated into the Copernicus marine service. The service will provide at different times and on a monthly basis, physical (ocean and sea ice) and biological (micronekton) model products for the global ocean. The quality of these reanalyses will be analyzed and the relative performances compared in the context of the developing indicators of ocean variability.