Project description
A platform for European polar research actions
Climate change has a dramatic impact on the polar regions, affecting the lives of residents and representing a threat to the atmosphere, ocean and weather. The EU puts increasing importance on scientific research and innovation in the high latitudes and is one of the key investors in polar research. As such, further coordination of polar research actions in Europe to support decision-making and address societal challenges is increasingly needed. The EU-funded project EU-PolarNet 2 will establish a coordination platform creating a network and developing instruments of coordination and co-design of strategies of European polar research actions. The project will operate this platform for 4 years and will contribute to the policymaking process.
Objective
With communities and ecosystems subject to multiple environmental, climatic, cultural and economic stresses, the Polar Regions truly represent the sentinel of climate change. Already now, changes in the Polar Regions are changing the lives of polar residents, and are affecting the well-being of many polar communities. Furthermore, the state of the Polar systems has far reaching effects on atmosphere, ocean and land including the change of weather pattern in Europe. Polar issues have been therefore rising up the political agenda across Europe over the past decade and the European Union and its executive body, the EC, attribute an increasing importance to science and innovation in the high latitudes and are major investors in Polar research. There is therefore an increasing need to further develop the coordination of Polar research actions in Europe to give evidence-based advice to decision makers. This must include a continued involvement of all relevant stake- and right holders to develop transdisciplinary and transnational projects to tackle societally relevant problems connected to the Polar Regions.
EU-PolarNet 2 will provide a coordination platform to co-develop strategies to advance the European Polar Research action and its contribution to the policy-making processes. It will operate as such a platform for the 4-years of the project´s lifetime. Once EU-PolarNet 2 ends, the gained experience, the established network and the developed tools to facilitate better coordination and co-design of Polar research actions will be transferred to the European Polar Coordination Office to be sustained.
The EU-PolarNet 2 consortium consist of 25 partners representing all European and associated countries with Polar research programmes and activities. This allows EU-PolarNet 2 to significantly improve the coordination and co-design of European Polar research actions but also to provide evidence-based advice on behalf of the whole European Polar community.
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CSA - Coordination and support actionCoordinator
27570 Bremerhaven
Germany
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Participants (26)
28046 Madrid
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90014 Oulu
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00185 Roma
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0283 Oslo
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2593 CE Den Haag
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2593 CE Den Haag
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2100 KOBENHAVN
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75794 Paris
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40-007 KATOWICE
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1504 Sofia
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1010 Wien
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12616 Tallinn
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92210 Saint Cloud
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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1000 Bruxelles / Brussel
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9296 Tromso
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1600 276 Lisboa
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971 87 Lulea
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SN2 1FL Swindon
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34469 Maslak, Istanbul
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370 05 Ceske Budejovice
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105 Reykjavik
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FO110 TORSHAVN
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9521 Kautokeino
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1015 Lausanne
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1950 SION
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