Tiago Capela Lourenço Foundation Faculty of Sciences - University of Lisbon

1. Tiago Capela Lourenço Foundation Faculty of Sciences - University of Lisbon tcapela@siam.fis.fc.ul.pt

2. Background • Role • Structure • Interactions EEA/EIONET/Clearinghouse

3. Background Quick facts: EU FP7 ERA-Net Coordination & Support Action May 2010 - April 2014 ≈ 2 MEuros 20 Partners + 14 Contributing Partners Coordination: FFCUL - Portugal PO: Wolfram Schrimpf (DG RTD - I5)

4. :the Partners 1. FFCUL (coordinator): Foundation of the Faculty of Sciences of Lisbon University, Portugal 2. EAA: Environment Agency Austria, Austria 3. FCT: Foundation for Science and Technology, Portugal 4. CMCC: Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change, Italy 5. MEEDDM: Ministry of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and Sea, France 6. MICINN: Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spain 7. SMHI: Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden 8. KvK: Knowledge for Climate Research Programme, the Netherlands 9. AKA: The Academy of Finland, Finland 10. SEPA: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, Sweden 11. EPA-I: Irish Environmental Protection Agency, Ireland 12. PT-DLR: German Aerospace Center - Project Management Agency, Dep. "Environment, Culture, Sustainability", Germany 13. MKF: Mariolopoulos-Kanaginis Foundation for the Environmental Sciences, Greece 14. FORMAS, The Swedish Research Council for Environment, Agricultural Sciences and Spatial Planning, Sweden 15. MEW: Ministry of Environment and Water, Hungary 16: TÜBITAK: Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, Turkey 17. ETF: Estonian Science Foundation, Estonia 18. IME: Israel Ministry of Environmental Protection, Israel 19. EVFH: Public Agency Flanders Hydraulics, Belgium (Flanders) 20. DEFRA: Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom

5. :the Contributing Partners i. IHOBE: Basque Environmental Performance Agency - Ministry of Environment and Land Planning - Government of the Basque Country, Spain (Basque Country) ii. BMWF: Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research, Austria iii. BELSPO: Belgian Federal Science Policy Office, Belgium iv. IMELS: Italian Ministry for the Environment and Land and Sea, Italy v. FOEN: Federal Office for the Environment, Switzerland vi. LZA: Latvian Academy of Sciences, Latvia vii. METEO-Ro: Ministry of Environment - National Meteorological Administration - Climatic Research Group, Romania viii. BMBF: Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Germany ix. EA: Environment Agency, United Kingdom x. NIMH-BAS: National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria xi. RCN: Research Council of Norway, Norway xii. AU-KFT: Coordination Unit for Research in Climate Change Adaptation, Aarhus University, Denmark Xiii. XUNTA: Directorate General for Research, Development and Innovation - Galician Ministry of Innovation and Industry - Galician Government, Spain (Galicia) xiv. UBA-D: The Federal Environment Agency (Umweltbundesamt), Germany

6. :the Vision • Coordinate European CCIVA research funding at the transnational scale • Facilitate the transfer of research outcomes • Share experiences and lessons learnt on • CCIVA research funding/management • Development of national/regional Adaptation practices • Encourage international cooperation with non-European countries

7. :the Objectives • Establish a research funding network that fosters responses to policy-relevant CCIVA questions • Facilitate cooperation across European CCIVA research programmes and institutions • Promote the alignment of national and regional CCIVA agendas under common strategic research and policy areas • Fund joint initiatives and joint calls on CCIVA research • Share knowledge in support to the EC and our members

8. WORK PACKAGE 2 :the Structure WORK PACKAGE 1 WORK PACKAGE 3 WORK PACKAGE 4

9. :the Site Under construction

10. CIRCLE-2 “Information System” Users: All end-users. Rights and Permissions: Read-only rights: navigation/access to all information available in the public site. No input of information. Mailing registration. Users: Administrators of the CIRCLE-2 ”Information System”. Rights and Permissions: Full rights on all pages of the public access area Management of E-Newsletter. Users: Administrators; CIRCLE-2 Members. Rights and Permissions: Upload, Delete and Download of Documents.

11. DESIGN

12. Contents: Name / Country Acronym / Abstract Partners / Contacts Budget / Duration Keywords / Results…. :the INFOBASE Partners National / Regional Programme / Project FACTSHEET Contributing Partners C2 INFOBASE Compilation Reports EU Clearinghouse

13. :the Factsheets C2 Projects MED (prepared by Marie Mojaisky for MundiaMediterra)

15. FUND

16. www.circle-med.net • Sub-groups (MED, NORDic, MOUNTain) • New agenda(s) on Adaptation (Deltas, Urban, Atlantic, Developing countries,…) • Calls on topical or geographical approaches

17. SHARE

18. 1st priority – November 2010 2nd priority – cosponsoring IS-ENES workshop :the Workshop Series Topics andpriorities: • Barriers and opportunities for coordination of climate adaptation activities between and within different administrative levels (multilevel governance and policy integration and coherence) • Synergies and trade-offs between adaptation and mitigation • Synthesis from thematic regional/topical/sectoral CIRCLE-2 joint calls • Managing and communicating uncertainties; • Indicators and guidelines for impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; • Climate Service Centres and emerging experiences with information/scenarios tailoring; • Learning with extreme weather events and natural disasters; • Responding to extreme/rapid climate change. • New: CCIVA requirements for decadal predictions • New: CCIVA input into FWD/Floods Directive implementation

19. : some Outreach Get digitital copies! Just mail us at:tcapela@siam.fis.fc.ul.pt

20. Thank you for the attention! Soon you can visit us atwww.circle-era.eu Meanwhile more info at www.circle-era.net tcapela@siam.fis.fc.ul.pt