European Network Activities on Global Change
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Transdisciplinary Regional Studies
Project Leader: Manfred Stock
Scientific
cooperation and exchange with other European research institutions
working on Global Change has been important for PIK from the beginning.
This is reflected by a number of new project activities at PIK on a
European level and with funding from the European Union. What do these
EUROPA activities have in common? First of all they address vital or
critical problems of climate, environment and society. Secondly, the
project objectives are of general European interest embedded in a
network of research institutions; and last but not least, the
activities are transdisciplinary and oriented towards specific regional
patterns of Global Change.
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Scientific
cooperation and exchange with other European research institutions
working on Global Change is reflected by a number of new project
activities at PIK. In nearly all cases both, the overall European
importance of the projects and relevance have been testified through a
positive funding decision in the evaluation procedure of the
Environment and Climate Programme of the EU. European projects are
organized in two different ways at PIK: either as they are in this
chapter, EUROPA, which it is planned, will become a core project, or in
relation to other core projects (see tables 1 and 2).
However, as regards network activities, like cooperation, coordinations
and scientific exchange, they should also be linked to the other EUROPA
projects. The EUROPA projects of table 1 are either concerted
actions or research projects. Both types are important for an exchange
of ideas, concepts, methods, models and data bases on the European
level. Although some of the projects assembled in table 1 have
German funding, their subject of research is of general European
interest. In particular the Regional Integrated Climate Change
Assessment in Brandenburg is a pilot study that may be adapted to many
other regions in Europe.
Table of Contents
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A Concerted Action Towards a Comprehensive Impacts and Adaptations Assessment for the European Union - ACACIA
Regional Climate Modelling and Integrated Global Change Impact Studies in the European Arctic - CLIMPACT
European Climate Projects Support Environment: Network for Co-ordinated Provision of Scientific and Technical Advice for Applying Climate Data in European Climate Change Research Projects - Eclat-2
European Forum on Integrated Environmental Assessment - EFIEA
Climatological Change of Hydrographic Parameters in the North Sea and the Baltic Sea - KLINO
Environmental and Societal Changes in Mountain Regions - Mountain
Regional Integrated Climate Change Assessment - RICC
- Urban Lifestyle, Sustainability and Integrated Environmental Assessment - ULYSSES
Weather Impacts on Natural, Social and Economic Systems - WISE
