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Project

eLTER

Title European Long-Term Ecosystem and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure
Grant Agreement Number 654359
Funding Programmes H2020
Budget Total: €4,999,138.00, EC Contribution: €4,999,138.00
Dates 01/06/2015 - 31/05/2019
Project URL http://www.lter-europe.net/elter
Scientific Domain Environmental Sciences
Type Of Project RIA
Abstract A collective effort is needed to create the environmental research infrastructure for answering pressing questions in a world of rapid social, economic and environmental change. The overall aim of the eLTER project is to advance the European network of Long-Term Ecosystem Research sites and socio-ecological research platforms to provide highest quality services for multiple use of a distributed research infrastructure. eLTER´s major objectives and methods are to: (1) identify user needs for the research infrastructure in relation to major societal challenges through consultations with scientific, policy and business stakeholders and horizon scanning; (2) streamline the design of a cost-efficient pan-European network, able to address multiple ecosystem research issues, in collaboration with related global and European research infrastructures, e.g. LifeWatch; (3) develop the organisational framework for data integration and enable virtual access to the LTER data by enabling data publishing through distributed Data Nodes and by providing access to data on key research challenges through a Data Integration Platform; (4) foster the societal relevance, usability and multiple use of information, data and services through new partnerships with the providers of remotely sensed data, analytical services and scenario testing models, and via the adoption of new measurement technologies. The LTER-Europe network and the European Critical Zone community will collaborate to achieve these goals. 162 sites in 22 countries will provide data on long-term trends in environmental change, some reaching back 100 years. Test cases using these data will address a range of environmental and social issues to push innovation in network level services and steer conceptual developments. The envisaged “LTER Infrastructure” will enable European-scale investigation of major ecosystems and socio-ecological systems, and support knowledge-based decision making at multiple levels.
Coordinator
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		UMWELTBUNDESAMT GMBH, Austria, (€853,309.00)
Partners
(Organisation name and Country, EC contribution to budget) 		RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN, Netherlands, (€90,047.00)
UNIVERZITET U NOVOM SADU, Serbia, (€221,132.00)
HELMHOLTZ-ZENTRUM FUER UMWELTFORSCHUNG GMBH, Germany, (€424,643.00)
University of Bucharest, Romania, (€85,697.00)
MIEDZYNARODOWY INSTYTUT POLSKIEJ AKADEMII NAUK - EUROPEJSKIE REGIONALNE CENTRUM EKOHYDROLOGII, Poland, (€95,943.00)
SVERIGES LANTBRUKSUNIVERSITET, Sweden, (€261,893.00)
ZNANSTVENORAZISKOVALNI CENTER SLOVENSKE AKADEMIJE ZNANOSTI IN UMETNOSTI, Slovenia, (€41,423.00)
TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE, Greece, (€177,406.00)
VLAAMS GEWEST, Belgium, (€105,465.00)
CONSEJO SUPERIOR DE INVESTIGACIONES CIENTIFICAS, Spain, (€91,821.00)
HELSINGIN YLIOPISTO, Finland, (€145,305.00)
SUOMEN YMPARISTOKESKUS, Finland, (€137,250.00)
INSTITUTE OF LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY OF THE SLOVAK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, Slovakia, (€47,459.00)
MAGYAR TUDOMANYOS AKADEMIA OKOLOGIAI KUTATOKOZPONT, Hungary, (€56,907.00)
FUNDACAO DA FACULDADE DE CIENCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA, Portugal, (€69,716.00)
INSTITUT PO BIORAZNOOBRAZIE I EKOSISTEMNI IZSLEDVANIYA BALGARSKA AKADEMIYA NA NAUKITE, Bulgaria, (€31,479.00)
BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV, Israel, (€216,516.00)
UNIVERSIDAD DE GRANADA, Spain, (€110,316.00)
MASINOTEK OY, Finland, (€47,145.00)
GEOHIRES INTERNATIONAL GMBH, Germany, (€50,250.00)
SENCKENBERG GESELLSCHAFT FUR NATURFORSCHUNG, Germany, (€115,173.00)
LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATES AGENTURA LATVIJAS UNIVERSITATES BIOLOGIJAS INSTITUTS, Latvia, (€49,579.00)
GISAT S.R.O., Czech Republic, (€48,562.00)