The European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) aims to strengthen, expand and optimise EU climate research capabilities through the sharing of world-class national facilities in Europe and the collaborative realisation of pan-EU programmes. National and European Climate change research programmes have to be streamlined and coordinated, in order to ensure optimum use of human resources, modelling capacities, field activities, and infrastructures, maximising therefore the impact of scientific results and reinforcing the European Research Area for climate change science. x

Key objectives of ECRA

The high-level objectives of the Alliance are to:

• Accelerate the development of climate change research by conceiving and implementing Collaborative Programmes of research, combining capacities of research institutions and maximising complementarities and synergies, including collaboration with international partners.
• Work towards a long term, durable integration of excellent but dispersed research capacities across Europe, optimising the use of resources, building additional research capacity and developing a comprehensive range of pan-European research infrastructures.
• Strengthen Europe's capacity to initiate and execute large fundamental and comprehensive research and development programmes in climate science.
• Develop training, education and outreach activities, encouraging researcher mobility and providing a training environment for PhD students and other scientists in strategic climate sectors.
• Develop links and sustained partnerships with industry to strengthen the interplay between research outcomes and innovation and to foster the early take-up of promising results.
• Provide advice to policy and public in respect to climate change.

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Contact the Secretariat

Winfried Hoke
Executive Secretary
European Climate Research Alliance

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Rue du Trône 98
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1050 Brussels
Belgium

Phone: +32 2 5000 983
Fax: +32 2 5000 980
Email: winfried.hoke AT ecra-climate.eu

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Twitter: @ECRA_Climate

ECRA Associates

The ECRA Associates are research institutions which do have a minor commitment to a Collaborative Programme. They can become Associate Participant in collaboration with a Participant and contribute to a Collaborative Programme via a Collaborative Programme Participant.

Current ECRA Associates:

AREA Science Park
TU Delft Climate Institute
University of Bologna

ECRA Participants

ECRA Participants contribute substantial research activity to a specific Collaborative Programme (CP). In addition, ECRA Participants are collectively responsible for the overall effective functioning of the Collaborative Programme by formulating the CP Description of Work (DoW), as members of the  Collaborative Programme Steering Committee, and by ensuring adherance to ECRA principles and all other obligations by individual participants.

Current Participants:

Nord University (Bødo, NO)
National Research Council of Italy
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Department of Geography
Tecnalia
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research
CICERO Center for International Climate and Environmental Research
NERSC - Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center
University of Bergen
DMI - Denmark Meteorological Institute

All our core partners, participants, and associates - the ECRA members:

ECRA Partners

The Partners are the core members of ECRA. They are individual public research institutions or a cluster of research institutions which provide substantial research capacity and own resources to a Collaborative Programme of research in a particular field. Each country can only be represented once as a Partner of ECRA. The ECRA Partners form the Executive Committee (ExCom) which is supported by a secretariat.

Current ECRA Partners:

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in the field Earth and Environment (AWI, FZJ, GEOMAR, UFZ, GFZ, HZG, Helmholtz München, KIT)
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Finnish Meteorological Institute
CzechGlobe: Global Change Research Institute CAS
Norwegian Meteorological Institute
Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology of Spain
Technical University of Denmark
National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences

All our partners, participants and associates - the members of ECRA:

Executive Committee

The ECRA Executive Committee is the main decision taking body within ECRA. Each country can only be represented once as a Partner in ECRA. The ECRA Executive Committee is amongst others responsible for the selection of topics and launch of Collaborative Programmes, the work across different Collaborative Programmes, the approval of the ECRA membership and link to external stakeholders.

The ECRA Partners form the Executive Committee which is supported by a secretariat. The Executive Committee convenes twice a year. The chair of the Executive Committee is elected for two years by the Executive Committee.

Current composition of the ECRA Executive Committee:

• Peter Braesicke (Chair), Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, KIT, DE
• Len Shaffrey (Co-Chair), Uni Reading / National Centre for Atmospheric Science, NCAS, UK
• Stephen Mobbs, National Centre for Atmospheric Science, NCAS, UK
• Birte Holst Jørgensen, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, DK
• Ralf Ludwig, LMU, DE
• Angela Richter, Helmholtz, DE
• Ingo Sasgen, AWI, DE
• Gianmaria Sannino, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, ENEA, IT
• Elisa Palazzi, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, National Research Council, ISAC/CNR, IT
• Jiří Kolman, CzechGlobe, CZ
• Yolanda Benito Moreno, Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology of Spain, CIEMAT, ES
• Begoña Artiñano, Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology of Spain, CIEMAT, ES
• Valerio Abbadessa, ENEA, IT
• Hilppa Gregow, Finnish Meteorological Institute, FMI, FI
• Rasmus Bendestad, Norwegian Meteorological Institute on behalf of the Norwegian Climate Centre, NMI, NO
• Eystein Jansen, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research / University of Bergen, NO
• Martin Drews, Technical University of Denmark, DTU, DK

The European Climate Research Alliance (ECRA) is an association of 23 European research institutions (institutes and universities) in the field of climate research. 

There are three levels of membership: Partners, Participants, and Associates.

ECRA is open to new members. Find out more here »

Below is a list of all ECRA members along with a description of their key expertise in climate research and their involvement in ECRA's four Collaborative Programmes (CPs).

Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres in the field Earth and Environment (AWI, FZJ, GEOMAR, UFZ, GFZ, HZG, Helmholtz München, KIT)	One of the six research fields of the Helmholtz Association is Earth and Environment. Eight Helmholtz research centres focus on atmosphere and climate as well as marine, coastal and polar systems and contribute their expertise to each of ECRA’s Collaborative Programmes. Read more »
Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)	ENEA consists of nine research centres and five laboratories active within seven sectors, including Climate and Environment. With its climate research activities focusing on Observations and Analyses of Earth and Climate as well as Climate Modelling and Impacts, ENEA contributes to all four ECRA Collaborative Programmes. Read more »
Finnish Meteorological Institute	FMI provides weather and safety services and conducts research in meteorology, air quality, climate change, earth observation, and marine and Arctic areas. With this expertise, FMI is active in ECRA’s CPs Arctic Climate Stability and Change as well as High Impact Events. Read more »
Norwegian Meteorological Institute	The Norwegian Meteorological Institute is responsible for weather and climate services to ensure public safety along with conducting climate research, with a focus on the High North. It is active in ECRA’s CP High Impact Events and Climate Change and Changes in the Hydrological Cycle. Read more »
Research Centre for Energy, Environment and Technology of Spain (CIEMAT)	CIEMAT is a research body focussing on energy and environment and the related technologies. Its research, development and innovation activities aim at contributing to sustainable development. CIEMAT is active in ECRA’s CP Changes in the Hydrological Cycle. Read more »
Technical University of Denmark	DTU is an education and research facility in technical and natural sciences. The focus of its climate research activities includes impacts, adaptation and mitigation as well as polar regions. DTU is active in all four ECRA CPs. Read more »
National Centre for Atmospheric Sciences	The National Centre for Atmospheric Science (NCAS) is a world leader in atmospheric science. NCAS increases knowledge of key environmental issues including: climate change, weather processes and atmospheric composition including air quality. NCAS uses state-of-the-art technologies for observing and modelling the atmosphere and its research is used by policy makers and the wider UK science base. Read more »
Global change Research Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CzechGlobe)	CzechGlobe is a public research institution, European center of excellence investigating the ongoing global change and its impact on the atmosphere, biosphere and human society through the use of the latest techniques and instrumentation. The research focuses primarily on the development of climate and its future scenarios, on the carbon cycle and the effects of changing conditions on the production and biodiversity of ecosystems and on the impacts on the future development and behavior of our society.  Read more »
AREA Science Park
National Research Council of Italy
TU Delft Climate Institute
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Department of Geography
Danish Meteorological Institute
Tecnalia
Bolin Centre for Climate Research
University of Bologna
Institute of Environmental Assessment and Water Research (IDAEA-CSIC)
Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research (BCCR)
Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC)
Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)

Membership of the ECRA will in principle be open to all research organisations that can contribute substantially to achieving its objectives. There are three levels of membership: Partners, Participants and Associates. All three levels are ECRA members. The ECRA will evolve over time as experience is gained in the implementation of Collaborative Programmes (CPs). The Collaborative Programmes are the core activities of ECRA.