JPI Climate announces initial call details

A Joint Programming Initiative (JPI) co-ordinating and supporting climate research has announced the details of a €15m research call focusing on ‘developing climate services’.

The ‘Call for climate services collaborative research action on climate predictability and inter-regional linkages’ is expected to open on 1 April, and will run until the middle of November 2015. JPI Climate says that there will be a particular emphasis on ‘drivers and mechanisms linking poles and monsoons for societal usefulness of climate services’. The organisation says that obstacles still exist in regards to ‘having efficient climate services at regional and local level’; this is due to ‘little or poorly understood climate processes … inadequate dissemination of scientific knowledge, conflicts between climatic and non-climatic stressors and lack of action by decision makers and the human society at large’.

The call is jointly run by JPI Climate and the Belmont Forum and is open to scientists in Austria, Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Japan, Norway, Qatar, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. There is an emphasis on multidisciplinary research collaboration and proposals should address understanding past and current regional climate trends, prediction skills, and developing ‘forecast products’.

Projects selected for funding are expected to begin during spring next year. More details on the call can be found here.