The climate crisis will be addressed through the new Horizon Europe project ‘ENVRINNOV- ENVironment Research infrastructures INNOVation Roadmap’, which received pound 2.5 million funding from the European Commission’s Horizon Europe Framework Programme, to prepare common strategies for the future development of Research Infrastructure (RI) technologies and services within the Environment community.
As stated in a press release by the Cyprus Institute, starting in January 2024 and with a duration of three years, ENVRINNOV will co-design, test, and validate a common Innovation Roadmap for the European Environmental and Earth System Research Infrastructures ENVRI community.
To achieve this, ENVRINNOV will conduct a comprehensive analysis of ENVRI services and technological needs and gaps and define how to monitor them regularly. It will also define, digitalise, and promote the uptake of common ENVRI innovation strategies for new technologies/services development to meet emerging needs/gaps and will engage t
he European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) and R and I environment ecosystems to ensure long-term synergies and complementarities with ENVRI and gather feedback and support for the Roadmap.
Finally, the project will plan for the timely and realistic implementation of the Roadmap, by also creating and validating with the ENVRI community an implementation plan, governance model and business model for the ENVRI Innovation Hub (EIH).
The announcement says furthermore that ENVRINNOV’s approach supports ESFRI’s strategic objective to ‘accelerate the exploitation of EU RIs as knowledge and innovation hubs’. It will help strengthen the European response to the climate crisis and its associated scientific, societal and economic challenges, by increasing the capacity of ENVRIs to respond to them. It will contribute to a more effective EU RI landscape and support better integration across thematic areas and with the EU Technology Infrastructure landscape.
ENVRINNOV’s impact will manifest on mult
iple levels, unlocking opportunities for novel environmental monitoring technology solutions and data applications, while indirectly promoting the development of the Technology Infrastructure dimension in various RIs.
To achieve its objectives, the ENVRINNOV consortium brings together ten (10) partners from five (5) European countries- Cyprus, Germany, Finland, Italy and France. In addition to the Cyprus Institute, which is the coordinator of the project, the rest of the partners consist of Forschungzentrum Julich GMBH -FZH (Germany), the Integrated Carbon Observation System- European Research Infrastructure Consortium- ICOS ERIC (Finland), the Aerosol, Clouds and Trace Gases Research Infrastructure- European Research Infrastructure Consortium – ACTRIS ERIC (Finland), the European Multi-Disciplinary Seafloor and Water Column Observatory-European Research Infrastructure Consortium – EMSO ERIC (Italy), Helsingin Yliopisto- UHEL (Finland), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique -CNRS (France), Commissaria
t à L’énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives – CEA (France), Karlsruher Institut Fuer Technologie – KIT (Germany) and Helmholtz-Zentrum Fur Umweltforschung GMBH – UFZ (Germany).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2023 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no 101131426.
Source: Cyprus News Agency