25 March 2024 | 09:00 - 10:00 (UK)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: St Trinnean's (St Leonards)
Organiser: Gaël Lymer (Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, Belgium)
Event Description:
This meeting will be the launch meeting of the EU-PolarNet 2’s White Paper with recommendations to accelerate the development of a sustained and fully integrated Polar observing system.
EU-PolarNet 2 (funded by the EU-H2020) aims to co-develop and advance the European polar research actions, and to give evidence-based advice to policy making processes. It is composed of 25 partners representing all European Member States and Associated Countries which have well-established Polar Programmes, polar research expertise and infrastructures.
As part of EU-PolarNet 2’s objectives, we have designed a white paper with actionable policy-level recommendations to develop a fully integrated Polar observing system. Such a system would provide a coordinated system for continuous, standardised data and transnational Polar observation and research actions of high societal relevance. Recommendations were collected from the polar research, observing and data communities, including both Arctic and Antarctic organisations.
This meeting will mark the launch of the white paper that will be published and distributed to a wide range of policymakers and funding bodies, including the European Commission, from April 2024.