EASME, Horizon 2020 and GEO

GEO European Projects Workshop 31 May 2016 / Berlin

Patrick Lambert Director

EASME: History

• One of the 6 Executive Agencies of the EU

• Established in December 2003 as the Intelligent

Energy Executive Agency (IEEA)

• 2007-2013: remit extended to the Competitiveness

and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) and

Marco Polo

• On 1st January 2014: EACI became EASME

• 7 Parent DG's: GROW, RTD, ENV, ENER, CLIMA,

MARE, CONNECT

• Managing EU programmes

• Feeding into the policy-making process with project outcome & success stories

EASME's role within the European Commission Evaluation

Grant Agreement Preparation

Project follow-up

Policy feedback

H2020 –SC5 Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Budget of €3 billion over 7 years for:

Eco-Innovation Natural Resources

Raw Materials

Climate Action and Earth Observation

Raw Materials

EASME Unit B2 - Horizon 2020: Environment and Resources

• Unit created on 1 January 2014

• Human Resources:

• 34 staff members today to grow to some

• 70 staff members by 2020

• Unit organised around 4 sectors:

• H2020 Eco-innovation

• Climate Action

• Natural Resources

• Raw Materials and SILC II

H2020 –SC5 Climate Action, Environment, Resource Efficiency and Raw Materials

Raw Materials

Climate Action and Earth Observation

Strategic themes:

• Climate services

• Decarbonisation of the economy

• The Arctic dimension

• Earth Observation within GEO

Current set of Earth Observation projects managed by EASME

• AtlantOS: Optimizing and Enhancing the Integrated Atlantic Ocean Observing System

• SWOS: Satellite-based Wetland Observation Service

• ECOPOTENTIAL: Improving Future Ecosystem Benefits Through Earth Observations

• GEO-CRADLE: Coordinating and integRating state-of-the-art Earth Observation Activities in the regions of North Africa Middle East, and Balkan

• Citizen Observatories on Land Use: Ground Truth 2,0, GROW, LandSense, Scent

Current set of Earth Observation projects managed by EASME

Projects to start end of 2016:

• Integrated Arctic Observing System (BG-9, 15 M€)

• European data hub of the GEOSS information system (SC5-20, 10 M€)

Climate Action: Ongoing projects

Climate Modelling: PRIMAVERA, CRESCENDO

2016-BG-10

Climate Change Mitigation: GREEN-WIN, TransRisk,

Clair-City, ICARUS, iSCAPE 2016-SC5-6

Climate Change Adaptation:

RESIN, EU-Circle IMPREX, BINGO

Climate Services: ClimateEurope, 2016-SC5-1,3

Earth Observation

The food–energy–water–climate nexus:

MAGIC, SIM4NEXUS

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION

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Patrick Lambert Director

Patrick.Lambert@ec.europa.eu