The ERA-NET AXIS is a network of 11 funding organisations from 10 European countries that has been created to promote cross-boundary, cross-community research with the overall goal to improve coherence, integration and robustness of climate impact research and connect it to societal needs. To this effect, AXIS aims to bring together international expertise in the areas of its co-fund call for proposals and work on overcoming boundaries between science communities through inter- or trans-disciplinary research projects.
The objective of AXIS is to improve the knowledge base needed to guide societies in their transition to sustainability, in particular through an integrated understanding of social, political and environmental impacts and risks associated with climate change.
It aims to contribute to more accurate estimations and better quantified uncertainties with respect to what climate impacts are to be expected for different plausible socio-economic scenarios and for various carbon emission futures and corresponding warming levels.
Ultimately, this research shall increase the potential to use climate impact data in operational climate services (e.g. the Copernicus Climate Change Service, C3S) and support adaptation policies to reduce vulnerabilities and increase resilience in the future.
AXIS is structured into three interlinked thematic priorities (themes):
ERA-Net AXIS projects in the programme Brain-be 2.0
Co-funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union
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Research programmes