Climate Research Communication Network

Context

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our times and impacts all sectors of our societies.

In order to design and implement effective mitigation and adaptation measures, we need to understand the changes that are going on in our natural environment, and to foresee the best we can the changes to come.

Climate Science is an active field of research whose findings are constantly feeding our knowledge about the changing climate, future scenarios and possible solutions. The climate-research community plays a key role in informingpolicy- and decision-makers, business and society. Hence, climate researchers are frequently urged to engage in climate change dialogues, as they are crucial stakeholders.

There is often a long gap before published research results reach the policy universe and even longer time before they reach the rest of the society. This network aims to give climate research communication a push so that its results are shared faster, more efficiently and more broadly.

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Objectives

Increasing the impact of each member's communication by reaching a broader and more diverse audience.

Creating a community of practice to build common knowledge on best practices, contributing to make climate-research communication more impactful.

Establish a strong presence of the climate research community in communication networks and on social media.

Who are we?

We are Communications Officers, Project Managers, and Stakeholder Engagement leaders from various EU climate research projects.

We have held virtual biannual meetings since the kick-off of the network, in November 2022.

Network Map

Thanks to the EERIE project, you can explore the interactive map below to discover our various research projects and see the top three research areas each project shares with others.

(Note: the map may not display for some browsers or when connected via VPN – if this is the case, click here and scroll down.)

Projects that were previoulsy part of the network but have ended since.

Activities

Thematic meetings

Focus meetings on topics that have been identified by the community as particularly relevant or challenging.

Semi-annual remote meetings

Semi-annual network meetings to share experiences, discover projects, map out stakeholder engagement, communication and ECRs activities, identify topics of common interest, etc.

Joint Event Participation

Bringing together different projects for a joint participation in scientific or public events.

Joint Science-to-Policy Meetings

Science-to-policy meetings with EU comission officials, held at the EU comission (and online), with contributions from a cluster of network projects.