17 July 2007 - Seven of
Europe’s large environmental research organisations,
united in the Partnership for European Environmental
Research (PEER), will mobilise their unique
combination of skills and capacities to
provide novel perspectives on mitigation
and adaptation in relation to climate change.
With 4700 staff and a combined annual budget
of 360 million euros PEER can contribute
significantly to integrated solutions that
are compatible with sustainable development.
PEER proposes a joint initiative to analyse
and explore novel approaches to mitigation
and adaptation. PEER invites our regional,
national, European and global research partners
to participate in this initiative.
Together, we can build an open European
platform that brings together expertise
and exchanges information on the best approaches
to mitigate and adapt to climate change.
By taking full advantage of cross-boundary
approaches and by sharing knowledge, we
can find new solutions that are compatible
with sustainable development. Events that
foster debate with all sectors of society
are a key part of this initiative. The institutes
will also enhance exchange between databases,
their interoperability and the development
of environmental observatories. Together
these efforts by the research community
will significantly support European policy-making
on climate change.
The PEER initiative
PEER, the Partnership for European Environmental
Research, unites seven major European public
environmental research centres. A prime
activity of PEER is to foster strong interdisciplinary
environmental research and monitoring. Since
its foundation in 2001, PEER has promoted
synergies and added-value on a European
scale through the co-ordination of research
strategies and activities of its partners.
PEER members are active in many areas of
environmental research. These include biodiversity
and ecosystem services, water cycle and
natural hazards, conflicts in land use,
renewable energies, sustainable production
and consumption, development of environmental
technologies, risk assessment of pollutants,
and policy evaluation and environmental
governance. PEER research covers natural
and social sciences and uses tools such
as remote sensing, geoinformatics, modelling,
environmental monitoring and scenario-building
in a wide variety of ecosystems at different
spatial and temporal scales.
Graduate training course: Geo-visualization
in Environmental Research
17 July 2007
Partnership for European Environmental
Research - PEER - organises a series of
seven graduate training courses. The fourth
course, Geo-visualization in Environmental
Research, is now open for on-line registration
until 31. August. The course will be held
in Wageningen, the Netherlands on 10-14
December 2007.
What is METIER?
METIER (METhods of Interdisciplinary Environmental
Research) is a Marie Curie Series of Events
offered by the PEER network and funded by
the European Community.
Background
To solve environmental problems is challenging:
It requires both profound disciplinary knowledge
and interdisciplinary skills. While disciplinary
knowledge is usually trained lecture-based,
interdisciplinary skills are trained on
the job, e.g. in interdisciplinary research
projects. What is globally missing so far
is a systematic (especially graduate) curriculum
for interdisciplinary environmental research.
Objective
The Marie Curie Series of Events METIER
consists of seven graduate training courses
and one final conference addressing cutting-edge
methods of interdisciplinary environmental
research needed for supporting environmental
management:
- Remote sensing / collection of environmental
data,
- Information management,
- Geo-visualization,
- Environmental modelling,
- Scenario development and forecasting.
The educational material produced by METIER
will be published via the Internet. It can
be found on the pages of the respective
events.
PEER
Partnership for European Environmental
Research
- Environmental Research for a Sustainable
Society -
Vision
The vision of the Partnership for European
Environmental Research (PEER) is to be a
world leader in integrating knowledge and
expertise for sustainable development.
Mission
The mission of PEER is:
to build a strategic partnership of major
European public environmental research centres;
to lead a European Research Area that strengthens
the knowledge base for the sustainable development
of a changing world;
and to foster innovative interdisciplinary
research and cross-cutting approaches in
support of national and European policy-makers,
industry and society.
