IRISCC: New EU Project Boosting Climate Resilience
A new, ambitious European Research Infrastructure project, IRISCC, focusing on climate change-driven risks, has officially started on April 1st. The project is coordinated by Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) and brings together 80 partners from across Europe and integrates research services by 14 research infrastructures (RIs) and e-infrastructures.
IRISCC, with a budget of almost €15 million, is a 54-month project with a mission to bolster society's capacity to tackle climate change risks and build resilience. We achieve this by offering access to interdisciplinary research platforms and data for researchers focusing on climate change risks. “Understanding the climate change-driven risks and being prepared to adapt to them is becoming even more crucial for our societies in the near future,”, says Janne Rinne, IRISCC co-coordinator.
Access to a Wealth of Resources
IRISCC offers access to complementary and interdisciplinary European and national RIs, encompassing observatories, experimental facilities, advanced modelling tools, and robust data infrastructures.
EGI is proud to be an important partner in IRISCC, acting as the central coordinator for communication, dissemination, engagement and exploitation (WP1). EGI is also crucial in knowledge exchange and user training (WP3), where we contribute to developing training modules for climate change risk capacity building, including FitSM training for research infrastructures (RIs) and by providing access to EGI’s training infrastructure, computing and storage environments. Furthermore, EGI contributes to (WP6) by helping to harmonise access policies and procedures for IRISCC’s digital services. This includes analysing existing AAI services at RIs and facilitating their inclusion in the federated EOSC AAI framework. Finally, EGI strongly collaborates with WP7, ensuring the efficient development of the front-end interface for the service catalogue, making it user-friendly and accessible.
Boosting Research and Evidence-Based Decisions
IRISCC fosters challenge-driven and interdisciplinary research on climate-change-related multi-hazard risks. This empowers informed decision-making, propelling Europe's adaptation and resilience strategies.
IRISCC's Key Objectives
- Support evidence-based policymaking for climate change adaptation and risk management.
- Facilitate high-quality research on climate change driven risks and its components.
- Provide a user-friendly, comprehensive service portfolio for climate change risk research.
- Ensure seamless integration across RIs and harmonise their access & data policies.
- Foster user engagement and co-creation of services with researchers and other stakeholders.
Investing in the Future
IRISCC is committed to open knowledge sharing and wide capacity building. The project offers training programs to equip the new generation of researchers with the skills to use these integrated research services for impactful climate change risk research. “Dissemination and exploitation of the services and training offered by the project is one of our key activities”, says Päivi Haapanala, IRISCC Project manager.
Targeting a Broad Spectrum of Stakeholders
IRISCC serves a diverse range of users, including the research community, commercial entities, local, national and international risk managers, international agencies, policymakers, and society at large.
IRISCC marks a significant step forward in empowering a collective response to climate challenges. By harnessing the collective expertise of European RIs, this project equips us to build a more resilient future. IRISCC is funded by the European Union under the Grant Agreement number 101131261.
Are you interested?
Contact the IRISCC Project Manager at Luke Päivi Haapanala or EGI's Project Representative, Magdalena Brus.
The website will be soon launched at www.iriscc.eu.
