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Who pays: Usually funded by the EU or other international research organizations
What’s covered: Travel, accommodation, and access to the facility/equipment
The goal: Share expensive infrastructure across borders so science advances faster and more equitably
Who benefits: Researchers who don’t have access to specialized equipment in their home country

How AnaEE-ERIC boost climate change research

Climate change poses unprecedented challenges to ecosystems worldwide, demanding robust scientific evidence to guide adaptation and mitigation strategies. AnaEE-ERIC addresses this critical need by providing researchers with access to a distributed network of experimental platforms where they can simulate future climate conditions and observe real-time ecosystem responses. Through controlled manipulations of temperature, precipitation, CO₂ levels, and other environmental variables across diverse European biomes, the infrastructure enables scientists to move beyond predictive models and directly observe how ecosystems will respond to different climate scenarios.

This experimental approach generates the empirical data essential for validating climate models, understanding tipping points in ecosystem functioning, and developing evidence-based solutions for agriculture, forestry, and natural resource management in a changing world.

By facilitating long-term experiments and cross-site comparisons, AnaEE-ERIC is building the knowledge base needed to protect ecosystem services and ensure food security for future generations.