CzechGlobe – Global Change
Research Centre
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Jiří Kolman
Funding R&I infrastructures with ESIF
Interlink of funding – never ending adventure
Global Change (GC) is still under strong attention of the
society. It is not only the ecological, sociological and technical
problem.
Global Change (GC) is still under strong attention of the
society. It is not only the ecological, sociological and technical
problem.
The current situation of GC is accented by the
significant political dimension.
„Global change“wide spectrum of the biophysical, ecosystems and
socio-economical changes, which are responsible for the observable
changes of the plant Earth function“
For example: climate changes, changes of biodiversity, air chemistry,
landscape and ocean productivity“
Global Climate Change (GCC)“, or the Global warming is the PART of the GC
and represents the long-term deviations of the climatic parameters of the planet Earth.
GC shows unique property - is strongly connected to the human activity, mainly becasue of
the rermarkalble releasing of the greenhousee gases into the atmopshere, the landscape changes,
deforestation, intensive agriculture and transport.
The primary objective of the CzechGlobe project is to obtain deep expert
knowledge of the Global Change (GC) issues and on the development
of processes that would help eliminate the GC impacts or help adapt to its
effects. The resolution of the CzechGlobe project stems from three
basic questions:
1. To what extent is the biosphere of the Earth able to absorb
evincible residue of carbon dioxide and others greenhouse
gasses, which are induced into the atmosphere by humans
and thus possibly leading to negative impacts on the
greenhouse effect?
2. Are terrestrial ecosystems really the most vulnerable part of
carbon sinks of the planet Earth?
3. Is the development of human society in the context of the
Global Climate Change sustainable?
International dimensions and milestones of the CzechGlobe,
which can be regarded as a „child“ of EU research programmes
1992 – EPOCH EU 4. FW – the first full participation on GCC research „OTC“
1995 – ECOCRAFT EU 5. FW – enhanced CO2 - „Lamella domus spheres“
1996 – EUROFLUX EU 5. FW – first „eddy covariance“ technique in East Europe
1997 – CARBOMONT EU 5. FW – carbon budget of mountain areas
1998 – MERCI EU 5. FW – European infrastructure: Carbon physiology of forest trees
2003 – IP CARBOEUROPE EU 6. FW – Carbon and GHG budget
2008 –ESFRI EU 7. FW – pan-european infrastructure ICOS, AnaEE a
EUFAR
Global change research centre
ESFRI infrastructure ICOS: European infrastructure for observation and research on the Carbon cycle
Integrated Carbon Observation System
CzechGlobe - CORE INSTITUTION of the ESFRI infrastructure ICOS
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ESFRI infrastructure ANAEE: pan-European infrastructure of airborne carriers
ANAlysis and Experimentaion on Ecosystems
CzechGlobe INVESTIGATOR - MEMBER of the ESFRI infrastructure EUFAR
ESFRI infrastructure EUFAR: pan-European infrastructure airborne carriers used inr RS
European Fleet of Airborne Research
Interconnection of the CzechGlobe to ESFRI projects
CzechGlobe – CORE INSTITUTION of the ESFRI infrastructure ANAEE
Global change research centre
The CzechGlobe project was accepted to be a base
for establishment of the national infrastructure network
of eddy- covariance towers across the territory
of the Czech Republic
the national research infrastructure CzeCOS.
Interconnection of the CzechGlobe
to Czech national roadmap
Thematic content of the CzechGlobe
The CzechGlobe project issue is focused on the basic
thematic segments of the GC impacts, i.e.:
Atmosphere
Ecosystems
Socio-economic systems
accompanied by the innovation and educational platforms
CzechGlobe – infrastructure of the global change research
National point of the high-rise observation of GHG
at the atmopsheric reference level
Airborne remote sensing laboratory
Cesna Caravan flying
carrier of the thermal
and hyperspectral
sensors and LIDAR
• gas chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry
(GC-MS)
• HPLC coupled to mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS)
• weight isotope detector for the assessment of stable
isotope ratio (irMS)
• thermogravimetric analyzer (connected to GC)
• Raman spectrometer + FT-IR
• remote sensing data processing
• satelite receiver
Pavilion of isotopic, metabolomic laboratory
and phytotron cluster
Long-term impact experimental tools
Cultivation spheres
OpenTop Chamber farm
OpenTop Chamber
Phytotrone cluster
Eddy-covariation tower
Ecosystem CO2 efflux
measurement Microclimatology
Ecosystem stations network
Benefits of synergies
• State of the art infrastructure
• New opportunities and project partners
• Project management experience
• Evaluation and feedback from external
institutions (e.g. funding agencies,
audits...)
• Multifunctional use of the built
infrastructure by various users
Dark side of various funding resources use
• Complexity and sometimes clash of the
rules
• Usually it does not fits in time (various
funding use various periods of
implementation)
• Push to become project opportunistic and
reactive
• Permanent uncertainty for researchers
and research centre management
Dark side of various funding resources use
• Innovation obsession – however long term
monitoring and routine work is needed and
needs long term support
• Staff instability
• Cultural differences still matters (e.g.
various funding agencies, evaluators,
international researchers, companies...)
• Resortism
Solution?
• Coordination of the funding agencies (e.g.
ESIF rules in compliance with H2020 rules)
• Complete reform of peer review process
• Bigger accountability of project evaluators
and funding agencies
• Reform of European Institute of Technology
Thank You….
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