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Information - US5 Prospective views for European Cooperation in Geosciences & Environmental Sciences: Contributions in a global context
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Many research questions are so complex or so broad that they cannot be addressed appropriately by a single research team, a single institute or even a single country, because of the need for critical masses of competences and resources.
In the European Research Area, one of the most difficult tasks is to cope with the currently fragmented research and funding instruments in Europe. It is indeed essential to address several intrinsic issues at the European level, among which:
- provide adequate scale and scope for the science-driven European research to address global research challenges;
- coordinate and develop new, important research topics in Europe;
- cooperate with major, international initiatives, and maintain international science leadership in Europe.
- favour institutional schemes for capacity building, researchers mobility and science synergy;
- coordinate the investments for and access to research infrastructure;
- cooperate with less developed national research systems;
- avoid or reduce unnecessary duplication of research and funding;
- reinforce the common European voice and position in a global context;
Overall, strategic science policy, high-quality science selection, science coordination, monitoring and networking and integration are key elements of a road map to maximize the European efforts in basic research, and their impact in the science-related policy decision-making processes. To achieve scientific novelty and originality, it is important that scientists themselves are fully involved. They should identify exciting emerging areas with European scientific added value in an openly competitive scheme; and they should be able to acquire or access the resources to work together across national boundaries and/or disciplines.
Such efforts are essential for the European researchers in Geosciences and Environmental Sciences to contribute markedly to high-quality and high-value research in a global context. For instance, Earth Systems Science (ESS) has recently emerged as a research field, which requires overcoming some conceptual, technical, and institutional barriers to a successful integration between different disciplines, different science corpus and different cultures in order to address cross-cutting, innovative, interdisciplinary issues..
With a series of keynote talks presented by well-established researchers or research managers in Europe, especially involved in successful, international initiatives or programmes in Geosciences and Environmental Sciences, this Union Symposium wishes to contribute to the current debate about the European science cooperation, and to the reinforcement of the European research areas relevant to Earth Systems Science. Indeed, as they all contribute to the understanding of the relations between natural processes and human activities, the Geosciences and Environmental Sciences are more and more deeply related to societal needs and strategic issues, at all time and space scales.
An EGU “Union Symposium” session is a great opportunity to debate on the European cooperation in Geosciences and Environmental Sciences and the strengthening of relevant European contributions to global science.
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