1. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network Markus Leitner Environment Agency Austria CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Final Meeting Date: 26.-27.09.2013 Venue: Catalan Government, Barcelona, Spain

2. 2 AGENDA and SCOPE Day 1 Morning CIRCLE-2 CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network two of the four Projects EURAS-CLIMPACT CAMELEON Outcomes and spreading of results SECALP Project C3-Alps Project Capitalising climate change adaptation knowledge 3. 3 AGENDA and SCOPE Day 1 afternoon: Alpstar Project Adaptation in the Pyrenees Carpathian efforts in climate change adaptation Working Group 1 Knowledge exchange, knowledge sharing and Cooperation in MOUNTain areas How to improve knowledge sharing? Key areas of cooperation? Priorities in the upcoming 5-10 years? 4. 4 AGENDA and SCOPE Day 2: Climate change and adaptation in the himalayas CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network two of the four Projects ARNICA ChangingRISKS Working Group 2 Integrating Stakholders needs and scientific knowledge production Science-Practice Interface What are productive science-practice interactions? What makes science-practice interactions effective? What are key lessons you learned? 5. 5 CIRCLE FP6 ERA-Net Coordination Action 2005-2009 Three joint calls & 15 funded projects EU FP7 ERA-Net Coordination & Support Action May 2010 - April 2014 2 MEuros 20 Partners + 14 Contributing Partners Coordination: FFCUL - Portugal Background: CIRCLE and CIRCLE-2 6. 6 I. Coordinate European CCIVA research funding at the transnational scale II. Facilitate transfer of research outcomes III. Share experiences and lessons learnt on CCIVA research funding/management Development of national/regional Adaptation practices IV. Encourage international cooperation with non- European countries :the VISION 7. 7 1. Establish a research funding network that fosters responses to policy-relevant CCIVA questions 2. Facilitate cooperation across European CCIVA research programmes and institutions 3. Promote the alignment of national and regional CCIVA agendas under common strategic research and policy areas e.g. support of NAS via joint research 4. Fund joint initiatives and joint calls on CCIVA research 5. Share knowledge in support to the EC & our members :the OBJECTIVES 8. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Mountain research was seen as an important topic for several European countries and their research programmes Austria developed this group of interested funders further top get to the call in 2009 increase knowledge of options, premises and barriers for climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (CCIVA) including the relationship between adaptation and mitigation in mountain areas. Special emphasis has to be laid on the involvement of decision makers / developers and relevant stakeholders. EAA Climate Change Adaptation Platform (www.klimawandelanpassung.at, support of the NAS development, Interface between science and policy 9. 9 Acronym Name ARNICA Assessment of Risks on transportation Networks resulting from slope Instability and Climate change in the Alps EURAS- CLIMPACT Impact of climate change and related glacier hazards and mitigation strategies in the European Alps, Swedish Lapland and the Tien Shan Mountains, Central Asia Changing RISKS Changing pattern of landslide risks as response to global changes in mountain areas. CAMELEON CArbon dynamics in Mountain Ecosystems: analyzing Landscape- scale Effects Of aNthropogenic changes (climate and land-use) CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Projects 10. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach: CIRCLE-2 webpage - http://www.circle-era.eu/np4/169.html Kick-Off Meeting Chambery, February 2011 Policy Brief and Minutes French Webpage - http://www.circlemontagne.fr/ Presentation at the International Symposium on CLIMATE CHANGE IN HIGH MOUNTAIN REGIONS From understanding of the past towards modelling of the future Participation at the Public event "Why we care about mountains - from the Alps and the Carpathians to the Hindu- Kush and Himalaya region" 11. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach: CIRCLE-2 Mid-Term Meeting, March 2012, Innsbruck Policy Brief and Minutes MRI Meeting, April 21st - MRI Key Contact Workshop prior to the EGU Meeting 2012 International MOUNTain Day 2012, 11 December - Climate change and the need for adaptation Swiss-Austrian Mountain Days Meeting , Mittersill June 2013 CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Final Meeting, September 2013, Barcelona Policy Brief and Minutes 12. From science to decisions Creating and maintaining dialogue CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Group 13. Social Dinner La Mary Serria CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Group