ACTRIS Countries

ACTRIS-ERIC Countries

Austria

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The ACTRIS-AT Consortium consists of the following research performing organisations:

• Institute of Atmospheric and Cryospheric Sciences (ACINN)

• University of Innsbruck Sonnblick Observatory

• Geosphere Austria Aerosol Physics & Environmental Physics (AEP)

• Universität Wien Division of Biomedical Physics

• Medical University Innsbruck Institut for Meteorology (Boku-Met)

• University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 

• Vienna Luft Blick Earth Observatory Technologies,

• Innsbruck Vienna University of Technology (TU),

• Research Group for Environmental Analytics TU Graz, 

• Institute of Electrical Measurement and Sensor Systems

The Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research, FWF Austrian Fund and the Austrian research promotion Agency support ACTRIS-AT. Each member has signed an MoU and anchored ACTRIS administratively at the management level. 

In 2024 TU Graz joined the consortium as a new partner.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Jochen Wagner, Division for Biomedical Physics, Medical University, Innsbruck
Email: jochen.wagner@i-med.ac.at

 

Website

 

Belgium

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The research performing organisations in the national ACTRIS consortium are: 

• the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)
• the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium (KMI-IRM)
• the University of Liège (ULiège)
• the Institut Scientifique de Service Public (ISSeP)

The Belgian research performing organisations contribute to the ACTRIS Centre for Reactive Trace Gases (CREGARS) by supporting reactive trace gas remote sensing measurement, and, as operators of ACTRIS National Facilities, in the delivery of high-quality dataas well as provision of measurement campaign opportunities.

ACTRIS-Belgium is coordinated by BIRA-IASB and supported for three more years starting March 15th 2024by the Federal Belgian Science Policy and host institutions.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member
National Contact Person:

Bart Dills, Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy (BIRA-IASB)

Email: bart.dills@aeronomie.be

 

Bulgaria

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The ACTRIS-BG  Consortium consists of two research performing organizations: 

• Institute for Nuclear Research
• Nuclear Energy and Institute of Electronics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences 

These organizations are involved in ACTRIS activities with their atmospheric measurement sites – mountain station BEO Moussala (for aerosol in situ observations) and Sofia EARLINET lidar station (for aerosol remote-sensing observations). Since June 2017 ACTRIS-BG has been on the Bulgaria National roadmap for research infrastructure 2017-2023, which is a clear sign for the national recognition of the conducted research.

ACTRIS BG is included in the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructure 2020 – 2027 (NRRI). The Ministry of Education and Science (MoES) is the financial coordinator of NRRI and signs contracts with the coordinator and the partner organization (in the case of ACTRIS BG) for funding needed and allocated to the respective organization for the maintenance, upgrade and upscaling of the research infrastructure and relevant equipment.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Persons:

Kalin Mutavchiev, Ministry of Education and Science of Bulgaria

Email: k.mutavchiev@mon.bg

 

Website

 

Cyprus

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The research performing organisations in ACTRIS-Cyorus are: 

• The Cyprus Institute (CyI)
• ERASTOTHENES Centre of Excellence (EcoE)

ACTRIS-Cyprus has been enabled by two large European projects (EMME-CARE and EXCELSIOR), financiallysupported by the European Commission and the Cyprus Government. These two projects have led to theestablishment of the CARE-C and ERASTOTHENES Centres of Excellence (CoEs), which are the two Research Performing Organisations operating ACTRIS observations in Cyprus. 

The Deputy Ministry of Research, Innovation and Digital Policy of the Republic of Cyprus is committed to supporting the general and operational activities of ACTRIS-Cyprus. The Cyprus Institute will fund the operation of the National Facilities CAO and USRL, while the Cyprus University and the ERATOSTHENES Centre of Excellence will contribute to the operational support of the National Facility CARO.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Prof. Jean Sciare, Climate & Atmosphere Research Centre Director,The Cyprus Institute
E-mail: j.sciare@cyi.ac.cy

 

 

Czech Republic

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The ACTRIS-CZ consortium consists of the following research performing organizations: 

• Czech Hydrometeorological InstituteInstitute of Chemical Process Fundamentals
• Czech Academy of Sciences Global Change Research Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czechglobe)
• RECETOX, Faculty of Science, Masaryk
• University Institute of Atmospheric Physics
• Czech Academy of Sciences 

The latest update of the Roadmap of Large Research Infrastructures of the Czech Republic for the years 2023-2026 was acknowledged by the Czech Government on June 14th 2023. The Roadmap update was prepared following the resolution of the Government of the Czech Republic on public funding of large research infrastructures by 2026.  Since 2015, the Roadmap has included only the large research infrastructures adopted for public funding by the Government of the Czech Republic. As regards the financial support of such large research infrastructures, their operations costs are funded directly by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS). The investment needs of large research infrastructures are then financed by the MEYS using European Structural and Investment Funds, currently from the Operational Programme Jan Amos Komenský (OP JAK). In this way, the Czech Republic applies a synergetic model of funding the operations and investment costs of large research infrastructures, using the state budget expenditures of the Czech Republic on research, development and innovation and the EU cohesion policy instruments.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Jakub Ondracek, Research Group of Aerosol Chemistry andPhysics, Institute of Chemical ProcessFundamentals, Czech Academy of Sciences
E-mail: ondracek@icpf.cas.cz

 

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Denmark

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-DK is constituted by a national ACTRIS consortium of the esearch performing organizations:

• Aarhus University
• University of Copenhagen

They contribute to ACTRIS National Facilities with observational and exploratory platforms which focus on the studies of aerosol formation, growth, and processes. Aarhus University is running all monitoring networks in Denmark and in Greenland including particle size distribution measurements. ACTRIS-DK is not on the national research infrastructure roadmap, but initiatives are taken to have it on the road map in the future.

Denmark's active engagement in ACTRIS isreflected in the membership of Professor Bilde in theAtmospheric Simulation Chamber Committee (ACCC),contributing to the broader development of ACTRIS facilities.

Membership Status in the Interim ACTRIS Council: Member

National Contact Person:

Henrik Skov, Aarhus University
E-mail: hsk@envs.au.dk

Finland

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-FI is the Finnish component of the distributed research infrastructure ACTRIS. ACTRIS-FI host the ACTRIS Head Office and the statutory seat of the ACTRIS ERIC. The ACTRIS Head Office includes the ERIC Management Unit, RI Operations Unit, and Strategies and Relation Unit. 

ACTRIS-FI is organized as a consortium of 4 Research Performing Organizations (RPOs): 

• the University of Helsinki (UHEL)

• the Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI)

• the University of Eastern Finland (UEF)

• Tampere University (TAU)

The RPOs contribute to ACTRIS Central Facility by hosting, coordinating and supporting the ACTRIS Data Centre namely the CloudNet database (FMI), ACTRIS Centre for Cloud Remote Sensing and ACTRIS Centre for Aerosol and Reactive Trace Gases in-situ Measurements (UHEL). 

ACTRIS-FI is based on a large number of existing observational sites (SMEAR I-IV) and exploratory platforms operating on a national level from the Baltic Sea to Finnish Arctic, as well high-quality observation sites overseas (Antarctic Peninsula) and Northern Siberia. ACTRIS-FI belongs to the Finnish RI roadmap 2014-2020 as a major part of INAR (Institute of Atmospheric and Earth System Research).

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Persons:

Katrianne Lehtipalo (ACTRIS-FI Director), University of Helsinki, Finnish Meteorological Institute

Email: katrianne.lehtipalo@helsinki.fi

Silja Häme (ACTRIS-Finland Coordinator), University of Helsinki

Email: silja.hame@helsinki.fi

 

Website

 

France

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-FR has been on the French National Roadmap since 2016. ACTRIS-FR operates under a consortiumagreement signed by 23 organisations:

• Centre National de Recherche Scientifique
  (CNRS)
• Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES)
• Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives (CEA)
• Institut de Recherche pour le
  Développement (IRD)
• Institut Mines-Télécom Nord Europe (IMTNE)
• Institut National de l’EnviRonnement Industriel et des RisqueS (INERIS)
• Institut Paul-Emile-Victor (IPEV)
• Institut Polytechnique de Grenoble (Grenoble-INP)
• Météo France (MF)
• Aix-Marseille Université (AMU)
• École des Ponts ParisTech (ENPC)
• Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS)
• Ecole Polytechnique (EP)
• Sorbonne Université (SU)
• Université Clermont Auvergne (UCA)
• Université Grenoble-Alpes (UGA)
• Université de Lille (ULILLE)
• Université d'Orléans (UO)
• Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)
• Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
• University de Toulouse (UT)
• Université de la Réunion (UR)
• Université Versailles St. Quentin (UVSQ)

The governance structure comprises four different bodies: a general assembly, a head office, an executive board and a scientific advisory group.

ACTRIS-France is mainly funded by the participating 23 host organizations, CNRS being the most important contributor (>30%). The Ministry of Higher Education and Research furthermore supports the structured implementation of ACTRIS-FR. A major national project ANR/Equipex+/Obs4Clim (2021-2028) provides funding to upgrade the national platforms of ACTRIS-FR, ICOS-FR, and IAGOS-FR, intending to support the development of new technologies toward a future atmospheric observing system.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

Contact Person:

Stephane Sauvage (ACTRIS France Director), IGE - Université Grenoble-Alpes
E-mail: stephane.sauvage@imt-nord-europe.fr

 

Website

 

Germany

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The consortium ACTRIS-D consists of 11 research performing organisations (RPOs) which have signed Letters of Commitment regarding the long-term operation of ACTRIS infrastructure. Eight RPOs have signed Letters of Intent to support the ESFRI Roadmap process.

• Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
• Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centerfor Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
• Bergische Universität Wuppertal (BUW)
• Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
• Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH (FZJ)
• Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (GUF)
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
• Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München(LMU)
• German Environment Agency (UBA)
• Universität Bremen (UBRE)
• University of Cologne (UoC)

ACTRIS-D has been selected for the German National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in 2019. 

The implementation of ACTRIS-D is funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) under the FONA Strategy “Research for Sustainability”. The operation of the ACTRIS Central Facilities is supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection (BMUV). Contributions of the German Meteorological Service (DWD) are funded by the Federal Ministry of Digital and Transport (BMDV). Both the implementation and operation of ACTRIS-D are co-funded by the German Research Performing Organisations.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

Contacts:

Person: Dr. Ulla Wandinger, Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS)
E-mail: ulla@tropos.de

Italy

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The Italian ACTRIS consortium is organized in a Joint Research Unit named ACTRIS Italy (ACTRIS- IT), which was formally established in October 2017 and officially recognized in September 2018 by the Italian Ministry of Research and Education and seven Italian institutions. The consortium includes Universities and Research Performing Organizations that have been carrying out ACTRIS-related research activities for about 15 years in the frame of several research and collaboration projects:

• CNR - National Research Council of Italy
• INFN – Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics
• ENEA - Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
• University “Federico II” of Naples
• University of L’Aquila
• University “Sapienza” of Rome
• University of Salento
• University of Urbino
   

The ACTRIS-IT has a governance body, the General Assembly already established, which is the major decision body, and a coordination team for day-to-day management. All the parties of the JRU contribute in terms of human and instrumental resources. 
ACTRIS is included in the PNIR, the national research infrastructure roadmap, available on-line here. The PNIR identifies the priority research infrastructures for Italy by adopting, for this purpose, European methods and criteria, and provides the possibility of systematizing what is already present in Italy. ACTRIS is part of the National Roadmap as high priority research infrastructure.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

Contact Person:

Lucia Mona, National Research Council of Italy
E-mail: lucia.mona@cnr.it

 

Website

 

 

The Netherlands

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The ACTRIS consortium in the Netherlands consists of the following research performing organizations:

• Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute(KNMI)
• Delft University of Technology (TU-Delft)
• Netherlands Organisation for applied scientific research (TNO)
• Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
• Utrecht University – Institute for Marine andAtmospheric Research (IMAU)
• Free University (VU)
• Amsterdam University of Groningen (RUG)
• National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)

The Consortium has a formal collaboration agreement under the name of CESAR (Cabauw Experimental Site for Atmospheric Research). The collaborating parties are: KNMI, TU-Delft, TNO, RIVM, Wageningen University, Utrecht University and ESA-ESTEC. The CESAR facility is on the National Roadmap for large-scale scientific research infrastructures. 

The Ruisdael Observatory project (2018-2027), funded by NWO, is part of the national roadmap of large-scale research infrastructures and is linked to ACTRIS ERIC and ICOS ERIC. The project includes investment in and installation of infrastructure. The NWO funding is matched with cash and in-kind contributions from the project partners. For 2024-2029 the Dutch government supports the Cabauw tasks in ACTRIS ERIC and ICOS ERIC executed by KNMI and TNO.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

Contact Person:

Arnoud Apituley, Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI)
E-mail: arnoud.apituley@knmi.nl

 

 

Norway

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The research performing organisation involved in ACTRIS-NO are: 

• NILU
• Norwegian Meteorological Institute
• CICERO

ACTRIS-Norway contributes strongly to ACTRIS; NILU leads the ACTRIS Data Centre for the entire infrastructure, and the Norwegian observatories (Zeppelin, Birkenes and Trollhaugen) are taking part in the labelling process as ACTRIS National Facilities.

The Consortium is funded by the Research Council of Norway until 2027. The Norwegian ACTRIS measurements are primarily associated with Norway's obligation towards the UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe), CLTRAP (Convention on Long-range Transboundary Air Pollution), and EMEP (European Monitoring and Evaluation Programme). The costs associated with the ACTRIS National Facilities are part of the national monitoring programme and ministry support for observatory infrastructures. 

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Valentin Duflot,  Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
E-mail: vduf@nilu.no

 

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Poland

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The consortium of ACTRIS-Poland consists of 

• Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences 

• Institute of Environmental Engineering 

• PolishAcademy of Sciences Institute of Meteorology and Water Management National Research Institute

• University of Warsaw

• University of Wrocław

• University of Silesia in Katowice

• Poznan University of Life Sciences

• Warsaw University of Technology

In January 2020, ACTRIS-Poland Consortium was successful in placing ACTRIS-Poland on the National Roadmap for Research Infrastructures. 
Partners of ACTRIS-Poland maintain and develop the existing four measurement sites selected so as to reasonably cover the country. Those are considered the priority sites, which are targeted to be fully operational by the end of 2025. The development of the mobile laboratory is most challenging, being a joint effort of all RPOs, yet crucial for increasing the national visibility of ACTRIS-Poland via its future operation at different locations in Poland. Moreover, ACTRIS-Poland community started collaboration with ICOS-Poland community to support their development of high tower atmospheric measurement site via collocation with one of the ACTRIS sites. The ACTRIS-Poland Mobile Laboratory and the ACTRIS-ICOS collocated site are both forseen to be developed after 2025. 

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Persons:

Aleksander Pietruczuk, Institute of Geophysics Polish Academy of Sciences

Email: alek@igf.edu.pl

Iwona Stachlewska, Institute of Geophysics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw

Email: iwona.stachlewska@fuw.edu.pl

 

 

Romania

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-RO is organized as a consortium of the following research performing organization:

• National Institute of Research and Developmentfor Optoelectronics (INOE)
• Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB)
• "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati (DJUG)
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
• National Institute for Aerospace Research Elie Carafoli (INCAS)
• Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (UAIC)

The institutions are collaboratively organized in the ACTRIS-RO consortium and have signed a Memorandum of Understanding back in 2015 for the implementation of ACTRIS activities. ACTRIS-RO was included in the national roadmap for research infrastructures already in 2017, and re-confirmed in 2021.

Although a national roadmap for RIs exists in Romania, no direct funding is provided. All RIs on the national roadmap are eligible to apply to specific competitive calls, as part of programs dedicated to research infrastructures. The consortium has attracted funding over the years through competitive programs, managing the development of top laboratories, as well as attracting national and international specialists.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Doina Nicolae, National Institute of R&D for Optoelectronics
E-mail: nnicol@inoe.ro

 

Website

 

Spain

The status of national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-Spain is currently organized under a Memorandum of Understanding signed by 11 RPOs, namely:

• Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
• Agencia Estatal de Meteorología (AEMET)
• Barcelona Supercomputer Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC)
• lnstituto lnteruniversitario de lnvestigación del Sistema Tierra en Andalucia.
• Universidad de Granada (IISTA-UGR)
• Centro de lnvestigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas (CIEMAT)
• Fundación de la Comunitat Valenciana Centro de Estudios Ambientales del Mediterráneo (CEAM)
• lnstituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
• Universidad Miguel Hernández (UMH)
• Universidad de Valladolid (UVA)
• Universitat de València (UV)
• Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)

The Spanish National Research Infrastructure Roadmap does not exist at present.

ACTRIS-Spain has primarily been funded through public grants at national and regional levels, contributions
from Research Performing Organizations, mainly in-kind, and additional support from European Framework
Programme projects. The membership fee is financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and
Universities.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Persons:

Person: Amalia Muñoz, Fundación Centro de Estudios Ambientales delMediterráneo (CEAM)
E-mail: amalia@ceam.es

Person: Carlos Toledano, University of Valladolid
E-mail: toledano@goa.uva.es

 

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Sweden

The status of national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS Sweden is formally established (Memorandum of Understanding), involving:

• Lund University
• Stockholm University
• Gothenburg University
• Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
• Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute
• Uppsala University. 

Since 2017, ACTRIS-Sweden has been on the Swedish Research Infrastructure Roadmap in the highest Category A1. This paved the way for ACTRIS-Sweden to be established in 2022 as a national research infrastructure with financial support from the Swedish Research Council. In turn, this enabled Sweden to become one of the founding members of ACTRIS ERIC in 2023.
 

The ACTRIS-Sweden observations are made along a 3000 km south-north gradient and hence also a high-to-low gradient in anthropogenic pollution and boreal-to-polar climate. It is expected that ACTRIS-Sweden with its co-localization with ICOS Sweden providing long-term observations on long-lived greenhouse gases, their variability, sources and sinks – will have a critical impact on enhancing excellence in Earth system observations and research by providing information and knowledge for the development of sustainable solutions to societal needs.
 

On request from the Swedish Research Council, extensive discussions have taken place between ACTRIS Sweden, ICOS Sweden and SITES (Swedish Infrastructure for Ecosystem Science). SITES is a Swedish national research infrastructure similar to European eLTER in the ESFRI environment and climate domain. These
discussions resulted in a strategic plan for enhanced cooperation between ACTRIS-Sweden, ICOS Sweden and SITES for maximizing scientific value and organizational and economic efficiency.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Member

National Contact Person:

Person: Erik Swietlicki, Lund University
E-mail: erik.swietlicki@nuclear.lu.se

 

Website

 

Switzerland

The status of national ACTRIS consortium

The national ACTRIS consortium consists of six partners: 

• Swiss Federal Laboratories for MaterialsScience and Technology (Empa)
• Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos/World RadiationCenter (PMOD/WRC)
• Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science (IAC), ETH Zürich
• University of Bern
• Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology, MeteoSwiss
• Paul Scherrer Institute

ACTRIS-Switzerland operates one unit in the ACTRIS Centre for Aerosol Remote Sensing (CARS), one unit in the Centre for Reactive Trace Gases In Situ Measurements (CiGas), one Exploratory Platform, and three Observational Platforms,which serve both commonand type-specific user groups. The Central Facility units have a focus on expert training, ensuring data quality for scientific applications, and method development in collaboration with private companies and national institutes of metrology.

The Exploratory Platform serves researchers as a user platform for sophisticated process studies aswell as for testing advanced instruments for atmospherically relevant samples under controlled conditions.The Observational Platforms are tailored towards providing comprehensive and high-quality data sets forEarth system research in addition to hosting researchers for field experiments.

ACTRIS entered the Swiss Roadmap for Research Infrastructures in 2019, which enabled the establishmentof the national consortium and implementation of the ACTRIS facilities in Switzerland. In 2024, the State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation committed funding for the 2025-2028 period to finalize implementation and transition to operation. ACTRIS Switzerland further relies on financial support from the RPOs, synergies with co-located observation networks, and infrastructure hosting the facilities such as the High Altitude
Research Station Jungfraujoch.

Membership Status in the ACTRIS ERIC General Assembly: Permanent Observer

National Contact Person:

Martin Gysel-Beer, Paul Scherrer Institute

Email: martin.gysel@psi.ch

 

Website

 

 

ACTRIS-Engaging Countries

Estonia

The status of the foreseen national ACTRIS consortium

The following research performing organisations are involved in the foreseen national ACTRIS consortium:

• Estonian University of Life Sciences
• Institute of Forestry and Engineering
• University of Tartu, Environmental Physics
• Tartu Observatory

All partners are participating in the Estonian Environmental Observatory consortium. This consortium has a common agreement. During 2024, a renewal of the national roadmap has been conducted and the Estonian Environmental Observatory is part of the new roadmap.

Currently, there are no dedicated funding for ACTRIS Estonia. The only funding sources are linked with the participating scientists and research performing organisations’ project-driven funding opportunities.

National Contact Person:

Steffen M. Noe, Estonian University of Life Science

 

Website 

 

Greece

The status of the foreseen national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-Greece involves the following research performing organisations:

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
• University of Crete
• University of Patras
• National observatory of Athens (NOA)
• Foundation for Research and Technology(FORTH)
• National Centre for Scientific Research –Demokritos

The Greek ACTRIS consortium is under the umbrella of PANACEA Research infrastructure. An application was submitted in January 2024 to ensure the finance and operation of the ACTRIS-Greece consortium for the next 5 years. Results are expected in 2025.

National Contact Person: 

Nikolaos Mihalopoulos, University of Crete and National Observatory of Athens Ministries

 

Website

 

Ireland

The status of the foreseen national ACTRIS consortium

ACTRIS-Ireland consists in the following research performing organisations: 

• University College Cork (UCC)
• University of Galway (UoG)
• Met Éireann

The two main participants (UoG and UCC) have been involved with the ACTRIS community for well over adecade and have participated in all projects carried out to date. However, Ireland does not have a currentnational research infrastructure roadmap and securing support for involvement in ACTRIS is therefore verychallenging. There are no formal procedures to follow and discussions with the relevant governmentdepartments and agencies have so far proved to be unproductive. Nevertheless, UCC and UoG remaincommitted to continued engagement with the Irish government to secure support for establishing ACTRIS-Ireland and joining ACTRIS ERIC as a full member.

The Observational and Exploratory Platforms in UoG and UCC have been developed with funds obtained from national research funding mechanisms. The respective institutions have also supported these research facilities by providing equipment and staff. However, the continued operation of these facilities into the Operational Phase of ACTRIS can only be ensured if the government commits to establish ACTRIS-Ireland and support it with targeted national funding.

National Contact Person:

John Wenger, University College Cork (UCC)

 

 

Portugal

The status of the national ACTRIS consortium

The following research performing organizations are involved:

• University of EvoraUniversity of Aveiro
• University of Azores
• University of Beira Interior
• LEPABE - Laboratory for Process Engineering,Environment, Biotechnology and Energy -LEPABE University of Porto
• IPMA - Instituto Portuguese do Mar e Atmosfera

Since 2009, the University of Evora through the CREATE - Center for Sci-Tec Research in Earth System andEnergy - (formerly ICT and CGE) has been the only Portuguese-associated partner of the ACTRIS projects (ACTRIS, ACTRIS2, ACTRIS-PPP). Only in 2015, the Portuguese research institutions started to organize themselves as a consortium and nowadays the Portuguese ACTRIS community is discussing with the decision-makers the setup of the consortium. Following a request from the National Science Foundation (FCT), in 2020 the application for the inclusion of the ACTRIS-Portugal consortium (ACTRIS-PT) in the Infrastructures National Roadmap has been submitted. Nowadays, no answer from the institutions.

The Portuguese Science Foundation is partially supporting the national ACTRIS activities of the associatedpartners.

National Contact Person: Daniele Bortoli, Institute of Earth Sciences – University of Evora
E-mail: db@uevora.pt