AnaEE is a research infrastructure for experimental manipulation of managed and unmanaged terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. It will strongly support scientists in their analysis, assessment and forecasting of the impact of climate and other global changes on the services that ecosystems provide to society.
AnaEE will support European scientists and policymakers to develop solutions to the challenges of food security and environmental sustainability, with the aim of stimulating the growth of a vibrant bioeconomy. AnaEE will accomplish this mission by building permanent and substantial links among researchers, science managers, policy makers, public and private sector innovators, and citizens.
AnaEE (Infrastructure for Analysis and Experimentation on Ecosystems) is part of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures Roadmap (2010) as a new distributed EU infrastructure for ecosystem research. It entered the Preparatory Phase on November 2012. The consortium is currently composed of 13 partners from 10 countries. AnaEE's building blocks will include state of the art in natura and in vitro experimental platforms equipped with the latest technology, associated with sophisticated analytical and modeling platforms coupled to observation and monitoring sites that will provide indispensable calibration and validation of datasets throughout Europe.
AnaEE's preparatory phase is co-funded by the EU under the European Commission's 7th Framework Programme from 2012 to 2016.
This film includes an extract from 'Ecotron, une grande infrastructure pour l'écologie' by Marcel Dalaise © CNRS Images. Other footage and participant interviews thanks to:
- INRA (French National Institute for Agricultural Research), France;
- CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research), France;
- BBSRC (Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council), UK;
- CzechGlobe (Global Change Research Centre), Czech Republic;
- University of Antwerp, Belgium;
- Rothamsted Research, UK;
- NEON (National Ecological Observatory Network), USA;
- University of Helsinki, Finland.
Thanks also to:
- Bioforsk (Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research), Norway;
- DTU (Technical University of Denmark), Denmark;
- ITU (Istanbul Technical University), Turkey;
- Fondazione Edmund Mach, Italy;
- Umeå University, Sweden;
- INRA Transfert, France;
- NIVA (Norwegian Institute for Water Research), Norway;
- The region of Languedoc-Roussillon (France), for the use of its offices in Brussels.
Production: Tipik Communication Agency.
