LIFE - ENVEUROPE LIFE + 2008

Progetto LIFE PLUS 2008: LIFE 08 ENV/IT/000399 “ENVEUROPE”
Environmental quality and pressure assessment across Europe: the LTER network as an integrated and shared system for ecosystem monitoring”

EnvEurope (www.enveurope.eu), is a Life + (2008) Project, coordinated by CNR ISMAR. The project started in January 2010 and will last 4 years; it involves 11 Countries and 16 Beneficiaries.

The project has been designed and will develop within the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research nerwork) Europe network (LTER-Europe: www.lter-europe.net).

EnvEurope has been ideated and planned in the conceptual and operative context of SEIS (Shared Environmental Information System; http://ec.europa.eu/environment/seis/) and will contribute to the development of the GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security; www.gmes.info) initiative.

It aims to: i) select and provide data, information and ecological indicators concerning the long-term quality trends of terrestrial, marine, freshwater ecosystems at European scale; ii) select and collect data able to provide information on environmental quality and drivers in respect of indicators and methodologies shared and applied in the main European networks (LTER Europe,, EIONET, EU Forest Focus & ICPs of UNECE/CLRTAP/WGE, Natura2000, etc.); iii) reorganise the E-LTER network on the basis of suitable sites, reflecting environmental, ecological, political and economic stratification of Europe.