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Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Duration
: 2025-05-01 - 2027-12-31
LTSER 5 supports the implementation of the European eLTER infrastructure. The eLTER RI is to be formally established as the ERIC in 2026. The operating institutions of the national eLTER sites and eLTSER platforms and their financial funder (largely the federal ministries) are required to contribute concerted Austrian positions to the ongoing eLTER RI detailed planning and its implementation and to consolidate their network of sites to such an extent that it can be incorporated into the eLTER RI. To make this possible, the organization of the national eLTER RI process was embedded in LTER Austria in 2020 and defined by statutes. This pursues the following key objectives:
● Structuring the formation of opinions on eLTER design and services in the areas of responsibility of the ministries concerned (bottom-up, site-responsible expert view)
● Coordination of (1) the technical contributions of site-operating institutions and scientific teams with (2) strategic aspects from the institutional management level (top-down, management, directorates, rectorates)
● Creation of a platform for national opinion and strategy formation
● Interface between opinion and strategy formation of the site coordinations and their institutional representatives with the formal representation of Austria in the European eLTER ESFRI process
● Time- and cost-efficient representation of Austria in the eLTER Interim Council as the central decision-making body for the design and implementation of the eLTER RI
Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Duration
: 2025-06-01 - 2026-05-31
Currently, large parts of the global population lack access to the basic services for a dignified life (Kikstra et al. 2021, Rammelt et al. 2021). At the same time, global resource use surges, driving climate change and biodiversity loss (UNEP 2019, 2024). This overuse is primarily driven by high-income nations which surpass their fair ecological share (Fanning et al. 2022) by importing resources from and pollution to low-income countries (Dorninger et al. 2021; Bruckner et al. 2023). The applicants have a strong track record in addressing these interconnected issues and, despite different approaches, share common goal: tackling global inequalities to enable dignified lives for all within planetary limits. We aim for the following objectives:
1. Exchange knowledge on concepts, data, and methods for describing access to the services for a dignified life and link it to transgression of planetary resource limits.
2. Conceptualize and operationalize the connections between access to services, planetary limits, and unequal resource trade.
3. Share insights through seminars for students in relevant master's programs.
4. Strengthen cooperation with internal and external partners.
Research project (§ 26 & § 27)
Duration
: 2025-04-01 - 2027-03-31
COIN 2.0 plans to comprehensively update and expand the analysis of costs of inaction in the climate crisis, which were systematically recorded for Austria for the first time in COIN 1.0 in 2014. An additional focus will be on the social costs and their distribution among different groups of people, as well as on linking these costs to the national strategy for adaptation to climate change. The analyses of the impacts on human health and the healthcare system, natural hazards and disaster management, water supply, agriculture and food security, forestry and the protective function of forests will be carried out under the leadership of five BOKU institutes.