A European INFRASTRUCTURE

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 (3.5 years) and the Construction Phase will commence in 2014. The consortium is composed of 13 partners from 10 countries.

AnaEE will set-up a distributed and coordinated network of state of the art in natura and in vitro experimental platforms equipped with the latest technology. They will be associated with sophisticated analytical and modeling platforms coupled to networks of instrumented observation and monitoring sites that will provide indispensable calibration and validation of datasets throughout Europe. The network will predict in a precise manner the response of the main continental ecosystems to environmental and land use changes.

ROADMAP:

• 2012-2016 : Preparatory phase
• 2014-2018 : Construction phase
• 2018 onwards : Implementation phase

ExpeER (Experimentation of Ecosystem Research)forms the building blocks of the AnaEE distributed infrastructure by federating and structuring key existing experimental (and observational) infrastructures in ecosystem research in Europe.  AnaEE will enable many of the key infrastructures involved in ExpeER to be further enhanced and upgraded complemented by the development of  new sites and facilities so as to build an ambitious, state-of –the art Ecosystem Research Infrastructure with expert services at a pan-European Level.