This document outlines the agenda for the CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Final Meeting on September 26-27, 2013 in Barcelona, Spain. Day 1 will cover topics like CIRCLE-2 projects, knowledge exchange in mountain areas, and adaptation efforts in the Pyrenees and Carpathians. Working groups will discuss improving knowledge sharing and cooperation in mountain regions. Day 2 will cover climate change in the Himalayas and integrating stakeholder needs with scientific knowledge through effective science-practice interactions. The CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain sub-network funded research projects on climate change impacts and adaptation in European mountain areas.

1. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network
Markus Leitner
Environment Agency Austria
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Final Meeting
Date: 26.-27.09.2013
Venue: Catalan Government, Barcelona, Spain

2. 2
AGENDA and SCOPE
Day 1 Morning
 CIRCLE-2
 CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network – two of the four Projects
 EURAS-CLIMPACT
 CAMELEON
 Outcomes and spreading of results
 SECALP Project
 C3-Alps Project – Capitalising climate change adaptation
knowledge

3. 3
AGENDA and SCOPE
Day 1 afternoon:
 Alpstar Project
 Adaptation in the Pyrenees
 Carpathian efforts in climate change adaptation
 Working Group 1 – Knowledge exchange, knowledge
sharing and Cooperation in MOUNTain areas
 How to improve knowledge sharing?
 Key areas of cooperation?
 Priorities in the upcoming 5-10 years?

4. 4
AGENDA and SCOPE
Day 2:
 Climate change and adaptation in the himalayas
 CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Sub-Network – two of the four Projects
 ARNICA
 ChangingRISKS
 Working Group 2 – Integrating Stakholders needs and
scientific knowledge production – Science-Practice Interface
 What are productive science-practice interactions?
 What makes science-practice interactions effective?
 What are key lessons you learned?

5. 5
CIRCLE – FP6 ERA-Net
Coordination Action 2005-2009
Three joint calls & 15 funded projects
EU FP7 ERA-Net
Coordination & Support Action
May 2010 - April 2014
≈ 2 MEuros
20 Partners + 14 Contributing
Partners
Coordination: FFCUL - Portugal
Background: CIRCLE and CIRCLE-2

6. 6
I. Coordinate European CCIVA research funding at the
transnational scale
II. Facilitate transfer of research outcomes
III. Share experiences and lessons learnt on
• CCIVA research funding/management
• Development of national/regional Adaptation practices
IV. Encourage international cooperation with non-
European countries
:the VISION

7. 7
1. Establish a research funding network that fosters
responses to policy-relevant CCIVA questions
2. Facilitate cooperation across European CCIVA research
programmes and institutions
3. Promote the alignment of national and regional CCIVA
agendas under common strategic research and policy areas
– e.g. support of NAS via joint research
4. Fund joint initiatives and joint calls on CCIVA research
5. Share knowledge in support to the EC & our members
:the OBJECTIVES

8. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain
Mountain research was seen as an important topic for several
European countries and their research programmes
Austria developed this group of interested funders further top get to
the call in 2009
 increase knowledge of options, premises and barriers for climate
change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation (CCIVA)
 including the relationship between adaptation and mitigation in
mountain areas.
 Special emphasis has to be laid on the involvement of decision
makers / developers and relevant stakeholders.
EAA – Climate Change Adaptation Platform
(www.klimawandelanpassung.at,
support of the NAS development,
Interface between science and policy

9. 9
Acronym Name
ARNICA
Assessment of Risks on transportation
Networks resulting from slope Instability
and Climate change in the Alps
EURAS-
CLIMPACT
Impact of climate change and related
glacier hazards and mitigation strategies
in the European Alps, Swedish Lapland
and the Tien Shan Mountains, Central
Asia
Changing
RISKS
Changing pattern of landslide risks as
response to global changes in mountain
areas.
CAMELEON
CArbon dynamics in Mountain
Ecosystems: analyzing Landscape-
scale Effects Of aNthropogenic changes
(climate and land-use)
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Projects

10. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach:
 CIRCLE-2 webpage - http://www.circle-era.eu/np4/169.html
 Kick-Off Meeting Chambery, February 2011
 Policy Brief and Minutes
 French Webpage - http://www.circlemontagne.fr/
 Presentation at the International Symposium on CLIMATE
CHANGE IN HIGH MOUNTAIN REGIONS From understanding
of the past towards modelling of the future
 Participation at the Public event "Why we care about
mountains - from the Alps and the Carpathians to the Hindu-
Kush and Himalaya region"

11. CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Outreach:
 CIRCLE-2 Mid-Term Meeting, March 2012, Innsbruck
Policy Brief and Minutes
 MRI Meeting, April 21st - MRI Key Contact Workshop prior to
the EGU Meeting 2012
 International MOUNTain Day 2012, 11 December - Climate
change and the need for adaptation
 Swiss-Austrian Mountain Days Meeting , Mittersill June 2013
 CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Final Meeting, September 2013,
Barcelona
 Policy Brief and Minutes

12. From science to decisions
Creating and maintaining dialogue
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Group

13. Social Dinner – La Mary Serria
CIRCLE-2 MOUNTain Group