Podcast: European Polar Board’s Professor Carlo-Alberto Ricci on the EPB’s works and INFRAPOLAR

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The Chairman of the European Polar Board (EPB) Professor  Carlo-Alberto Ricci speaks about the EPB’s achievement in 2007 and its plan for 2008. He also discusses the EPB’s plan to launch INFRAPOLAR, an effort to network European Polar Research stations in the Arctic and Antarctic for the provision of research services in the area of climate and Environmental sciences.

Professor Ricci was attending the European Polar Summit in Rome on 7th November 2007. The event 'The Future of European Polar Research - Towards an enhanced coordination framework of programmes and infrastructures in the European Research Area' was organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF) European Polar Board and the European Polar Consortium. It marked the launch of two major strategic documents that present updated overview of research infrastructures efforts in the Arctic and Antarctic, and assessment of the current management polar programmes in 19 European countries.

The report 'The Landscape of European Polar Research; Volume 1: An assessment if current strategic management, polar programme definition and processes' details the current status of strategic processes, management practices, investment, evaluation and granting procedures of the 27 government agencies from 19 European countries that are currently partners in the European Polar Consortium.

This second publication 'The Landscape of European Polar Research; Volume II: European polar capacity – an overview of research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic' will provide a strategic overview and portfolio of European polar research infrastructures in the Arctic and Antarctic controlled and owned by European countries including the Russian Federation and Greenland Home Rule.

The publications could be viewed at
europolar.esf.org/index.php

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