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PEER History
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On the 10th of August 2001 in Helsinki five leading national
environmental research centres in Europe decided to found the
”Partnership for European Environmental Research" (PEER) with the aim
of combining their forces in order to follow a joint strategy in
environmental sciences and to enhance research on ecological
sustainability. This co-operation was confirmed by a Framework
Agreement signed on the 25th of June 2002 in Roskilde.
The
PEER members are public financed research centres with scientific
autonomy that are dedicated to environmental research with a
predominant focus on interactions between man and the environment. The
PEER centres are characterised by their interdisciplinary expertise,
including a wide range of natural and social scientific disciplines,
covering all fields of environmental sciences.
Presently, PEER
has seven member organisations employing together 4700 persons and
having a combined annual budget of 360 Million Euro. The PEER
institutes have a long-term experience of participation in major
international networks and programmes and are actively involved in a
considerable number of running and planned projects of the EU RTD
Framework Programmes.
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