ICOS member countries
ICOS is an intergovernmental organisation which receives funding from its Member and Observer countries through annual membership contributions, and through host contributions towards specific facilities in ICOS. The station networks are funded by different national agencies.
ICOS has a complex financial structure. The revenues for the observational stations are organised in the National Networks with a mosaic of funding from national funding agencies and host institutions. The Central Facilities and the European Research Infrastructure Consortium, ERIC institutions (Head Office and Carbon Portal) receive revenues through host premium contributions and ERIC contributions.
This page lists funders and participating institutes per country.
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Belgium
- Belgian Science Policy Office (BELSPO)
- Flanders Marine Institute
- Ghent University (UGent)
- Research Foundation – Flanders
- Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
- Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
- Service Public de Wallonie (SPW)
- University of Antwerp
- University of Liege
- Université catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain)
Czech Republic
Denmark
Finland
France
- Agro-ParisTech – Paris Institute of Technology for Life, Food and Environmental Sciences
- Aix-Marseille University
- Bordeaux-Sciences-Agro
- French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA)
- French Geological Survey (BRGM)
- French Meteorological Institute
- French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food, and Environment (INRAE)
- French National Museum of Natural History
- French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (ANDRA)
- French Polar Institute (IPEV)
- French Research Institute for Development (IRD)
- French Space Agency (CNES)
- Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
- Montpellier SupAgro, International Centre for Higher Education in Agricultural Sciences
- National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland)
- The National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS; INSU and INEE)
- University of Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)
- University of Avignon
- University of Clermont-Ferrand
- University of Crete, Heraklion (Greece)
- University of French West Indies and Guiana
- University of Grenoble-Alpes
- University of La Paz, Bolivia
- University of La Réunion Island
- University of Lorraine
- University of Montpellier
- University of Orléans
- University Paris-Saclay
- University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
- University Paul Valéry of Montpellier III
- University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne
- University Sorbonne, Paris
- University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)
Germany
- Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI)
- Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
- Forschungszentrum Jülich (FZJ)
- Dresden University of Technology
- GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research
- Georg-August-University Göttingen
- German Weather Service Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD)
- Heidelberg University
- Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig (UFZ)
- Helmholtz Center Hereon
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
- Landesbetrieb Forst Brandenburg
- Max-Planck-Institute for Biogeochemistry (MPI)
- The Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW)
- Thünen Institute
- Umweltbundesamt (UBA)
- University of Freiburg
- University of Münster
- Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences
Hungary
Ireland
Italy
- Agenzia regionale protezione ambiente (ARPA)
- Autonomous Province of Bolzano – South Tyrol
- Brescia University - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
- Council for Agricultural Research and the Analysis of the Agrarian Economy (CREA)
- Edmund Mach Foundation (FEM)
- Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC)
- Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
- D'Annunzio University of Chieti–Pescara
- Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development (ENEA)
- Italian Research Council (CNR), Dipartimento Scienze del Sistema Terra e Tecnologie per l’Ambiente
- Ministry of Education, Universities and Research, Department for the universities and higher education establishments in art, music and dance
- National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics (OGS)
- Research on Energy Systems – RSE S.p.A
- The University of Genoa
- The University of Padova
- The University of Sassari
- The University of Udine
- University of Tuscia (UNITUS)
Netherlands
Norway
- Centre for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO)
- Institute for Marine Research (IMR)
- NORCE Norwegian Research Centre
- Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU)
- Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA)
- Norwegian Institute of Bioeconomy Research (NIBIO)
- Norwegian Polar Institute
- Royal Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment, Department for Nature Management
- The Research Council of Norway
- University of Bergen
Spain
- Government of the Canary Islands, Regional Ministry of Ecological Transition and Energy
- Loro Parque Foundation
- Mediterranean Center for Environmental Studies (CEAM)
- Ministry of Science, Innovation and University (MICIU)
- National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA)
- National Research Council (CSIC), Arid Zones Experimental Station (EEZA)
- National Research Council (CSIC), Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO)
- National Research Council (CSIC), Spectro-radiometry and Environmental Remote Sensing Laboratory (SpecLab)
- Oceanic Platform of the Canary Islands (PLOCAN)
- State Meteorological Agency of Spain (AEMET)
- University of Granada (UGR)
- University of Valladolid (UVA)
QUIMA group, Instituto de Oceanografía y Cambio Global – University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC)
Sweden
Switzerland
Empa - Swiss Federal Laboratories for Material Sciences and Technology
- ETH Zurich
- Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)
- Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology MeteoSwiss
- International Foundation High Altitude Research Stations Jungfraujoch and Gornergrat
- State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI)
- Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL)
- University of Basel
- University of Bern