1. Title: Climate change impacts on Arctic economy and society Acronym: CLIMARES Coordinator: Ola M. Johannessen, Deputy Coordinator: Stein Sandven Project manager: Lasse H. Pettersson Nansen Environmental and Remote Sensing Center (NERSC) Preparation of an integrated proposal to FP7 Environment and Climate programme (FP7-OCEAN-2010) Deadline 14 Jan 2010 Partners contributions delivered by 20 December 2009 EU contribution: 11 MEuro Proposed duration: 3 years

2. Scope The proposal is for a large-scale integrated project consisting of multidisciplinary research in the Arctic related to climate and environment, transport, fisheries, oil and gas, other resource exploitation, tourism, economic impact, risk assessment, social sciences and geopolitical issues.

3. WP structure

4. Partners versus WP

5. Tentative schedule WPsYear 1Year 2Year 3WPYear 1Year 2Year 3 WP100 WP200 WP300 WP400 WP500 WP600 WP700

6. Part B 1.Scientific and technical quality relevant for the call Concept and objectives Progress beyond state-of-the-art S & T methodology and related work plan 2. Implementation: management, participants, consortium as a whole, resources to be committed 3. Impact: dissemination and exploitation 4. Ethical issues

7. Evaluation criteria