EUMETNET's Mission and Vision

Our Mission is to help our Members to develop and share their individual and joint capabilities through cooperation programmes that enable enhanced networking, interoperability, optimisation and integration within Europe; and also to enable European bodies to use these capabilities effectively.

Our Vision is that by 2020 EUMETNET will have enabled our Members to provide a cost efficient, world-class, shared infrastructure that is significantly more interoperable and integrated with shared basic services. These improvements will enable our Members to better fulfil their official duties, enhance their individual capabilities and provide a basis for Members to deliver, collectively, joint public information services at the level of the EU and its Agencies.

The Members of EUMETNET have also set out a number of strategic goals to be delivered by 2020. These are summarised as follows:

• To extend the EUMETNET composite observing system to take account of additional user requirements.
• To create from existing national climate data sets a high resolution, harmonised, gridded climate data set for Europe that will be updated in near real time.
• To support Members in ensuring their staff (especially weather forecasters) have the necessary skills to enable them to deliver the changing needs of their customers now and in 2020.
• To support Members in identifying collaborative projects to enhance their weather forecasting capabilities, building on the services and outputs of the European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) and the various European weather forecast modelling consortia.
• To work with Members to provide capabilities necessary to support their development of climate services in the context of the Global Framework for Climate Services (GFCS).
• To work with the EU, its Agencies, and other European organisations to enable them to get the most out of the capabilities of EUMETNET and its Members.

The EUMETNET strategy and goals are delivered by the various programmes, projects and activities established by the EUMETNET Assembly. The current phase of programmes will come to an end in 2012 and a new phase, aligned to the 2020 goals, will be established from the 1st January 2013.