The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), as the Entrusted Entity for the Copernicus Climate Change Service, invites tenders for the support and implementation of coordination activities with national administrations in line with ECMWF actions and plans for the Copernicus Climate Change Service user uptake amongst EU Member States, Norway and Iceland (“Countries” from now on), in line with the specific mandate of C3S as a climate data service and existing and new policy requirements at national and EU level.

ECMWF intends to award a single multi-annual framework contract (maximum 48 months) for the support and implementation of coordination activities with national administrations.

The objectives of this activity are:

1. To facilitate dialogues amongst all 29 countries with the aim to raise awareness on the C3S service offer and aimed evolution, to discuss gaps and to enhance cohesion on the applicability of C3S data and products at both national and transboundary level;

2. To co-design, together with national administrations and knowledge centres, topics for grant actions.

The coordination office will also support C3S Evaluation Quality Control (EQC) activities with the aim of providing inputs for service evolution, identifying on-demand needs for trainings and use cases as well as workflows and applications, implemented by the C3S Sectoral Information System.

While ECMWF is responsible for the overarching coordination of the office, the Contractor shall support ECMWF with concrete implementation actions.