Project, 2025
NextGenCarbon
Next Generation Modelling of Terrestrial Carbon Cycle by assimilation of in situ campaigns and Earth Observations
NextGenCarbon is a Horizon Europe project funded under call HORIZON-CL5-2024-D1-01-07 (Grant Agreement 101184989). It started on 1 January 2025 and runs for 60 months, until 31 December 2029. The project is coordinated by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet, SLU), and the consortium includes 22 partners.
NextGenCarbon develops the next generation of terrestrial carbon cycle models by combining Earth Observation data, in situ measurement campaigns, vegetation demographic modelling and data assimilation techniques. The aim is a better-informed assessment of carbon stocks and fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems, to track whether European ecosystems remain carbon sinks under changing climate, land use and management, and to support the update of global and European carbon budgets and EU climate policy.
The role of geoLAB
The University of Florence takes part in NextGenCarbon with geoLAB, the Laboratory of Forest Geomatics of the Department of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI).