NextGenCarbon Project Kicks Off Across Europe

With a virtual meeting spanning across Europe, the Horizon Europe project NextGenCarbon officially launched its five-year research agenda at the start of 2025.

Titled “Next Generation Modelling of the Terrestrial Carbon Cycle by Assimilation of In-situ Campaigns and Earth Observations”, the project supports the EU’s climate and sustainability goals by advancing how we understand and quantify greenhouse gas (GHG) balances.

Coordinated by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, NextGenCarbon brings together a consortium of 22 international partners. The team will develop an integrated modeling framework that combines improved ecosystem data, advanced simulation tools, scenario projections, and targeted policy support. This approach aims to close critical knowledge gaps that currently limit our ability to forecast and evaluate progress toward the EU’s climate targets.

A key component led by LMU Munich will focus on refining estimates of CO₂ emissions and removals related to land use activities. These estimates are essential for the annual global carbon budgets and increasingly relevant for validating national GHG inventories.

As part of the project, LMU has opened a postdoctoral research position in terrestrial carbon modeling. More information on the position can be foundhere.