Specific Tasks: The Research Coordinator shall address the challenges listed in the ESA Earth Observation strategy and the Future Earth 2025 Vision. This is broken down into tasks supporting Future Earth, tasks supporting ESA and tasks supporting the wider Earth Observations (EO) community: Support to Future Earth This will be done by linking projects and programmes within ESA with the Global Research Projects and Knowledge Action Networks of Future Earth. ESA’s Climate Change Initiative programme and Earth Observation Envelope Programme offer a number of ways to link Future Earth and ESA through joint projects and activities, designed to maximise the use of ESA data and further the aims of Future Earth. The Research Coordinator will advise on where links to the Global Research